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In a world where digital memories are fleeting, this article highlights the critical role photo managers play in preserving our personal and cultural history for future generations. As digital archivists explore the challenges of saving content across ever-evolving platforms, photo managers are uniquely positioned to ensure that cherished images and stories remain accessible. https://lnkd.in/esekxsCF

The Media Fields Editorial Collective at UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Film and Media Studies welcomes submissions that critically engage the connections between space, media, and archival practice. We seek essays of 1500–2500 words, digital art projects, and interviews from scholars and practitioners alike. Potential submission topics include, but are not limited to: ●      Preservation: Precarity and decay, fragility, physicality, ontologies of the film and media archive and its objects, broadly construed ●      Cataloging: Metadata organization, archival etymology, reparative description and taxonomies, hierarchical data structures ●      Collection management: Power and ethics, restitution and social justice, collections policy, community oversight, institutional and/or community-based funding structures ●      Memory: Personal, collective, historical and/or cultural memories, archival modes of erasure, loss, and silence ●      Curation: Accessibility, community engagement, digital interfaces ●      Provenance: Found footage, orphan films, transnational displacement ●      Archival space: Traditional institutions, digital databases, garages, basements Past Media Fields issues and submission guidelines may be found at mediafieldsjournal.org. Please email all inquiries and submissions to issue co-editors Kelsey Moore and Hannah Garibaldi at submissions@mediafieldsjournal.org by October 31, 2024.

Cloud services like Microsoft's OneDrive (which comes with a Windows subscription) are designed to be redundant, meaning they store your information in multiple data centres through the world. As technology moves on, then cloud servcies adopt a newer storage technology once it becomes cost effective. Barring a geographically widespread catastophe you do not have anything to worry about if you are storing or backing up important files to the cloud. If you aren't then you need to have your own backup strategy in place. That should involve backing up your device(s) manually to a cloud service (free within certain limits) or to an external drive - which you then store away from your primary device, i.e. not the same building. If the primary storage device is your phone then this is all the more important as loss/theft is an ever present risk. Unfortunately most people do not backup data on their phone...

GLAM Workbench update, Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:38:04 +1000 You’ve been collecting and annotating items relating to your research project in a Trove List. You’d like to display the contents of your list as an online exhibition for others to explore. But how? One possible approach is now documented in the Trove Data Guide . I’ve added a tutorial which walks through the process of using a GLAM Workbench notebook to extract and process data from a Trove List, before uploading it to CollectionBuilder to create an instant exhibition... Read more: https://lnkd.in/gKzzngyY

Only 3️⃣ Days Left to Enter! 📸 Attention Bobcats, it's not too late to submit your entry. You still have three days remaining to submit your photographs for the "Culture, Community, and Connection" photo exhibition. Here’s How to Participate: ➡️ Choose images that best represent your cultural journey and community experiences. ➡️ Write a brief description for each photo and save them in a Word document. ➡️ Upload your photos and the document to a OneDrive folder and email the link to our Graduate Assistant, Francis Ametepey (email on flyer) ➡️ You can send us direct message and we will assist you in the entry process ⏳ Time is ticking! Capture, describe, and submit your story to be part of this exciting exhibition. We can't wait to see your creativity and cultural expressions come to life. 🔗 For more details, check the flyer StorytellingMatters

How to create and support a Wikimedia group in Southern Italy, a European region facing economic and structural challenges? That's what we discussed during the Wiki Sud session at Wikimania 2024, where we presented the collective's first steps, the various activities we've carried out, and our ideas for the future. Italy is a country well-known for its outstanding cultural heritage and beautiful landscape, but it also has an invisible fracture between North and South. The economical and human ressources gap between the two sides of the country can be experienced in the frame of Wikimedia activities and community engagement as well. In the Northern regions, that have access to more economical resources and where many of the students and workers emigrate, we can find a lot of active Wikimedia communities, partnerships with institutions including funding, events and meetups, etc. Meanwhile, in the Southern regions, which are facing a huge brain drain and whose population fluctuates according to the flow of holidaymakers, there tends to be fewer contributors, fewer organized groups, and GLAM institutions with whom Wikimedians traditionally build partnerships have access to fewer resources. This leads to less activity on the Wikimedia projects when it comes to the culture, heritage, biographies, languages and landscape of the Southern regions. Faced with this situation, active contributors from the south of the country came together at the Italian WikiCon in Bari in 2023 to create WikiSud (Italy) to activate Wikimedia editors and partnerships in Southern Italy. To be very honest with you, when the proposal got accepted, I became unsure whether the discussion was really worth happening. Should we really come to an international stage and "complain" about our situation, while many Wikimedians struggle much more than us, in countries that are facing much bigger challenges? At the same time, we wanted to disclose the fact that Europe is not just this unite block with easy access to resources and wealth, as it is sometimes perceived from the outside, and that some challenges are definitely shared with Wikimedians from other regions. In the end, this session was a blast! We had many interesting discussions and connections with Wikimedians from other areas of the Mediterranean: Malta, Portugal, Tunisia... we talked about our projects, promised that we would stay in touch and work closer together in the future forming some kind of a Mediterranean connection! Thanks a lot to Ferdinando and Giovanni for running these discussions together, and to everyone who attended and contributed! ➡️ Youtube video: https://lnkd.in/d7XewRmw ➡️ Commons video: https://lnkd.in/dW3X3eTx ➡️ Slides: https://lnkd.in/dxSckFnG

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Building sustainably connected heritage together⁠ ⁠ As a network, we are committed to the preservation, management and accessibility of design and digital culture collections. In doing so, we aim to connect collections sustainably and make them digitally accessible from the source – following the principles of the National Digital Heritage Strategy. To make this possible, we have initiated a large-scale Wikidata project last year. We have been working with over 50 networkpartners to investigate the copyright status of collections. At the same time, data on makers/designers and organizations are being enriched, provided with archive location if possible, and published on Wikidata (Bibi Bodegom & Hanno Lans) so that all individuals and institutions are provided with persistent identifiers. These efforts lead to better insight into collections, enrichment of the ‘Termennetwerk’, and more opportunities for collaboration and reuse in the heritage sector.⁠ ⁠ Partners such as RKD, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, LI-MA – Living Media Art and Design Museum Den Bosch currently contribute to this initiative. Together we are committed to preserving these collections and making them more accessible and visible to a wider audience!⁠ ⁠ Want to know more or do you want to contribute? Contact us at: nadd@nieuweinstituut.nl or read more via this link: https://lnkd.in/gzx-Q5nm