Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from September, 2025

A Beginner's Guide to Archiving History

 You can become a digital archivist!    If you visit a museum or national park, take photos of displays, written information, plaques that may come under contention later. If there are signs about not photographing art or exhibits, respect that  - stick to the words.  Back these up to a cloud service, or physical media that does not connect to the internet. Take clear photos.   Use archive websites to find pages removed from the current internet. The Wayback Machine is popular, and GovWayBack focuses on missing pages from government sites.   Libraries do sell old and worn copies of books; Buy some. Hold onto those with information that may come under contention. Take photos - scan them if possible. Look for online file compression tools to zip multiple files into a compressed folder. What about Google Drive?  There are concerns that "certain" files may be deleted or removed. Simply put, I wouldn't trust them to not remove a pdf upload of "Letters ...