A former member of a student-run university broadcasting station at Kyonggi University in South Korea has developed the VOKU (Voice of Kyonggi University) Archive, a digitization project including detailed documentation of a workflow for LLM-assisted name redaction to preserve the privacy of students and staff whose names appear on the over 66,000 cue sheets used ...

Chinese Red Record documents anti-Chinese lynchings, riots, massacres, and expulsions in the American West between 1850 and 1915. Created by Kevin Hegg as a companion to his dissertation work conducted at James Madison University, The Chinese Red Record: Western Lynch Law and the Nationalization of Racial Terror, 1853–1915, the archive takes its title from Ida ...

Archive Stories is an open-access website about working with creative and non-traditional archives. It is curated by Sara Salem and Mai Taha, designed by Frederick Kannemeyer, and funded by the London School of Economics and Political Science. Rather than offering a new definition of the archive, the curators focus on archiving as a creative practice ...

Old Toronto turns more than 37,000 archival photographs from the City of Toronto Archives and Toronto Public Library into walking tours of the city. The tool builds on OldTO, the geocoded photo map originally created by Sidewalk Labs and later revived by Back Lane Studios. While OldTO showed what was photographed in a given place, ...

The Prison Data Explorer is a project of Trans Pride Initiative (TPI), a Texas nonprofit, that presents live data from TPI’s correspondence with trans and queer people in prison, primarily in Texas, but also in other state and federal prison systems. The Explorer charts more than 28,000 letters exchanged with over 2,000 people, including the ...

OutHistory is a public history website dedicated to generating, presenting, and promoting high-quality, evidence-based LGBTQ+ historical research for broad audiences, with a non-exclusive focus on the United States and Canada. Founded by Jonathan Ned Katz, the platform’s core mission is to foster broad community participation in the process of discovering and writing LGBTQ+ histories, prioritizing under-represented ...

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) recently launched new online tools to make fragmented archival materials about Japanese war crimes in Asia and the Pacific during World War II more accessible to students, scholars, and the public. Led by historians, librarians, and GIS specialists, the initiative brings together trial records, ...

Save Our Signs (SOS) is a rapid-response digital archive working to preserve U.S. National Park Service interpretive signs and exhibits at risk of removal under new federal mandates. The initiative began as an urgent response to Executive Order 14253 and Secretary Order 3431, which directed NPS sites to review and replace materials seen as “inappropriately ...

The Post45 Data Collective announces a new dataset, “Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction.” According to the website, “this dataset contains metadata for 2.5k English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with the year it was released and the year it takes place.” From the website: The Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction dataset collects ...

The Internet Archive has released a new digital collection, the Drug Policy Alliance Library. An Internet Archive blog, authored by Caralee Adams, describes the source of the collection and the impetus for digitization: For many years, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) maintained a large library of books on drug use and policy at its New York ...