SwissInfo: New Swiss foundation to catalogue Jean-Luc Godard’s film archive. “The Jean-Luc Godard Foundation has ambitious goals: to list, preserve and share Godard’s archive. The French-Swiss film director died in 2022, leaving behind works scattered worldwide and the thorny matter of film rights.”

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Fstoppers: The Anxiety of the Archive: The Heavy Burden of Digital Hoarding. “We don’t talk about this enough. The photography community obsesses over gear, technique, and portfolio curation, but we rarely discuss the psychological weight of maintaining a digital archive that grows larger every single year. We treat storage as essentially free, which it is in dollar terms. But the true cost of […]

Fox 5 Atlanta: Bud Smith’s Atlanta archive: 1.2M photos seek a permanent home. “Smith, who will turn 78 in April, has documented a front-row seat to history from the basement of his East Point home. His collection, which includes approximately 1.2 million pictures and 60,000 rolls of film, features some of the nation’s most notable newsmakers.”

Columbia University: Complete Obama Presidency Oral History Archive Is Now Available. “Today, just 10 years after President Barack Obama left office, Columbia University’s Incite Institute opens the full Obama Presidency Oral History archive to the public. This groundbreaking digital archive offers everyone—students, researchers, journalists, and simply the curious—a trove of material for […]

Arizona State University: Time-consuming task of conserving Jane Goodall Institute field notes gets a boost from AI . “Now, a team of ASU faculty, student researchers and AI engineers are exploring ways to transform the handwritten field notes from Tanzania into searchable, analyzable digital data files. This effort will complement and contribute to the new Gombe AI Research Platform, under […]

Salisbury Journal: Dame Vera Lynn’s ‘vast wartime archive’ joins Imperial War Museum collection. “The collection includes Dame Vera’s personal diary from her 1944 tour of India, the contract for her BBC radio show Sincerely Yours, 160 wartime contracts for more than 200 engagements, letters from Dame Vera to her husband Harry Lewis, and items of clothing from her Entertainments National […]

Washington University in St. Louis: Dowd Illustration Research Archive Acquires the Reynold Brown Collection. “The Dowd Illustration Research Archive has acquired the collection of the late artist Reynold Brown. The collection was donated by his family, Luzon and Jim Kahler, and contains ephemera, photographs, prints, and original works of art from throughout Brown’s career. The collection […]