Here are a few items of note for digital curation that we had our eyes on this week:

• Last year, an article brought greater public attention to hundreds of photos by African American photographer John Johnson, who made hundreds of still photographs of immigrants and African Americans in early 20th century Lincoln, Nebraska. Now, a Facebook group devoted to training members in colorizing old photos, has taken up a project to bring new life to an incredible set of images. More at “Dignity brought to life,” by Ann Schmidt at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5454717/Colorized-Nebraska-photos.html.
• Archivists work to document and preserve artifacts and mementos from the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/Preserving-Mementos-From-the-Florida-Shooting-476212353.html.
• Sri Lanka’s National Film Corporation (NF) is organizing an effort to allow film archivists to participate in workshops on digitally in order to preserve endangered film and “preserve and restore Sri Lanka’s cinema productions of yesteryear.” Reports Susitha Fernando, the workshops coincided with an event to screen a restored and digitized version of Lester James Peries‘s film, Rekava (1956).
• Library Journal announced its “Movers and Shakers” for 2018, including Susan Barnum, who is recognized for affecting “millions of people” through editing Wikipedia. Barnum has written hundreds of wikipedia articles, including many on people and topics in women’s history, as well as items of importance for the El Paso area. Read the article at https://lj.libraryjournal.com/2018/03/people/movers-shakers-2018/susan-barnum-movers-shakers-2018-advocates/. Barnum is a librarian in residence for the Women in Red project on Wikipedia.

Here are a few items of note for digital curation that we had our eyes on this week:

• Mental Floss brought attention to a video that introduced news viewers in 1984 to the personal use of email.

Here are a few items of note for digital curation that we had our eyes on this week:

• Researchers gathered together a large amount of data in what might be called a digital curation exercise, put together a super map. “Using the Best Data Possible, We Set Out to Find the Middle of Nowhere” (Washington Post, Feb 20, 2018) “The huge team — 22 authors are credited — spent years building a globe-spanning map outlining just how long it takes to cross any spot on the planet based on its transportation types, vegetation, slope, elevation and more. Those spots, or pixels, represent about a square kilometer.”
• The iSchool will host a Disability Justice Editing workshop for those interested in related topics and their representation on Wikipedia. If you have time, it would be a great space in which to share the skills that you are building around Wikipedia, as well as improve (curate!) digital resources on disability justice. The workshop is scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, March 11, click here for full details.
• Looking back a few weeks, to the death of John Perry Barlow on Feb 7, the Economist reprinted an interview with Barlow from 1996, and make reference to Barlow’s “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” (1996).
• Details about the Endangered Data Week are now up: http://mith.umd.edu/research/endangered-data-week/.

Here are a few items of note for digital curation that we had our eyes on this week:

• Endangered Data Week will happen on the week of Feb 26, and the UMD libraries will sponsor a series of related events to raise awareness about the challenges and needs of endangered, digital data: see more here on the Endangered Data site.
• Digital preservation researchers will explore and develop an “emulation as a service” platform, which will allow for the access to obsolete software environments and packages, with the hopes of providing access to digital archives. See more here from the YaleNews. (h/t Lauren W.)
• Older news from January, but still notable: the PTAB (Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Audity Body), which is situated as the official ISO 16363 certifying body (i.e., the TRAC auditors), reports it has completed its first certification of a trusted repository: http://www.iso16363.org/first-repository-in-the-world-has-been-awarded-iso-16363-certification/.
• Last Friday, the NEH held an open project directors meeting for those who received grants to work on digital projects in the last year, lots of stuff on Twitter at the hashtag #ODHatTen. Meeting announcement here. Great recap from Jennifer Howard here.
• This week, the Code4Lib conference is happening in DC, you can follow along on Twitter at the hashtag #c4l18.