Preserving the League of Nations digital archives
In 2017, the UN Library & Archives Geneva launched a project to digitize and provide online access to the League of Nations Archives, part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World, to researchers around the world. Long-term digital preservation of this data (approximately 15million images) is essential and was therefore included in the project concept. We ensured project delivery at scale and under tight pressures, including challenges posed by COVID-19. Consequently, we tightly controlled costs, project’s scalability, and data accessibility. We ensured the files can be accessible as soon as they are ready and even before we developed the final access portal.
UK Web Archive: celebrating 15 years
The UK Web Archive celebrated its 15 year anniversary in 2020. From its beginnings, UKWA has drawn attention to the value of communication on the web, the high risk of loss for this content, and the need for a national programme to preserve digital communications. UKWA has made a sustained and powerful public case for the preservation of born digital communication and publication in the UK, and has worked collaboratively with libraries and other institutions around the world to support web archiving.
Amplifying change: A history of the Atlantic Philanthropies on the island of Ireland
‘Amplifying change: A history of the Atlantic Philanthropies on the island of Ireland’ (hereafter ‘Amplifying Change’) is a collaborative project between Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), based in Dublin, and the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) at Cornell University Library, New York. The collaboration aims to build and disseminate a vibrant, sustainable, and openly accessible digital archive and online exhibition of the impact of the Atlantic Philanthropies grantees on the island of Ireland, consisting of select business records and new oral histories that reflect Atlantic’s grantmaking philosophy, approach, and impact in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.