A Digital Archive Webography

This is a draft of a resource for the Scripps Digital Archives course – I’d be happy to add your favorite digital archive to the list!

Core III: Creating Archives Digital Webography (+)

Glossary of archival terms
About the Human Genome Project
Aggregated 18th century resources
Archimedes Palimpsest (history of math and digital imaging technology)
Archive Grid: Explore the World’s Archives
Archives Next blog: “The problem with the scholar as ‘archivist’…”
Archives of the Earth (description of geo-history)
Ashes2Art (art history/archeology)
Caribbean Through a Lens
Casebooks Project (Medicine)
Citizen Archive
Day of Digital Archives Blog
Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement
Earth Data Analysis Center
Earth Simulator Archive (describes, but doesn’t do)
English Ballad Broadside Archive
Feminist Memory: “Digital Feminist Archive”
Galaxy Zoo: Hubble
Gaming Archive (article on the archive at UMich)
Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
Gender News article on Chicana feminist archives
Hiroshima Archive
Historic American Papers
Historic Iowa Children’s Diaries
Images from the History of Medicine
Immigrant Archive Project
Immigration Records
Lesley Hall’s “Gender and Archives”
Madison’s LGBT Community, 1960’s to present (oral history project)
Medici Archive Project (art, politics, science)
NASA Earth Observatory
New York’s Historic Menus (see what was for dinner)
Occupy Archive
Old Bailey Online (law)
Old Weather: Our Weather’s Past
One: National Gay and Lesbian Archive
Reading Archives Blog
Ronald Schuchard’s “Excavating the Imagination: Archival Research and the Digital Revolution”
South Asian American Digital Archive
Tales of Things
The Black Archives of Mid-America
The Chronicle: “Gaming the Archive”
The Cornell University Hip Hop Archive
The Internet Archive
The National Archives
The Suppressed Histories Archive: real women, global vision
Theorizing the Queer Archive
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Who Speaks for the Negro Archival Collection

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