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Data Lifeboats at the XVI International Conference of the Image

Our second stop on the European conference circuit was Paris, for the Sixteenth International Conference on The Image where George and Tori shared the release of Data Lifeboat and the importance of citizen-driven collecting.

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International Conference of Cyber-Humanities Recap

Tori shares her reflections on a recent conference in Florence, where she detailed our progress on the Data Lifeboat alpha alongside the value of collecting from social media for heritage practitioners.

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Looking for Daybooks in the Archives

Our research lead Fattori McKenna sifted through Flickr Commons for daybooks throughout history to consider what can be gained by keeping a Flickr Foundation daybook.

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Flickr Foundation goes Dutch!

Tori shares her highlights from Flickr Foundation's big week in the Netherlands talking data care and digital commons

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Future Memories Symposium: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World

Tori shares her reflections from the Rijksmuseum x World Press Photo Forum symposium in May

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‘Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory’ Reflections

Tori shares her reflections and ruminations from the Born-Digital Collections conference at Senate House, London

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A Prehistory of the Digital Daybook

An introduction to the rituals of record-keeping that have influenced our daybook project

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Zoology specimens, Australasian Antarctic Expedition Reports, 1911-1914

From Desiderata to READMEs: The case for a C.A.R.E.-full Data Lifeboat Pt. II

The second of a two-part blog post detailing possible prompts for Data Lifeboat creators to encourage ethical and informed collecting

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From Desiderata to READMEs: The case for a C.A.R.E.-full Data Lifeboat Pt. I

The first of a two-part blog post detailing the origins and approaches to ethical archiving in the Data Lifeboat tool.

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A Phoenix in Paris: Data Lifeboats for User-Generated Histories

The case for citizen-driven collections in enhancing our understanding of contemporary events.

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Marcelle Ferns with nose guard and sun glasses, 1941

Field Notes #01: Lughnasadh

Lead Researcher, Tori, pins down her methodology for the upcoming Safe Harbor Network design workshops with institutional users

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Welcome, Fattori!

We have a new Lead Researcher in the team, joining us to enhance our approach to our Data Lifeboat initiative.

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When past meets predictive

Working ‘field notes’ as a snapshot in time facing computed image generation.

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