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Avoiding digital dodos, keeping your work in circulation

Options have increased dramatically in recent years for large-scale digital archiving. Until very recently, the archiving of digital material involved recording onto hard media, such as a DVD or tape, which in turn had to be stored in a physical location. Nowadays, increasing internet bandwidth has led to a growth in companies offering ‘cloud’ storage space on servers connected to the internet (read more)

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Theatricalia – an audiences' archive

Theatricalia is history being reassembled as audiences and participants piece together a complex mosaic of theatre performances creating a hyperlinked web of plays, performance dates, actors, venues, observations and associated media; flyers and photographs. The site started in 2008 as an experiment to piece together the details of performances based on copies of a few performance programmes and has continued to grows as more people dust off their personal collections and upload them. The site can create an over complex set of connections as you move from a play to an actor and onto a new venue, while skipping through five decades but the model sets out an interesting area to explore. (read more)

Image: example theatre flyer, The 1962 RSC Season Souvenir
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Creating an in-house archive

While organizations with relatively smaller amounts of digital content can simply put their content on their website, larger amounts of content may require more specific archiving technology for storing, cataloging, and making the content available through a website (read more)

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• Open Archiving - the practice of creating archives that are partially or entirely composed of content submitted by those outside of the organization that has set up the archive.
  
• WikiMedia
  
• How to get your site more searchable
  
• Examples of RFO's with archives