@amaliasl

Archivist by night, PhD by day at @DependencyBonn. #archives #digitization #GlobalDH, Caribbean Jewish history.

 Somewhere and everywhere
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Joined April 2009
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More digitization doesn't mean more access--it means more fragile information at risk. "By empowering libraries and archives legally, culturally, and financially, we can safeguard the public’s ability to maintain access to our cultural history and our digital future." ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Internet Archive
@internetarchive4 Nov 2024
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Read the full report, Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record 🕳️ #VanishingCulture 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/…
The image shows the cover of the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture report. On the left, the words "Vanishing Culture" are prominently displayed in bold, dark font against a neutral background. To the right, a set of cultural artifacts including a VHS tape, an open book, a film reel, a vinyl record, and a web link icon appear to disintegrate into pixels, symbolizing the disappearance of analog and digital media. Below these icons is a pixelated computer hand cursor pointing to the word "SAVE," emphasizing the need for preservation. The Internet Archive's logo is placed in the bottom-right corner.

ALT The image shows the cover of the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture report. On the left, the words "Vanishing Culture" are prominently displayed in bold, dark font against a neutral background. To the right, a set of cultural artifacts including a VHS tape, an open book, a film reel, a vinyl record, and a web link icon appear to disintegrate into pixels, symbolizing the disappearance of analog and digital media. Below these icons is a pixelated computer hand cursor pointing to the word "SAVE," emphasizing the need for preservation. The Internet Archive's logo is placed in the bottom-right corner.

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Wonderful essay by @RuthAhnert & colleagues on using network analysis not only for locating connections among entities, but also for foregrounding the archival infrastructure that shapes our access to the past. Alongside other excellent case studies here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53153
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People assign hidden meanings and metaphors behind "the Archive" because often archival institutions are housed in derelict asylums, old hospitals, abandoned monasteries, even abattoirs... ...while it all comes down to neglect, devaluing, lack of funding & commitment.
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Come find me there. @amaliasl.bsky.social
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#SAAwords: archival debt n. ~ the burden on archival workers and repositories resulting from previous decisions and practices ow.ly/MHUL50TAorb
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This sounds awesome! 😍 Knowing *how much* of humanity's knowledge and data is "hidden" and inaccessible to LLMs, I'm amazed at the naivety of those who think that generative AI generates...comprehensive or representative or substantial stuff.
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)@CSMC_Hamburg2 Oct 2024
ENCI, our mobile CT scanner for cultural heritage objects, is on its second major field mission: Our team is looking inside sealed #cuneiform tablets @Muzekart in Ankara, reading #ancient contracts and letters for the first time: csmc.uni-hamburg.de/news/202…
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New study highlighting the critical role of web archives & the @waybackmachine in preserving web content at risk of disappearing ⬇️ Authors: @kritika_garg, @ibnesayeed, Dietrich Ayala, @weiglemc, @phonedude_mln
Michael L. Nelson@phonedude_mln23 Sep 2024
Some webpages are immortal, but most are ephemeral. Our preliminary report on our study of 27M webpages archived by @WaybackMachine. @WebSciDL @internetarchive @FilFoundation @oducs 🧵 1/ ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/09/2…
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Check out my latest blog post if you 🔶 Always wondered how archivists package historical records 🔶 Love demo pictures showing how professionals do practical things 🔶 Are fascinated by cultural differences in cultural fields 🔶 Love paper peelarchivesblog.com/2024/09…

How do archivists package things? The battle of the boxes

It’s been a while since we posted one of our articles pulling back the curtains on archival work. To make up for that, here’s a special edition of our popular Archives FAQs and Facts series. For th…

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Les fouilles à la Cathédrale Notre-Dame.
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7000 ads! A great accomplishment, @ITSS_Copenhagen team, congrats! 👏
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@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)
@timnitGebru18 Sep 2024
We received feedback from a grant application that included "While your impact metrics & thoughtful approach to addressing systemic issues in AI are impressive, some reviewers noted the inherent risks of navigating this space without alignment with larger corporate players,"
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Honored to be among the nine winners for a @JHSEngland award!
Jewish Historical Society of England (JHSE)@JHSEngland8 Sep 2024
🏆 Congratulations to the nine award winners who successfully applied to the JHSE Award Committee for funding in support of some highly original and innovative project proposals. Read all the detail here ⬇️ jhse.org/post/jhse-award-win…

JHSE Award Winners

Congratulations to the nine award winners, who successfully applied to the JHSE Award Committee for funding in support of excellent project proposals.To make your own application, please visit:...

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Hanging in there at #3 😂
The London Archives@TheLdnArchives9 Sep 2024
Mondays hit everyone differently... All images from our collections! #MemeMonday #HistoryMemes #Archives #TheLondonArchives
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Now with more than a bit of "spare" time, finally getting around to preparing a @WHGazetteer contribution for the Digging into Early Colonial Mexico project (DECM), for @patymurrieta, @bgmartins, et al. cc @StanglWerner , @gimenadelr . Maybe that LatAm gazetteer is not far off?
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Amalia S. Levi@amaliasl22 Aug 2024
Wonderful to see this open-access out in the world! I've contributed an article: "Along, Against, Beyond Silences in Colonial Archives" degruyter.com/document/doi/1… Congrats and thanks, @RojasCastroA and @tobias_kraft !
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Wonderful to see this open-access out in the world! I've contributed an article: "Along, Against, Beyond Silences in Colonial Archives" degruyter.com/document/doi/1… Congrats and thanks, @RojasCastroA and @tobias_kraft !
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📣 The CFP for“Real-Time History: Engaging with Living Archives and Temporal Multiplicities,” our March 2025 Digital Humanities/Digital History conference, is still open! Send in your proposals— more details here: ghi-dc.org/events/event/date…
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Fantastic initiative--context is everything! "Data cannot be analyzed responsibly without deep knowledge of its social and historical context, provenance, and limitations."
Melanie Walsh
@mellymeldubs7 Aug 2024
You think this data fell out of a coconut tree? Introducing "Responsible Datasets in Context," a repository of datasets paired with data essays and teaching resources that go long on context: responsible-datasets-in-cont… We're in development and open to community feedback!
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Lovely to see the infrastructure behind archival + library collections. Most people don't realize the intense human labor, large funding, and continuous institutional commitment it takes to preserve and make them accessible.
Bodleian Libraries@bodleianlibs9 Aug 2024
It's #BookLoversDay - so put down your smart phones and pick up a book. We love books so much, we've collected more than ten million of them in our storage facility in Swindon. They are stored on 153 miles of shelving more than 10 metres high 👀go.glam.ox.ac.uk/bsfswindon
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We are delighted to announce that 'Computational Humanities Research' (CHR) - a NEW #openaccess journal from #Cambridge - is now accepting submissions! 📭➡️ cup.org/4d1LFMN #computationalhumanities #DH2024 @CambridgeUP
Teal background with text that says Computational Humanities Research and NEW from Cambridge. Also featured is the front cover of the journal on a tablet device, against a footer made up of the CHR pattern of coloured shapes (red, yellow, purple, teal, cream).

ALT Teal background with text that says Computational Humanities Research and NEW from Cambridge. Also featured is the front cover of the journal on a tablet device, against a footer made up of the CHR pattern of coloured shapes (red, yellow, purple, teal, cream).

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