New Funding for The September 11 Digital Archive
We are pleased to announce that The September 11 Digital Archive has received a Saving America’s Treasures grant to assist in the preservation of the collection at http://911digitalarchive.org.
Cutting edge at its launch nearly ten years ago, the Archive now is showing its age. This award will pay to transfer this groundbreaking digital collection to a stable, standardized, up-to-date archival system. This data transfer is an essential first step in guaranteeing that the world’s largest public collection of digital materials related to the events of September 11, 2001 will be available to scholars, students, policy-makers, and the general public in the coming decades.
Launched in 2001 as an effort to capture the personal experiences, responses, and images produced in the wake of 9/11, staff at ASHP/CML and at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (CHNM) used electronic media to collect, preserve and present the history of those events and the public responses to them. ASHP and CHNM built a simple portal to accept electronic submissions of first-hand accounts, emails and other electronic communications, digital photographs, artwork, and a range of other materials. Through partnerships with local community and labor groups and national cultural institutions, the archive grew to its current size of over 150,000 digital objects.
The Save America’s Treasures program is one of the largest and most successful grant programs for the protection of our nation’s endangered and irreplaceable cultural heritage. Grants are awarded for the preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and historic structures and sites.
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