Robert Friedman, Author at Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/author/robert/ Nonprofit. Secure. Digital Archives. Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:54:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.permanent.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Permanent-Icon-512-32x32.png Robert Friedman, Author at Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/author/robert/ 32 32 Imagine a World Where All People Are Included in History https://www.permanent.org/blog/imagine-a-world-where-all-people-are-included-in-history/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/imagine-a-world-where-all-people-are-included-in-history/#respond Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:54:21 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5953 Imagine a world where all people, regardless of their circumstances, financial means, or social status have the opportunity to be remembered for generations to come. Imagine a world where all people can be remembered for who they are and where they have control over how they are remembered. Imagine a world where anyone – students, scholars of history, your descendents – has access to the first-hand accounts of anyone who lived before them. Donate today at Permanent.org/donate to make that vision a reality. Create a history of all people At Permanent, we believe that all people leave an impression on the world that deserves to be preserved. We believe that individual stories can have a ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/imagine-a-world-where-all-people-are-included-in-history/feed/ 0 Building Towards a Sustainable Future https://www.permanent.org/blog/building-towards-a-sustainable-future/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/building-towards-a-sustainable-future/#respond Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:18:08 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5539 Our mission is to preserve and provide perpetual access to the digital legacy of all people for the historical and educational benefit of future generations. Providing perpetual access is a commitment that requires a stable, reliable and trustworthy steward to facilitate that access.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/building-towards-a-sustainable-future/feed/ 0 Download and Secure Your Twitter Data Now https://www.permanent.org/blog/download-twitter-data/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/download-twitter-data/#respond Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:01:09 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4917 Permanent.org exists for the preservation of your digital legacy, as you define it, not for profit.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/download-twitter-data/feed/ 0 Prepare a Shared Folder for Your Next Special Occasion https://www.permanent.org/blog/prepare-shared-folders/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/prepare-shared-folders/#respond Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:46:48 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4911 Preparing for an upcoming celebration with Permanent.org is as simple as setting the table for your family and friends. Shared folders are a safe and secure way to gather and preserve the memory of your important traditions. They keep your family and friends connected throughout the years. Shared folders make it possible for you and all the special people in your life to easily collect and enjoy your photos, videos, and documents together.  Here’s why you should add a shared folder to your event planning checklist. Traditions Are The Stories That We Write Together We all have special traditions that we cherish and hold dear, whether they are observed with our family, our friends, our ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/prepare-shared-folders/feed/ 0 Storage Grants for Historically Marginalized Narratives https://www.permanent.org/blog/storage-grants-for-historically-marginalized-narratives/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/storage-grants-for-historically-marginalized-narratives/#respond Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:50:22 +0000 https://www.permanent.org/?p=4863 Our Byte for Byte program provides archival storage grants to nonprofit and community-led organizations that advance diversity, equity and inclusion in cultural heritage, preservation and history. Today we are excited to announce our newest Byte for Byte partners and grantees. This cohort of 12 organizations represents an impressive diversity of collections and focus areas: Washington State Jewish Historical Society Gerlind Institute for Cultural Studies King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center Wasted Ink Zine Distro Texas Heritage Project of American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions Splinter Art and Community Fund Jewish Zine Archive Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation Inside Books Project Archive Perilous Chronicle African American Museum of Southern Arizona Arizona ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/storage-grants-for-historically-marginalized-narratives/feed/ 0 Enhancing Family Photos with Metadata https://www.permanent.org/blog/enhancing-family-photos-with-metadata/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/enhancing-family-photos-with-metadata/#respond Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:23:31 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4835 The Family History Metadata Working Group (FHMWG), Savemetadata.org, is a collaboration between leaders in the family history software industry. We are working together to improve the process of preserving critical information about family photos in order to make them more valuable to the family history community. The technical term for this critical information is metadata: the who, what, where, when and how about a photo. Together, our group has developed a set of recommendations for providers in the photo software industry. These recommendations improve how the most relevant family history metadata is captured, transferred, and preserved. Our recommendations were carefully crafted in order to preserve and leverage what photo software is already designed to do. ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/enhancing-family-photos-with-metadata/feed/ 0 Guiding Our Members to Achieve Their Goals https://www.permanent.org/blog/membersuccessmanager/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/membersuccessmanager/#respond Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:36:30 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4756 We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Kaitlyn Jarnagin, our Member Success Manager. This post is co-written by Robert Friedman, our Executive Director and Kaitlyn.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/membersuccessmanager/feed/ 0 Announcing the Beta Release of Our Mobile Apps for iOS and Android https://www.permanent.org/blog/announcing-the-beta-release-of-our-mobile-apps-for-ios-and-android/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/announcing-the-beta-release-of-our-mobile-apps-for-ios-and-android/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:52:11 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=3935 Permanent is excited to announce that our new and improved mobile apps for iOS and Android are available as beta releases starting today!

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/announcing-the-beta-release-of-our-mobile-apps-for-ios-and-android/feed/ 1 From Permanent.org to the Internet Archive in Just One Click https://www.permanent.org/blog/from-permanent-org-to-the-internet-archive-in-just-one-click/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/from-permanent-org-to-the-internet-archive-in-just-one-click/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:50:41 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/from-permanent-org-to-the-internet-archive-in-just-one-click/ At Permanent, we enjoy making it easy for you to share your archives.  Sometimes that sharing is private.  It might mean making sure everybody in your family can enjoy the mementos of a journey across generations.  At other times, we want to help you submit your media more widely— to research efforts and public collections like the Internet Archive, for example.  To help with that, we have made some improvements to Permanent that let you send files to the Internet Archive with just one click. What is the Internet Archive you ask? It is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Their mission is to provide Universal Access ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/from-permanent-org-to-the-internet-archive-in-just-one-click/feed/ 1 Upgrades to Uploads https://www.permanent.org/blog/upgrades-to-uploads/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/upgrades-to-uploads/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:54:52 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/upgrades-to-uploads/ Over the past few months the Permanent engineering team has been hard at work making fundamental improvements to the way people upload data to their archives.  A lot of these changes work behind the scenes, but they were a massive undertaking that is core to the Permanent mission so we wanted to share a little bit about what got done, why, and what we thought about when we designed the new architecture. The Before Times Last year the Permanent code base was having troubles with uploads.  This was a serious problem because uploading content for permanent storage is kind of an important part of what people want to do when they sign up for Permanent! The symptoms were clear enough: ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/upgrades-to-uploads/feed/ 1 Why we’ve chosen to suspend our Facebook integration. https://www.permanent.org/blog/why-weve-chosen-to-suspend-our-facebook-integration/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/why-weve-chosen-to-suspend-our-facebook-integration/#respond Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:00:00 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/why-weve-chosen-to-suspend-our-facebook-integration/ The Permanent team has been working on finding a way to allow our users to import their Facebook photos and videos since even before I joined the team three years ago. We heard from potential users time and again that extracting memories from online social platforms – or better yet, to sync them to Permanent – would be an extremely valuable feature for them. We’ve attempted to create many versions of a solution that simple feature request starting with Facebook. As we did, the process of gaining access to the Facebook API, the structure of the API itself, and the acceptable use cases ceaselessly evolved, creating a moving target that required constant upkeep and maintenance. ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/why-weve-chosen-to-suspend-our-facebook-integration/feed/ 0 The Oral Tradition is Permanent https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-oral-tradition-is-permanent/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-oral-tradition-is-permanent/#respond Thu, 11 Mar 2021 04:32:55 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/the-oral-tradition-is-permanent/ This is a guest post by Zack Ellis, founder & CEO of TheirStory announcing an exciting new partnership with the Permanent Legacy Foundation. I am thrilled to announce a truly innovative partnership between TheirStory and the Permanent Legacy Foundation, which has the potential to revolutionize how we collect, preserve, and access oral histories.  TheirStory has built a remote video communication platform custom-tailored to the unique needs of oral history and community-centered storytelling. Our platform not only makes remotely recording oral history safe and easy during the global pandemic, we also make sure the audio quality of those oral histories meets the standards of the most discerning oral historians. Beyond the ease and quality of the ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-oral-tradition-is-permanent/feed/ 0 When Disaster Strikes Part 3: Preparing Your Family Treasures for the Worst https://www.permanent.org/blog/preparing-your-family-treasures-for-the-worst/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/preparing-your-family-treasures-for-the-worst/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2021 04:06:43 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/when-disaster-strikes-part-3-preparing-your-family-treasures-for-the-worst/ In part 1 and part 2 of this miniseries, we’ve run through the emotional logistics needed in order to prepare our mindset for handling a disaster, it’s time for us to layout a plan for how to mitigate the loss of family treasures. This post in the When Disaster Strikes miniseries will offer a checklist of things to think about and steps to take for before, during, and after a disaster. The more you can do to prepare your family treasures for a disaster before it strikes, the better off you’ll be. However, we don’t always have the luxury of time or foresight. With this in mind, I’ve broken up the steps into three distinct ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/preparing-your-family-treasures-for-the-worst/feed/ 2 When Disaster Strikes Part 2: Navigating Grief and Data Loss https://www.permanent.org/blog/navigating-data-loss-and-grief/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/navigating-data-loss-and-grief/#respond Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:41:58 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/when-disaster-strikes-part-2-navigating-grief-and-data-loss/ In Part 1 of the When Disaster Strikes miniseries, I opened with a personal account of what my family experienced during the recent West Coast fires. While (thankfully) everything turned out OK for my family, it did impart some lessons learned. In this post we’ll delve into the emotional preparation needed for when—not if—a disaster strikes and facing the loss of our family treasures as a consequence. Emotional Steps to Prepare for Disaster Before we can delve into preparation logistics there’s something we have to deal with first: ourselves. While the human mind can easily imagine disaster scenarios, it’s harder for us to channel those thoughts into actions. The first thing to do is sit ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/navigating-data-loss-and-grief/feed/ 0 When Disaster Strikes Part 1: The Importance of Preparation https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-importance-of-preparation/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-importance-of-preparation/#respond Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:12:40 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/when-disaster-strikes-part-1-the-importance-of-preparation/ We’ve all seen it. The shocking images of debris in the background while an exhausted human with a thousand-yard stare gestures to where their house used to be. It’s easy to think it will never happen to us, and yet we know from looking at the data that climate change is only getting worse. Cataclysmic disasters as a result of severe weather events are becoming an all-too-common occurrence. And let’s not forget it’s not just natural disasters we have to contend with. Disasters can come in many other forms such as: war, economic collapse, terrorism, overtourism, neglect, and time. The 2020 West Coast Fires I live in the Pacific Northwest, a region known for its ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-importance-of-preparation/feed/ 0 Welcome Cecilia Krum, Our New Director of Engineering https://www.permanent.org/blog/our-new-director-of-engineering/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/our-new-director-of-engineering/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:30:10 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/welcome-cecilia-krum-our-new-director-of-engineering/ This is a co-authored piece by Robert Friedman, Executive Director, and Cecilia Krum, the new Director of Engineering at Permanent. She will be responsible for the technical requirements that ensure reliable data preservation and access for current and future users. Robert Friedman: This Thanksgiving, the Permanent Legacy Foundation team is thankful to have identified our new Director of Engineering, Cecilia Krum. We couldn’t be more excited and honored to have her joining our team just in time for the holiday season. Cecilia’s past work on digital afterlife as an Aspen Tech Policy Hub fellow, and her past experience in government and social sector data makes her a perfect match to the Permanent mission. I’d like ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/our-new-director-of-engineering/feed/ 1 FamilyHistory with Permanent.org Part 1 of 4: Organizing the Archivist Way https://www.permanent.org/blog/preparing-for-digitization-organizing/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/preparing-for-digitization-organizing/#respond Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:30:02 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/preparing-for-digitization-organizing-the-archivist-way/ Tia Stenson is a guest blogger for Permanent. Tia is an emerging archivist and a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with a Masters in Library and Information Science, and a concentration in archival studies. Picture this: you came into possession of a relative’s documents, photographs, and scrapbooks. Now what? What do you do with it besides put it in a box and place it in the attic to be forgotten about (please don’t do that)? Well, I am here to help. My name is Tia Stenson. I am here to help you. I am going to share the best practices I have learned at school, and my various internships, so you can best ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/preparing-for-digitization-organizing/feed/ 0 Introducing Our Partnership With Open Tech Strategies https://www.permanent.org/blog/partnership-with-ots/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/partnership-with-ots/#respond Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:04:39 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/introducing-our-partnership-with-open-tech-strategies/ We’re excited to share that we’re working with Open Tech Strategies (OTS) on a six month co-development partnership through the end of 2020. Permanent had been searching for development partners that could help us strengthen our codebase and eventually release it to the community. We were connected to OTS by our advisor and mutual friend, Jeff Ubois, at the MacArthur Foundation in 2019. OTS partners and staff demonstrated decades’ worth of exceptional technical open source experience and expertise in developing and deploying software for end users and could offer us invaluable technical, cultural, and legal guidance in working towards open sourcing our own codebase. It’s clear that their impressive clients all came to them for ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/partnership-with-ots/feed/ 0 Pledge Goal Reached: Thank You for Your Support! https://www.permanent.org/blog/pledge-goal-reached/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/pledge-goal-reached/#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2020 20:44:11 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/pledge-goal-reached-thank-you-for-your-support/ Today, I am honored to announce that we have reached our $100K phase 1 fundraising goal! We are grateful to the 256 people who made a pledge to our mission – to preserve the digital legacy of all people – and who share our vision for a new paradigm in digital storage. The Path to Success Over the last few months, we’ve been humbled by your interest and support. We were only just writing about that in May and before we could blink, we reached our goal. Pledges made to our campaign came in all sizes ranging from $3 to $30,000, with the majority between $10 and $20 and the average coming in at $414. ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/pledge-goal-reached/feed/ 0 Welcome Bryson Williams, Our New Lead Creative https://www.permanent.org/blog/welcome-bryson/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/welcome-bryson/#respond Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:11:17 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/welcome-bryson-williams-our-new-lead-creative/ This is a co-authored piece by Robert Friedman, Executive Director, and Bryson Williams, the new Lead Creative at Permanent. The Lead Creative will drive Permanent’s creative strategy for user experience, editorial illustration, and social content. Robert Friedman: We’re so very excited and proud to announce the hire of Bryson Williams for the role of Lead Creative at Permanent. Bryson is such an important addition to the Permanent team and the Lead Creative role is such a foundational responsibility that I felt compelled to tell you more about why. As in all things, it begins with our mission, vision, and values. To preserve and provide perpetual access to the digital legacy of all people is a ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/welcome-bryson/feed/ 0 The Family History Metadata Working Group (FHMWG) Announces their Formation https://www.permanent.org/blog/fhmwg/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/fhmwg/#comments Wed, 20 May 2020 15:13:28 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/the-family-history-metadata-working-group-fhmwg-announces-their-formation/ Permanent is pleased to be a founding member of The Family History Metadata Working Group (FHMWG), which announced its formation and launch at this year’s RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Read the full press release here. FHMWG is a public initiative for family history technology companies that will help organize and provide standards to create shared industry best practices for digital preservation. The official launch date was Thursday, February 27, 2020. FHMWG seeks to help develop metadata standards to “keep your family memories alive.” To do this, the working group is looking to enhance the value of digital media about people by refining the process and capability for embedding metadata directly into the ...

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