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The Importance of and Opportunities for Community Archiving on Permanent

Amanda Meeks — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:48:36 +0000

Permanent supports community archiving through our Byte4Byte granting program, which allows our grantees and partners to secure 100GB of cloud storage and intern support for their unique projects and efforts in this area.

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Public Archive Spotlight: The Art+Feminism Archive

The Permanent Team — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:11:02 +0000

When it comes to whose and which stories have been captured by the historical narrative, women have been disproportionately left out. A 2018 survey from Wikipedia across 12 different language versions found that 90% of the respondents reported their gender as male with just 8.8% identifying as female and 1% as other. In addition, a 2021 study found that although biographies of women only make up 17% of those on Wikipedia, 41% of the biographies nominated for deletion were about women. This gender bias affects the creation and content of the pages on Wikipedia, with some non-male participants feeling like there is a barrier to participating due to factors such as gatekeeping, harassment, and frequent ...

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Imagine a World Where All People Are Included in History

Robert Friedman — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:54:21 +0000

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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UA African American Museum and WWII Internment Camps

The Permanent Team — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:37:27 +0000

First Speaker: Beverely Elliott Respecting the Past while Honoring Today African American Museum of Southern Arizona Beverely will be In Person Beverely Elliott is vice president of Elliott Accounting, an accounting, tax, management and investment advisory services firm founded by her husband, Robert “Bob” Elliott, who is also a retired professional basketball player. Beverely (and yes, she has an extra e in her name) is a Michigan native but has lived in Tucson for the past 40 years. Beverely and Bob are University of Arizona (UA) Alumni and have sponsored scholarships for deserving UA students in addition to other meaningful contributions to the university. Beverely and Bob were also honored at the 2023 University of ...

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Building Towards a Sustainable Future

Robert Friedman — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:18:08 +0000

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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Data Transfer Improvements

Cecilia Krum — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 22:15:33 +0000

Over the past few months at Permanent, we’ve made it possible to transfer data and storage in some new ways.

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Celebrating & Honoring Indigenous Legacies & History with Rudy De La Cruz, Jr.

Amanda Meeks — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:31:53 +0000

We are delighted to shine a community spotlight on one of our recent Byte4Byte grantees this month, Rudy De La Cruz, Jr., Director of the Texas Heritage Project of AITSCM.

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Storage Grants for Historically Marginalized Narratives

Robert Friedman — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:50:22 +0000

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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