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Whose Data Is It, Anyway? How Permanent.org Stands Apart

Alexa Stickler — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:41:01 +0000

As we celebrate Love Your Data Week, take a moment to reflect on how you’re making informed decisions to preserve and protect your digital legacy.

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Organizing External Storage Media

Amanda Meeks — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:19:03 +0000

External media, including jump drives, external hard drives, and memory cards, are essential tools for storing files, photos, and videos. As we amass these devices over time, they can add to clutter and become disorganized.

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Building Better Models for Preservation

The Permanent Team — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:16:45 +0000

In this panel, three speakers will discuss their experiences preserving cultural heritage material in their communities when they saw a need that was not being met. The panelists are engaged in building better models for preservation, responding to the ways that existing standards and best practices create barriers for their communities and promote extractive practices.

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Cultural Competency’s Role Toward Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Goals

The Permanent Team — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:14:12 +0000

Archivist Helen Wong Smith is presenting this session that will challenge you to examine personal perceptions that might surprise you and introduce strategies that will increase your awareness, values, and behaviors to increase DEIA. Three skills required to apply Cultural Competency and the four stages individuals and organizations can implement to improve relations with internal and external communities.

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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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Gathering & Transferring Your Digital Materials in One Place

Amanda Meeks — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:20:46 +0000

Transferring digital materials from external devices to a central location is an important step in getting your materials ready to add to your Permanent archive. Here’s a step-by-step guide and considerations to help you through the process. Gather digital assets and make a list. Many people have digital files, photos, and assets in a range of formats, on multiple devices, and in various cloud services. You’ll want to gather any devices that have materials you want to transfer living on them, as your first step. This could include USB drives, external hard drives, memory cards, smartphones, or any other storage devices. Additionally, you’ll want to make a list of the other places you know your ...

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Kathy’s Corner: Digitizing that collection of inherited family photos

The Permanent Team — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:00:05 +0000

This popular monthly session focuses on a challenge for every family historian: Sorting and digitizing collections of inherited family photos and artifacts. Our speaker, Projectkin member Kathy Stone has decades of experience as a professional photo organizer and is now working on her family history projects. As a pro, she appreciates the challenge of actually getting projects done. In these “Corner” events, she answers questions and coaches members as your personal “sherpa over Mt. Inertia.” Our programs build on the 8-step approach she shared in a post and the 2023 Kathy’s Corner series. (Projectkin members have access to event recordings through the Members’ Chat Room in the Projectkin Forum.) Now the focus will be on ...

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Discover Your Past: The Chosen Families Project

The Permanent Team — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:38:43 +0000

Several years ago, genealogist Julian Rebelo created The Chosen Family Project (https://www.julianrebelo.com/blog?offset=1652374506063) out of his passion for collecting orphaned family photographs and documents, whilst trying to reunite them with their respective families. Julian shares some of the fascinating stories associated with this project and also advises how to preserve your own historical family photos. For details see alpl.librarymarket.com/event/discover-your-past-chosen-families-project-36711

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Tips for Preserving Your Physical Materials

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:24:39 +0000

Even if you preserve your digital materials on Permanent.org, there’s still something undeniably special about physical archives. Whether it’s a collection of family photographs, historical documents, or cherished memorabilia, these tangible pieces of history hold unique significance and should not be discarded. However, ensuring their longevity requires proper care and preservation techniques. By following a few simple tips, you can safeguard your physical materials and pass them on to future generations in the best condition possible. Handling and Preparing Your Materials It’s crucial to understand how to handle and prepare your materials properly before you even decide where and how to store them. These simple precautions can make a world of difference in preserving your ...

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Kathy’s Corner: Digitizing that collection of inherited family photos

The Permanent Team — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:18:38 +0000

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Informal Archives: Capturing Family Memories

The Permanent Team — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:51:01 +0000

This workshop aims at collectively exploring different shapes and forms of informal family archives and oral histories’ role in keeping family memories alive. Informal family archives could include (but are not limited to): letters, photographs, clothes, audio recordings, videos, etc. Participants are encouraged to bring along and share one item from a family collection and share memories and stories associated with it. We will be discussing: tangible and intangible memories, what is an archive? And what we practically need to create one. For details see www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/informal-archives-capturing-family-memories-tickets-723721609817

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Resources for Organizing and Digitizing Your Materials

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:47:44 +0000

Getting started with organizing and digitizing your materials can be a challenge. Do you feel overwhelmed by pulling all your materials together and organizing them? Do you have lots of photos in scrapbooks, documents in folders, home videos on VHS tapes, or other media that you don’t even have a player for? What equipment do you need to digitize your materials? What settings are best for different media types? We’ve compiled some resources for organizing and digitizing your own materials to help you get started. It’s hard to find comprehensive resources for organizing and digitizing your materials at home. We’ve done the research for you so you can focus on the important work of organizing ...

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Save Your Photos Month

Amanda Meeks — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:44:43 +0000

Since 2014, The Photo Managers have provided FREE educational classes, in-person workshops, and engaging conversations to help you ensure your photos and videos are not lost to changing technology, natural disasters, or just a lack of time and know-how!

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Legacy Planning is HERE!

Amanda Meeks — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:39:12 +0000

We are so excited to share our newest feature, Legacy Planning, with you!

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Thoughts on Digital Preservation and Improving the Software Development Process with Nix

Liam Lloyd — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:55:17 +0000

I recently had the privilege of attending the Southern California Linux Expo, where I attended a variety of talks covering PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, the intersection between open source and public policy, protecting yourself from surveillance on the Internet, and more.

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Capture and Preserve Traditions with Your Loved Ones

Emily Sienkiewicz — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:13:53 +0000

When you save to Permanent, you'll be able to look back, year after year, on your shared memories and the people or traditions that made them so special.

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Download and Secure Your Twitter Data Now

Robert Friedman — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:01:09 +0000

Permanent.org exists for the preservation of your digital legacy, as you define it, not for profit.

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Prepare a Shared Folder for Your Next Special Occasion

Robert Friedman — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:46:48 +0000

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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Can We Have Nice Things on the Internet?

Amanda Meeks — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 22:42:46 +0000

Permanent.org exists for the preservation of your digital legacy, as you define it, not for profit.

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The Photo Managers Conference 2022

The Permanent Team — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:37:15 +0000

Amberly Russell, Preservation Services Manager The Photo Managers Conference Speaker, Denver, 2022 I have the privilege of speaking at The Photo Managers Conference, which is happening in Denver, CO from March 24th-26th! I put together a class that will help professional photo organizers (and really anyone) get motivated to create high quality, digital archives for their clients and families. Once you take the class I am sure you will be eager to get started digitizing your photos with a professional or helping someone else, such as a client, do this. Simply start by creating a Permanent.org account and then check out the resources below where you will find marketing tips, family tree organizers, and more! ...

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FamilyHistory with Permanent.org Part 4 of 4: Caring for the Physical Documents

Tia Stenson — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:26:59 +0000

Now that the hard work of arranging, describing, and digitizing your collections is complete, it is time to think about the proper care for the physical items themselves. Digitizing is great for sharing and preserving, but handing the real thing can be more magical than looking at a digital image. Physically Storing Your Collection Digitizing alone will not preserve your documents. It is important to care for the physical materials as well. Environment: One of the easiest ways to help protect your collections is to make sure your materials are in a stable environment with limited temperature and humidity fluctuations. Paper is affected by the moisture in the air, and if it is housed in ...

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