Explore how digital platforms are reshaping cultural memory at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

A newly launched toolkit offers practical guidance to cultural heritage professionals and researchers on preserving fragile and outdated media formats.

It’s a chilly Tuesday in Frankfurt, the Matildas just advanced to the final of the 2026 Women’s A

Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but storage developed by Microsoft could last for millennia Some cultures used stone, others used parchment. Some even, for a time, used floppy disks. Now scientists have come up with a new way to keep archived data safe that, they say, could endure for millennia: laser-writing in glass. From personal photos that are kept for a lifetime to business documents, medical information, data for scientific research, national records and heritage data, there is no shortage of information that needs to be preserved for very long periods of time. Continue reading...

AI & Archives

The web represents the largest unstructured data collection, with a huge variety of data types, creators and sources, distributed across the world. The arc

Old, New, Precarious Data is the first event of the 2025-2026 DHRH flagship seminar series on incompleteness and loss in digital cultural heritage collections.

Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...

This volume is the first to provide extensive insights into history on Instagram and TikTok. In doing so, it sheds light on the contents, usage patterns, and media-specific characteristics of the plat...

At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.

This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.

Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...

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UN agencies are worried about rising cases of satellite navigation signal interference.

This discussion will highlight the ethical challenges of managing the digitised images and records of materials which, for ethical reasons, are no longer shown in galleries.

The University of Sheffield and the History of Parliament are offering a fully-paid PhD studentship on Irish MPs in the Victorian Commons. Deadline for applications: 5 March 2025. Full details of t…

This report presents a summary of the work of the Multilingual Digital Humanities in the UK and Ireland Community Interest Group (CIG), an initiative belonging to the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Ass...