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Blog topic: Born digital

Cropped contact sheet of photos of Don Knuth.

Don Knuth email collection now available for research

October 8, 2020
by Annie Schweikert
Born digital
Digital preservation
Emerging tech
Open source
University Archives

Stanford Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and University Archives is pleased to announce that the email collection of Don Knuth has been processed. This collection consists of email from January 1999 through January 2019. Users can preview Knuth’s email corpus via Stanford's ePADD discovery website. The full text of the emails is only accessible on a workstation in the Field Reading Room, which is open to all members of the general public.

logos for Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la Discrimaction; Colombia Diversa; & PROMSEX

It’s all available online…until it’s not!

July 21, 2020
by Adan Griego
Born digital
Web archiving

In mid-June news reports about Mexico’s National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminación or CONAPRED) hinted about the agency’s possible closure.  Created in 2003, it has published numerous reports on gender discrimination, Indigenous rights, and LGBT issues in an effort to bring awareness to Mexican society on issues of social inclusion. The Stanford Libraries have a few publications I gathered over the years while attending the Guadalajara International Book Fair. Often the book fair stand for the agency carried only a display copy, and I was told that many more resources were available for downloading online…until they were not.

ePADD 1st Quarter Update

May 7, 2020
by Sally DeBauche
Born digital
Digital preservation
Emerging tech
News
Open source

In January, the ePADD project team began work on the current phase of development to the software, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The focus for this first quarter of the year is on the redevelopment of the ePADD’s attachment review feature. Attachments are a rich source of information in an email collection, providing context to the archive owner’s work, communications, and relationships.

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