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Fire in the library
"Once, we stored our photos and other mementos in shoeboxes in the attic; now we keep them online. That puts our stuff at the mercy of companies that could decide to throw it away -- unless Jason Scott and the Archive Team can get there first."
web-publishing  archives 
december 2011 by jnchapel
Keeneland DRF archive: 117 years of racing stats put to pasture at the track
"Keeneland already has 200,000 Daily Racing Form pages online. It sounds like a lot until you add up the pages that remain. 'We think there's 11 million," Ryder says. "And it's still publishing.'"
horseracing  media  archives  daily-racing-form  keeneland 
october 2011 by jnchapel
Digital archivists for baseball don’t go to the videotape
"This is how baseball’s archives are created now -- not by merely storing videotapes on a shelf, as it has been done for decades, but by a team of 'loggers' whose job is to watch every game as it happens (2,430 during the regular season, and up to 41 in the postseason) and add computerized notes on every play, no matter how ordinary."
sports  baseball  mlb  archives  tagging  data 
october 2010 by jnchapel
How NPR tweets topical archive material
Mining archives through a nifty "backstory" project.
media  media-experiments  twitter  archives  npr 
may 2009 by jnchapel
New York Times Topics
See Big Brown (Race Horse), etc. A great example of how to organize and make useful a massive collection of archives.
reference  news  information  research  resources  archives  new-york-times 
march 2009 by jnchapel
SI Vault - 54 years of Sports Illustrated history
An amazing trove of sports articles and photographs, including some fantastic racing stuff
magazines  archives  sports  horseracing 
march 2008 by jnchapel

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