Digital preservation: not fandom specific

[morgandawn]

 Something near and dear to my heart, digital archival preservation. Here's a link to the GoFundMe. Note this is non-fandom specific, but this individual is the only person currently archiving educational film strips 

"I am an independent media archivist saving obscure and lost media on vinyl, cassette, VHS, and especially sound filmstrip, an old educational slideshow-like format on 35mm film. I have more than a thousand items uploaded to the Internet Archive, with several thousand left to digitize. However, I am not connected to a university like most archivists and therefore don't have an unlimited budget.

Backups are super important to a project like this, and recently one of my backup destinations, Google Drive, set up a storage limit that is way too low for my needs. They did this suddenly and without warning. "

https://gofund.me/685d7218

If donating is not feasible, consider volunteering by helping him identify lost media either through the twice a week live Twitch streams 

https://twitter.com/uncommnephemera

 or by checking out the Uncommon Ephemera Haystack Media collection on the Internet Archive.  This audio collection will be up for two more weeks while we work to identify unidentified off-air radio recordings or vinyl album recordings

https://archive.org/details/uncommon-ephemera-lost-media-haystack?tab=about&s=09  

And if you just want to see something truly special check out this 1955 #Christian #filmstrip. It is from a series called "Parables From Nature," but it's about a fairy who eats the wrong mushroom and demands all mushrooms be destroyed. 

https://archive.org/embed/uncommon-ephemera-filmstrip-pn-252b-the-fairy-ring-cathedral-films-1955

Comments

[valoise]

As a retired archivist, I appreciate all the work you do to preserve media. I already knew about your passion and dedication to the preservation of fandom materials. I love that you're spreading the word on this individual's work on non-fandom materials, too.

[morgandawn]

Thank you.

We can also volunteer by helping him identify lost media either through the twice a week live Twitch streams

https://twitter.com/uncommnephemera

or by checking out the Uncommon Ephemera Haystack Media collection on the Internet Archive. This audio collection will be up for two more weeks while we work to identify unidentified off-air radio recordings or vinyl album recordings
https://archive.org/details/uncommon-ephemera-lost-media-haystack?tab=about&s=09

And if you just want to see something truly special check out this 1955 #Christian #filmstrip. It is from a series called "Parables From Nature," but it's about a fairy who eats the wrong mushroom and demands all mushrooms be destroyed.

https://archive.org/embed/uncommon-ephemera-filmstrip-pn-252b-the-fairy-ring-cathedral-films-1955