Those assembling John Peel's archive discovered just how obsessive he was about storing his music alphabetically, together with press releases, and in some cases, letters handwritten by the musicians.
The existence of the archives, discovered in 2000 in a vacant Vienna apartment, became widely publicized only in recent weeks.
"Latif is a forgotten master," says Chalabi. "His name has not been heard on the scene for years and years and you suddenly through his archives discover this old hidden treasure".
Working with inscriptions from the Hittite royal archives discovered at Boǧazköy, Turkey (1906), he took the position first suggested in 1902 by J.A. Knudtzon that Hittite belonged to the Indo-European family of languages and was related to Iranian, Italic, Celtic, and Slavic.
In an effort to explain what happened inside Tuol Sleng (then known by the code name S-21), David Chandler, the preeminent historian of Cambodia, spent years examining the voluminous archives discovered in the compound when the Vietnamese seized power in Cambodia in 1979.
One member, poking around in the archives, discovered that Bay View's explicit Christian-only requirement didn't originate with its founding but was actually added around 1942, when the board adopted a resolution that members must be "of the white race and a Christian".
In the boxes she kept finding images to add to one of her pet projects, Yale's online Rhode Island Furniture Archive, and discovering hints that works already in the database might be fake or heavily restored.
In the most compelling segment, Romaine Moreton narrates her own story of researching at the National Film and Sound Archive and discovering the building's history as the Australian Institute of Anatomy.
As research libraries and archives are discovering, "born-digital" materials those initially created in electronic form are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated.
Berg initially turned the project down, telling Goldwyn that "he was interested in American culture, not Hollywood," but changed his mind after visiting Goldwyn's archives and discovering gin rummy I.O.U.s, menus from Goldwyn's dinner parties, and "all the quotidian minutiae that are a biographer's dream".
