On March 6, the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. (of which I am secretary), dedicated to archive activism for LGBT equality, submitted an amicus brief in support of marriage equality to the Supreme Court.
There are all the accessories desired by the growing number of "lifeloggers", of which Dancy is perhaps the most extreme exponent, a community dedicated to tracking and archiving every aspect of their known existence.
The project, called New Dimensions in Testimony, was thought up by concept developer Heather Maio, and was made in a collaboration between the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies ICTT) and the Shoah Foundation – an organisation dedicated to making and archiving interviews with survivors and witnesses of genocide.
The sites include detailed reference collections, encyclopedias of librettos, fan pages dedicated to performers, archives of rare audio clips and global listings of schedules and performances -- the better for planning that much-anticipated trip to Vienna or San Francisco.
It's also dedicated to preserving the archives of artists who spent their creative lives working in the community.
Programs include American Artifacts, which is dedicated to exploring museums, archives and historical sites, and Lectures in History, featuring major university history professors giving lectures on U.S. history.
Maybe only a portion, yet well established publishers are dedicated to long term digital archiving via a series of agreements which is important for the preservation of scientific information especially in an age when so many journals are now on-line only.
The house is now a museum and archive dedicated to Miller's work and that of her husband, the English surrealist painter Roland Penrose, and their private collection of works by their friends Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst and many others.
"I've been to conferences and when I've gone up and said I'm from Waco, I get this kind of snickering," said Dr. Mairi C. Rennie, director of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor, a leading research archive dedicated to the English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
