Robert M. Batscha, who worked to preserve, archive, study and permanently exhibit two of the more ephemeral modes of mass communication as the longtime president of the Museum of Television and Radio, died Friday in Manhattan.
According to the press release, the goal of the museum is to "preserve, archive, exhibit, educate and showcase hip-hop music and culture from around the world".
Naval historians have complained that the fuss is distracting attention from other tasks, such as preserving archives and artefacts in need of better maintenance.With budget cuts looming, the navy must make a strong case for funding any of its projects.
Yet there is no middle ground when it comes to preserving archives of digital-born film.
The film is now available in its entirety — its copyright, negatives, prints, digital video masters and more — along with a carefully preserved archive that includes 313 boxes of 35-millimeter outtakes, five drafts of the screenplay by Leonard Schrader and a stack of rejection letters from studio executives who were sure that the movie would never work.
She is tasked with preserving, archiving, and exhibiting the roughly 22,000 artifacts the facility has accumulated over the years, from moulds of patients' disfigured hands to obsolete medical supplies like wicker coffins and rickety hand-cranked wheelchairs.
But for years he had also imagined a public resource in which to preserve the archives and negatives of "concerned photographers" everywhere.
Meanwhile, New Dance Group's board will continue to function and seek to raise money to preserve its archives digitally and to mount exhibits.
The depth of passion provoked by Baker's efforts to preserve newspaper archives, as expressed everywhere from the New York Times letters page to online forums, has been startling.
Since 2013, Bay Area native Jim Hopkins has been doing diligent work to preserve the archives of San Francisco's disco history with his non-profit SF Disco Preservation Society.
As a static repository, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) strives to preserve the archives of large species-specific data sets for the scientific community.
