In "Soundtrack" they tweak the traditional archives-and-talking-heads format by pausing for music-video-style performances of spirituals and protest songs by contemporary artists including Joss Stone, Wyclef Jean and the Roots.
The organization hopes that "The Great Thanksgiving Listen," along with other similar initiatives, will allow thousands of memories from people who are underrepresented in traditional archives to be saved.
The adoption of these innovative technologies is likely to change the architecture of traditional picture archiving and communication systems and provide more flexible and efficient means of communication.
The ruling was a defeat for several constituencies -- including universities, libraries and computer programmers -- that had argued that the law should preserve traditional rights to archive and lend out copyrighted material or to use so-called reverse-engineering to understand how a piece of technology works.
Traditional museums are archives by definition, focused on conserving, displaying and augmenting permanent collections.
The traditional format with archives went like this: aging famous person puts together his correspondence and drafts, hires an agent and sells the material to the institution that offered the most loot.
The Swiss court also said Google must provide better information about Street View by, for example, allowing people to opt out of the photo archive through traditional mail services as well as online.
Since Internet-based phone calls already consist of packets of data, they're potentially much easier to copy and archive than traditional calls.
There are film and photographic archives of traditional Welsh farming techniques, food and crafts, and the buildings include a former school, craft workshops, farmhouses and places of worship.
But most wound up at the Library of Congress, the University of Georgia, and the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University — waiting, like Banjo Bill's home recordings, for someone to dust them off.
