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The term "born digital" is of uncertain origin. While it may have occurred to multiple people at various times, it was coined independently by web developer Randel (Rafi) Metz in 1993, who acquired the domain name "borndigital.com" then and sustained it as a personal website for 18 years until 2011.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is an online archive and finding aid for transgender-related materials in digital and physical collections.It provides a single search engine for researchers to locate and use materials from more than sixty international colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, and private collections, including materials hosted by the DTA itself.
Born Digital has been called "a landmark sociological study of today's early adults." [1] Born Digital was also reviewed in Science [2] and The Washington Post. [3] Library Journal named Born Digital one of its top Science and Technology books for 2008, the only computer science book named to the prestigious list.
Based upon case studies of digitized and born-digital records, Jane Zhang described several key findings about the notion of original order in digital archives. These findings include the fact that electronic records may have multiple variations of original order because they do not have a fixed system of organization; they can be reorganized ...
In the case of born-digital content (e.g., institutional archives, websites, electronic audio and video content, born-digital photography and art, research data sets, observational data), the enormous and growing quantity of content presents significant scaling issues to digital preservation efforts. Rapidly changing technologies can hinder ...
Author Nicholson Baker went so far as to create a paper newspaper archive, which he called the American Newspaper Repository, in order to preserve paper newspapers that would otherwise be discarded. More recent newspapers may have been "born digital," meaning that they were printed from computer files rather than by letterpress or phototypesetting.
Memento wins the Digital Preservation Award 2010 because "Memento offers an elegant and easily deployed method that reunites web archives with their home on the live web. It opens web archives to tens of millions of new users and signals a dramatic change in the way we use and perceive digital archives." [63] 2011: June 28: Web archiving