Digital Archives
A Generation of Hip-Hop Was Given Away for Free. Can It Be Archived?
They won't be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes?
Culturomics 2.0 Aims to Predict Future Events
By analyzing tens of millions of news stories, a supercomputer in Tennessee may be able to predict future human events.
Analyzing Culture with Google Books: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
OPINION: Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed 'culturomics' is not the same as being an historian.
Science Posters Given a New Life Online by Skolr
A cool new project dubbed Skolr promises to spread the latest science farther and faster by bringing science's ubiquitous poster sessions online.
Can Health Privacy, Electronic Medical Records Coexist?
Keeping individual health information private is good thing, but so is aggregating that data to improve care in general. Can those competing good ideas find a happy medium?
How to Hold a World of Tweets
The U.S. Library of Congress is blazing a trail in determining how to store an ever-expanding trove of information that never had physical form.
Will The Past Last In The Digital Age?
Never has the world historical and cultural record been more accessible — or more fragile.