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Can you read #cursive? The National Archives needs you! There's so much history that is written longhand, and there is some doubt that future generations will be able to transcribe it.

Step away from the firehose, grab a cup of your beverage of choice, and settle down with some old copperplate handwriting and help preserve history.

https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist

#NationalArchives #history #preservation


This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/

"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."

#DataGov #Libraries #OpenData #Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics