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An important aspect of YFile‘s 20th anniversary is preserving its archived content for future generations at York University. What does the process involve when considering a digital publication with such a lengthy history? What should University community members consider when thinking of archiving their digital records?
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Round games, Engravings, and Sammelbands - May 2022 Highlights
Round Games for All Parties : a Collection of the Greatest Variety of Family Amusements for Fireside or Pic-Nic : Consisting of Games of Action, Games Simply Taxing the Attention, Games of Memory, Catch Games Depending on the Assistance of an Accomplice or Secret Knowledge for the Purpose of Mystification, Games Requiring the Exercise of Fancy, Intelligence, [...]
Petitions, Pirates, and Pirated Copies - April 2022 Highlights
[D. W. Karn & Co. Advertising Fan]. London, Ont: London Printing & Litho. Co., 1896-1909.
Like some of the ASC items highlighted last month, this piece is ephemeral in nature, but it also has the distinction of being closer to an object than a book . Cataloguing standards allow for the cataloguing of non-book items such [...]
Hellenic Heritage Foundation donation will highlight experiences of Greek diaspora in Canada
The funding will expand the existing physical archive and establish a digital archive of images, documents, video and other assets that are related to Greek Canadian history.When Christopher Grafos entered the Graduate Program in History at York University, he encountered the same problem time and time again.“When I spoke to Greek Canadians about their immigration [...]
Archival holdings at CTASC related to Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Archival material related to Indigenous peoples and communities at the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections are located in several historic holdings. This post highlights a selection of fonds* which contain a significant portion of records with content related to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities.
First bulk upload to Wikimedia Commons a success thanks to emerging public historians
On November 23, 2020, the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections contributed several digitized historical maps to Wikimedia Commons, an online repository of free images and other media. With these scans later embedded into Wikipedia articles, the maps are now viewed nearly 2.4 million times per year.
Students enrolled in visiting professor and course director Gilberto [...]