IndieWire: Vidiots Launches Initiative to Preserve Rare VHS, with 1,500 Tapes Identified So Far. “Altogether, Vidiots has so far identified 1,500 tapes from the vast, decades-old collection, many vulnerable to deterioration. The project has a long journey ahead — with research required to locate rights holders, then licensing titles, to make them available in updated physical media forms to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/26/indiewire-vidiots-launches-initiative-to-preserve-rare-vhs-with-1500-tapes-identified-so-far/

BBC: ‘Race against time’ to save Mary Rose video archive. “Students at the University of Portsmouth are digitising more than 600 tapes containing video footage of Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, which sank in the Solent…. The 40-year-old tapes have been deteriorating and there were fears that the video archive could be lost.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/23/bbc-race-against-time-to-save-mary-rose-video-archive/

College of Southern Nevada: Preserving the Past, Plant by Plant. “Thanks to a partnership with Clark County and funding through the Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, CSN has completed the digitization of more than 8,800 plant specimens from the Wesley E. Niles Herbarium.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/21/college-of-southern-nevada-preserving-the-past-plant-by-plant/

VBTC: 500 Custom Story and Song Tapes Now Digitized at Vanuatu Cultural Centre. “Around 500 rare audio tapes containing custom stories and traditional songs from Vanuatu are now being digitized—making them accessible via computer and phone for the first time.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/20/vbtc-500-custom-story-and-song-tapes-now-digitized-at-vanuatu-cultural-centre/

MassisPost: Institute of Armenian Studies Armen Aroyan Collection Now Available Through USC Digital Library . “The Collection comprises nearly 400 videos documenting group trips to Eastern Turkey––historical Western Armenia––between 1988 to 2016. The trips were organized by Armen Aroyan, an engineer and USC alum, mostly of American-Armenians visiting ancestral Armenian sites […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/19/massispost-institute-of-armenian-studies-armen-aroyan-collection-now-available-through-usc-digital-library/

Detroit Free Press: Decades of Michigan lake data, hidden in filing cabinets, digitized with volunteer help. “The 78 years of data on 1,300 Michigan lakes are now fully digitized and available to researchers and the public at the University of Michigan’s Deep Blue data repository. Resurrected from file cabinet drawers, the data is now being used to drive new research.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/18/detroit-free-press-decades-of-michigan-lake-data-hidden-in-filing-cabinets-digitized-with-volunteer-help/

AKCHABAR: 8% of Kyrgyzstan’s film, photo and sound archive digitised. “The digitisation of Kyrgyzstan’s audiovisual heritage is progressing, but remains at an early stage. As of 1 January this year, 8.1% of the documents in the Central State Film, Photo and Sound Archives of the Republic were stored in digital format. Of the nearly 200,000 items in storage (199,082), only 16,103 documents […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/15/akchabar-8-of-kyrgyzstans-film-photo-and-sound-archive-digitised/

Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley: 5000th item digitized!. “The Institute of Governmental Studies Library (IGSL) at UC Berkeley has reached a remarkable achievement: more than 5,000 local government documents from across California have been digitized and made freely accessible to the public! Launched in the summer of 2024, the project has digitized a sizable portion of its local […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/15/institute-of-governmental-studies-5000th-item-digitized/

Bailiwick Express: Moo-ving into the digital age… 200 years of cows, crops and farming curiosities to go online. “From potatoes to prize bulls, 200 years of farming life in Jersey is being preserved forever in a new digital archive. The Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society received a grant from the Jersey Community Foundation to digitise their archives, which date back to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/bailiwick-express-moo-ving-into-the-digital-age-200-years-of-cows-crops-and-farming-curiosities-to-go-online/

WHYY: ‘The Revolutionary City’ gives everyone access to original documents of Philly residents living through the war. “The revolutionary moment that gave birth to the United States 250 years ago had many stories. A new online archive aims to bring tens of thousands of them to life. A group of Philadelphia-area historical organizations are pooling their archives into ‘The Revolutionary […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/whyy-the-revolutionary-city-gives-everyone-access-to-original-documents-of-philly-residents-living-through-the-war/

Northeast News (India): NIMHANS digitises India’s oldest mental health files, unlocks 130-year-old archives. “The National Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences (NIMHANS) has launched an ambitious digital archive project, preserving and cataloguing one of the world’s largest collections of historical mental health records. The initiative, known as the NIMHANS Archiving Digital […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/northeast-news-india-nimhans-digitises-indias-oldest-mental-health-files-unlocks-130-year-old-archives/

Episcopal News Service: Virginia Humanities awards grant to digitize colonial era vestry books. “The project, entitled Laying the Leavy & Keeping the Poor: Lynnhaven & Elizabeth City Parish Records, 1723-1831, will digitize and make public the content of vestry books of two parishes in Virginia’s Tidewater: Lynnhaven Parish (established pre-1643) and Elizabeth City Parish (established […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/07/episcopal-news-service-virginia-humanities-awards-grant-to-digitize-colonial-era-vestry-books/

Internet Archive: Digitizing Democracy: Louis Brizuela Takes Viewers Behind Microfiche Scanning Livestream. “Brizuela and his six-person team are currently digitizing U.S. Supreme Court case documents and government records from Canada dating back to the 1930s. The documents are stored on microfiche cards, a flat, film-based format commonly used from the mid-20th century for preserving and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/27/digitizing-democracy-louis-brizuela-takes-viewers-behind-microfiche-scanning-livestream-internet-archive/

The New Indian Express: Ancient Arabic manuscripts from Malabar being digitised to preserve cultural heritage. “The Malaibar Foundation for Research and Development (MFRD), in partnership with the renowned Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) in Minnesota, has launched an ambitious project to digitise rare and endangered Arabic manuscripts from across India.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/24/new-indian-express-ancient-arabic-manuscripts-from-malabar-being-digitised-to-preserve-cultural-heritage/

Stanford University Libraries: Huey P. Newton Collection Digitized by Stanford Libraries with Mellon Grant. “The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Inc. Collection, the world’s largest and most comprehensive Black Panther Party archive, is now available through the Libraries’ online exhibit, Spotlight and catalog, SearchWorks.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/stanford-university-libraries-huey-p-newton-collection-digitized-by-stanford-libraries-with-mellon-grant/

KFDM: Hundreds of KFDM News tapes from the 70s and 80s being digitized for public viewing. “More than 600 tapes of KFDM newscasts from the 70s and 80s preserves history at the library from political events to everyday local news…. The collection takes up a large amount of space. Branch manager, Bill Grace, said this was one of the driving factors to digitize the tapes.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/kfdm-hundreds-of-kfdm-news-tapes-from-the-70s-and-80s-being-digitized-for-public-viewing/

ABNAse: 330 films get digitized in modern studio of State Film Archive. “Since January 2024, the film digitization studio at the Central State Film Archive [Albania] has managed to scan 330 film titles as well as over 4,620 image and sound reels, creating very high-quality digital assets.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/abnase-330-films-get-digitized-in-modern-studio-of-state-film-archive/

University of North Texas: Tim Owens Jazz and Broadcast Collection Digitized by a Generous Grant by The Recording Academy’s GRAMMY Museum Grants Program . “Thanks to a generous grant by The Recording Academy’s GRAMMY Museum Grants Program, the UNT Music Library is proud to debut a wealth of jazz history through the Tim Owens Jazz and Broadcast Collection. This newly digitized collection […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/08/university-of-north-texas-tim-owens-jazz-and-broadcast-collection-digitized-by-a-generous-grant-by-the-recording-academys-grammy-museum-grants-program/

Hürriyet Daily News : Manuscript collection now accessible online. “The manuscript collection of the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (TIEM), which has a significant place among manuscript archives in Türkiye, has been digitized and is now accessible to the public.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/05/hurriyet-daily-news-manuscript-collection-now-accessible-online/

Catholic News Agency: More than 80,000 manuscripts from the Vatican Library to be restored and digitized. “More than 80,000 ancient manuscripts from the Vatican Library will be restored and digitized thanks to an agreement with the Colnaghi Foundation. The initiative seeks to preserve unique documents and facilitate worldwide access to this treasure of the Church.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/02/catholic-news-agency-more-than-80000-manuscripts-from-the-vatican-library-to-be-restored-and-digitized/