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Vanishing Culture: No Film Left Unscanned
"To think about film preservation is to think about much more than what we call movies."
By Rick Prelinger via @internetarchive
https://blog.archive.org/2025/03/05/vanishing-culture-no-film-left-unscanned/
"Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/nih-national-human-genome-project-institute-hgp-archives-trump-cuts/
(#paywalled)
"My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project [#HGP]...All of that work, like so much else at #NIH, is currently being dismantled...The digital archival records my colleagues and I maintained are currently inaccessible. I worry that they might be gone altogether, either now or sometime in the future."
#DefendResearch #Medicine #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
