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Preserving and Restoring LGBTQ+ Archive

At InfoShow23, students from fall 2022 and spring 2023 sections of INFO 665 Projects in Digital Archives discussed their work preserving, restoring and providing access to digitized archives from the Lesbian Herstory Archives. The project won 2nd Prize for Best Group Project at InfoShow23, the annual showcase of student work. To view the slide deck and more details on the project, please visit the page on the InfoShow website .

Additional details about this work can be found in this Pratt news article.


graphic outlining digitization equipment used on project, which includes hardware such as the Pioneer RT-701 Tape Decks, Nikon SuperCoolScan 5000, U-Matic Player, CRT TV, Epson Scanner, lightpad, and iphone camera, Blackmagic Design Ultrastudio 4K analog-to-digital converter capture, software including audacity, adobe premiere, media encoder, and photoshop, and repairing tools like a splicing block, blade, blue splicing tape and leader tape