JDNA: Journalism Digital News Archive

Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News forum organizers initiated a travel scholarship program for select graduate students to attend the forum at the UCLA Library on October 13–14, 2016. The travel scholarship committee was especially interested in working with students from underrepresented and underserved communities.

A Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported these DTMH-IMLS scholarships, which were offered to students enrolled in graduate programs (e.g., library/information science, journalism, computer science or related fields) in the U.S. A total of 16 students were selected for the awards. As part of their participation, recipients completed short-term projects supporting the goals of the conference.

Dodging the Memory Hole 2016 Scholarship Projects stories

  • Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 4

    Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 4

    The preservation of online news corrections, updates and post-publication edits.

  • Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 3

    Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 3

    The preservation of online news corrections, updates and post-publication edits.

  • Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 2

    Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 2

    The preservation of online news corrections, updates and post-publication edits.

  • Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 1

    Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 1

    The preservation of online news corrections, updates and post-publication edits.

  • John Berlin: Twitter Feed Monitoring and Automatic Archival Through WAIL

    John Berlin: Twitter Feed Monitoring and Automatic Archival Through WAIL

    John Berlin of Suffolk, Virginia, is a computer science student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where he works for the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group. His project is a report titled “Dodging the Memory Hole Project Report: Twitter Feed Monitoring and Automatic Archival Through WAIL.” The project seeks to extend the…

  • Hanna Soltys: DTMH 2016 Scholarship Project

    Hanna Soltys: DTMH 2016 Scholarship Project

    Hanna Soltys of St. Louis studies library and information science at Simmons College in Boston. Her project focuses on a look at the landscape of digital news, why digital news archiving solutions aren’t one-size fits all due to dynamic content and social media and examines solutions from other industries and entities working to save digital…

  • Matthew Hellman: Collective Cookbook: Best practices in visual archiving between news organizations

    Matthew Hellman: Collective Cookbook: Best practices in visual archiving between news organizations

    Matt Hellman of Austin, Texas, is a journalism student at the University of Missouri in Columbia. His project involves a case study of how the Columbia Missourian photography staff is using open source software to provide access to and create a cloud-based long-term archive for digital content. The final product is a professional project titled…

  • Terry Britt: Saving the future past: Digital news content archiving

    Terry Britt: Saving the future past: Digital news content archiving

    Terry Britt of Sweetwater, Tennessee, is a doctoral candidate studying journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia. His paper deals with deterioration of collective memory over time. Alongside a review of relevant literature on the challenges of media content preservation, both pre-digital and born-digital, and efforts toward that end, responses from a recent qualitative…

  • Mat Kelly: Final Report—Dodging the Memory Hole

    Mat Kelly: Final Report—Dodging the Memory Hole

    Mat Kelly of LaBelle, Florida, is a doctoral candidate studying computer science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His project addresses the need to provide individuals with ways to collect, archive and access news content they perceive as important. Kelly’s work is intended to supplement the large-scale collection work being done by institutions such…

  • Jiwon Choi: Eliminating the border of digital news archiving

    Jiwon Choi: Eliminating the border of digital news archiving

    Jiwon Choi of Osan, South Korea, is studying convergence journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Her powerpoint project addresses obstacles and solutions to online news archives for international media. Her project includes a literature review of the topic as well as a panel of international students from MU who explored and discussed the…