Public and private organizations all across the country and around the world are undertaking the massive task of converting huge amounts of physical data and making it available online in digital formats. This is wonderful news for anyone that is interested in virtually any kind of information imaginable.
Libraries, museums, and other government organizations are digitizing documents, photos, videos, newspapers, and other historical records and artifacts and are creating digital collections on a wide variety of topics.
Digital FOIA public records would reduce costs and improve response times
Is social media archiving required for businesses and the government?
The importance of digitization standards and practices
Twitter archive will permanently store and provide access to all public tweets
Benefits and challenges of archiving the Internet
Reasons why we need more data scientists
Digital collections at Harvard Library
New York Public Library digital collections