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How to Prepare a Digital Kirksville Local-History Collection for Donation to an Archive

Prepare an archival donation by contacting the repository first, preserving original arrangement, creating a portable inventory, documenting provenance and rights, identifying restrictions, generating checksums and keeping a donor copy until transfer is verified.

Synthetic historical photographs circulating as ordinary archival images | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: An old-looking image can acquire the authority of a historical photograph after a few reposts, even when no camera, photographer, archive record, or original event exists behind it.

Ancient Web: A Columbine Site Preserves an Important Warning About Fake Web Mirrors

A Columbine Site's page on Eric Harris's old webpages is most valuable as a provenance record: it explains which material was actually preserved, what was lost, and why later mock-ups were wrongly circulated as authentic mirrors.