February 11, 2019 — The New-York Historical Society is building its first-ever accessible archive of electronic material in all formats with a new, $1,000,000 award from the Leon Levy Foundation. Taking place over the course of five years, this project will both document the last three decades of the New-York Historical’s history, and implement best practices for digital archiving—a new and evolving process for cultural institutions. It will also position New-York Historical to begin actively collecting digital material as part of its collection development program, including documents, photographs, PowerPoint presentations, audio files, and video stored on a variety of media. New-York Historical will make the work products developed over the course of the project freely available to other repositories as possible templates.
February 28, 2019
