International Conference on Cyber Humanities

Fondazione CR Innovation Center, Florence

We shared our Data Lifeboat project at this year’s IEEE CH 2025 conference. The conference explores novel concepts, technologies, solutions and applications to along the digital continuum including digitization, curation, protection, reuse and disseminate Digital Cultural Assets.

Tori presented our paper, Built to Last: Preserving user-generated networked images for the next century, on September 10th 2025. Read her re-cap of the event in the blog post here.

If you’d like to check out the supporting slides, you can find them here.

Welcome Rachel Frick to Our Board!

Digital libraries and cultural heritage leader, Rachel L. Frick, joins our Board of Directors.

Data Lifeboats at the XVI International Conference of the Image

Our second stop on the European conference circuit was Paris, for the Sixteenth International Conference on The Image where George and Tori shared the release of Data Lifeboat and the importance of citizen-driven collecting.

International Conference of Cyber-Humanities Recap

Tori shares her reflections on a recent conference in Florence, where she detailed our progress on the Data Lifeboat alpha alongside the value of collecting from social media for heritage practitioners.