From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Archives Outline

Archive of Egyptian Diplomatic Correspondence Written in the Diplomatic Language, Akkadian Cuneiform
(Circa 1,360 BCE – 1,330 BCE)

Knowledge as Power: The Earliest Systematically Collected Library as Distinct from an Archive
(668 BCE – 627 BCE)

How Herodotus Used Writing and Messages in his Histories
(Circa 450 BCE – 420 BCE)

The Tabularium, Archives of Republican Rome, is Founded
(Circa 78 BCE)

Origins of the Lateran Library
(Circa 350 CE – 650)

Foundation of the Tresor des Chartes
(July 3, 1194)

The Domus Conversorum, Later the Public Record Office
(1253)

The First Separate Publication on Archives
(1632)

The First Anthology on Libraries and Library Science
(1666)

First Published Rules for Archival Operation?
(1678)

Foundation of Palaeography and Diplomatics
(1681)

The Word Palaeography Coined
(1708)

The First English History of Paleography and Diplomatics
(1784)

Foundation of the Archives nationales de France
(1790)

Foundation of the Ecole nationale des chartes
(February 22, 1821)

Foundation of the Public Record Office
(1838)

Standardization of Archival Practice
(1898)

Jenkinson Publishes A Manual of Archive Administration
(1922)

Foundation of the U.S. National Achives
(June 19, 1934)

Founding of the Society of American Archivists
(December 1936)

The Bettmann Archive; the Beginning of the Visual Age
(1938)

The Society of Archivists (England) is Founded
(1947)

Archival Records Include "Machine-Readable Materials"
(1950)

The Largest Archive of Digital Social Science Data
(1962)

The Management of Archives
(1965)

Acquiring New Archival Material at the Rate of 1 Mile per Year
(Circa 1970)

First Formally Recognized Archival Description Standards in the U.S.
(1982)

The Digital Domesday Project--Doomed to Early Digital Obsolescence
(1984 – 1986)

Slow Fires
(1987)

NSF Digital Libraries Initiative
(1994)

The Internet Archive
(1996)

Origins of Australia's Web Archive
(1998)

NARA Begins ERA for Preservation of Digital Archives
(1998)

On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age
(1998)

Storing Public Records Electronically
(1999)

NewspaperARCHIVE.com
(1999)

MINERVA to Preserve Open-Access Web Resources
(2000)

National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
(December 21, 2000)

The Digital Preservation Coalition
(January 2001)

Open Archival Information System
(January 2001)

Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities
(May 2002)

Privacy of Medical Records and Electronic Data
(April 14, 2003)

Netpreserve.org
(July 2003)

40,000,000,000 Web Pages
(2005)

The First Intelligible Word from an Extinct South American Civilization?
(August 12, 2005)

Electronic Records Archives System
(September 8, 2005)

Preservation of Digital Objects
(September 15 – September 16, 2005)

Universally Accessible Digital Archive
(October 3, 2005)

The Wayback Machine
(2006)

Data Curation as a Profession
(2006)

A Research Library Based on Historical Collections of the Internet Archive
(February 2006)

Access to Nearly One Million Archive Collection Descriptions
(March 2006)

The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive
(October 29, 2006)

Europeana, the European Digital Library, Museum and Archive
(November 20, 2008)

The BBC Intends to Place 200,000 Oil Paintings on the Internet
(January 28, 2009)

The Largest Municipal Archive in Germany Collapses During Underground Construction
(March 3, 2009)

The WARC Format as an International File Preservation Standard
(June 1, 2009)

Costs of Managed Archiving versus Passive Archiving of Data
(June 4, 2009)

Stanford University Libraries & Archives in Second Life
(July 31, 2009)

Biological Journals to Require Data-Archiving
(January 2010)