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

The Royal Library of Alexandria: The Largest Collection of Recorded Information in the Ancient World
(Circa 300 BCE)

The Portland Vase: Classical Conoisseurship, Influence, Destruction & Conservation
(30 BCE – 25 CE)

The Only Library Preserved Intact from Roman Times
(79 CE)

Over 11,000 Wall Inscriptions Survived from Pompeii
(79 CE)

Pamphilius Establishes a Library and Scriptorium
(200 CE – 300 CE)

Foundation of the Imperial Library of Constantinople
(Circa 330 CE)

Beowulf
(700 – 1000)

The Oldest Arabic Manuscript on Arabic Paper Preserved in Europe
(November – December 867)

The Norman Conquest Recorded on the Bayeux Tapestry
(1077)

King Roger Bans the Use of Paper
(1145)

Early Autograph Draft of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed
(Circa 1185)

Philobiblon
(1345)

Discovery of a Lost Painting by Michelangelo?
(1487 – 1488)

The First Major Antiquarian Collection Assembled in England
(1568)

The Largest Historic Chained Library in the World
(1611)

A Universal Language Based on a Classification Scheme or Ontology
(1668)

Printing as a Way to Preserve Information
(February 18, 1791)

Wood Pulp in Papermaking
(Circa 1843)

Michael Faraday on Decay in Leather Bookbindings
(April 7, 1843)

Using Microphotography for Document Preservation
(1851 – 1852)

The Sulfite Pulping Process for Manufacturing Paper
(1866)

One of the Most Dramatic Problems in the Preservation of Media
(1889)

The Largest and Most Diverse Collection of Medieval Manuscripts in the World
(1896 – 1897)

The Questionable Quality of Paper
(1898)

Problems with Leather Used in Bookbinding
(1905)

The Photomicrographic Book
(1907)

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

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

One of the Earliest Surviving British Television Dramas
(December 12 – December 14, 1954)

Longevity of Paper is a Function of its Acidity or Alkalinity
(Circa 1958)

The Largest Archive of Digital Social Science Data
(1962)

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

Flexible Image Transport System
(1980)

U.S. Newspaper Program Microfilms Newspapers
(1982)

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

The Perseus Digital Library Project
(1985)

Among the Earliest Practical Digital Libraries
(1985)

The First Digital Image Database of Cultural Materials
(1987)

Slow Fires
(1987)

Memory of the World Programme
(1992)

Preserving Access to Digital Information
(1993)

The Electronic Beowulf
(1993)

First Sourcebook on Digital Libraries?
(December 6, 1993)

NSF Digital Libraries Initiative
(1994)

Digital Library: Gross Structure and Requirements
(March 1, 1994)

The Digital Library Federation is Founded
(May 1, 1994)

Workshop on Digital Libraries
(May 18 – May 19, 1994)

Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(June 19 – June 21, 1994)

The National Digital Library Program is Announced
(October 13, 1994)

Task Force on Digital Archiving
(December 1994)

D-Lib Magazine
(July 1995)

The Kulturarw3 Project
(1996)

The Internet Archive
(1996)

Over One Billion Documents
(1996)

The First ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries
(March 20 – March 23, 1996)

IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries
(1997)

California Digital Library
(1997)

RLG DigiNews Begins Publication
(April 15, 1997)

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)

The Digital Michelangelo Project
(1998)

Storing Public Records Electronically
(1999)

"Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe"
(1999)

Over 5,000,000 Items in the National Digital Library Program
(2000)

MINERVA to Preserve Open-Access Web Resources
(2000)

The Wayback Machine
(2001)

The Digital Preservation Coalition
(January 2001)

Open Archival Information System
(January 2001)

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
(April 2001)

Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities
(May 2002)

How Much Information?
(2003)

Collecting and Preserving the World Wide Web
(February 23, 2003)

The First Automatic Page-Turning Scanner
(April 7 – April 9, 2003)

Netpreserve.org
(July 2003)

OCLC Serves More than 50,000 Libraries, Contains 56 Million Records
(2004)

Approximately 530 miles of Bookshelves
(2004)

The National Digital Newspaper Program
(March 2004)

The Google Print Project
(October 2004)

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

From the Sixth Century to the Twenty-First
(2005)

The Century of Science Initiative
(January 2005)

Proposal for a World Digital Library
(June 6, 2005)

Moratorium on Scanning Books
(August 11, 2005)

Electronic Records Archives System
(September 8, 2005)

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

Morphing in Two
(October 2005)

Universally Accessible Digital Archive
(October 3, 2005)

The Genetic Code of Avian Flu Virus H5N1 is Deciphered
(October 5, 2005)

A Plan to Create a World Digital Library
(November 11, 2005)

Google Books
(December 2005)

Maybe the World's Largest Physical Library
(December 2005)

The Wayback Machine
(2006)

Future-Proofing Websites
(January 19 – January 20, 2006)

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

World Wide Web History Center
(March 2006)

Digital Library Evolution
(March 2006)

Damage to Codex Atlanticus Caused by Efforts at Preservation
(April 2006)

A Critical Review at the Library of Congress
(April 3, 2006)

"The entire works of humankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages" would amount to 50 petabytes of data.
(May 14, 2006)

OCLC Merges with RLG
(July 1, 2006)

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

Previously Unknown Speeches by Hyperides
(November 2006)

The EPA Begins to Close its Scientific Libraries
(November 20, 2006)

Demanding that the U.S. EPA Desist from Destroying its Libraries
(November 30, 2006)

A Printed Book on Preserving Digital Information
(2007)

Data-Storing Bacteria Could Last Thousands of Years
(February 27, 2007)

It Would Take 1800 Years to Convert the Paper Records . . . .
(March 10, 2007)

DROID
(September 27, 2007)

The World's Oldest Oil Paintings Restored After Taliban Dynamite
(February 19, 2008)

Raphael's Madonna of the Goldfinch Restored 450 Years after it was Nearly Destroyed
(October 30, 2008)

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

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

'Material Degradomics" or, The Sniff Test
(September 17, 2009)

" A Library to Last Forever" ??
(October 9, 2009)

Biological Journals to Require Data-Archiving
(January 2010)

The Vatican Library Plans the Scanning of all its Manuscripts into the FITS Document Format
(March 24, 2010)

The Library of Congress to Preserve All "Tweets"
(April 14, 2010)

Using the Twitter Archive for Historical Research
(April 30, 2010)