This article was originally featured on Popular Photography. The PhotoScan app from Google is one of the quickest and easiest ways we’ve found to create high-quality digital versions of physical ...

Before smartphones and Instagram feeds, photographs were printed and stored in shoeboxes and albums. These tangible snapshots were the best way to revisit old memories: photos of great-grandparents, ...

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators estimate are held in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Like many of you, I have a hard time getting rid of stuff. I’ve got boxes and boxes of weirdo bits and bobs, and piles of devices that I’ll eventually get around to stripping down into even more bits ...

It’s all there on vinyl, tape, film, and paper–your memories, your creations, your collections–all your media memorabilia. But in analog form, the content is difficult and time-consuming to organize ...

PCWorld explains how to affordably digitize VHS tapes using a USB capture card, composite-to-HDMI adapter, and free OBS software. This method preserves old footage like family videos while offering ...

You might still have some old VHS tapes of home movies from the ’80s, but you probably don’t have a machine to play them on. And what about those old Super 8 reels gathering dust in the attic? While ...

In 2014, Mark Thompson, Jerry Fishenden, and I published Digitizing Government with an argument centred on what we called ...