The library will bring together content from Open Source providers and global publishers. Designed for low-bandwidth environments using a local network topology, the platform is device agnostic and can be accessed via mobile phones, e-readers and low-cost tablets.

A combined hardware and software solution making cloud storage affordable. For $10 per month you get a full Terabyte of storage, and Space Monkey claims to be up to 60x faster than other cloud services. Can't beat that!

Great project to continue the growth of the atotaldisruption.com web portal and repository for the stories of technology. A highly searchable database will be created from hundreds of hours of interviews with the biggest minds in the tech world.

Concept: A network of low-cost, digitally powered libaries deployed along the expanding fiber optic infrastructure in the developing world. In Africa, Ghana has emerged as a technology leader so the plan is to launch there.

This is a wonderful project to experience early video gaming for a new generation.

This is a wonderful emulation project!

The main mission of the festival is to promote the preservation of obsolete computers and offer attendees the chance to experience a range of vintage technologies, as well as learn about the computer revolution.

A simple, intuitive online DIY tool to encourage creative digital book publishing in all sizes and scope. Money raised will fund development and hosting costs for "the best free tool for e-books on the planet."

This project will preserve the audio archive of sermons delivered by Rev. Coffin at New York's Riverside Church from 1977-1987. A full digital set will be provided to Yale University to store with his papers, as well as be made available through a project website.

A former software engineer for the Harvard Library is hoping to educate the non-specialist and spread the word on the importance of digital preservation. An affordable e-book is planned to bring the subject to a wide audience.

The goal is to digitally remaster and re- release this film, begun in 1978 at NYU film school and completed in 1983. It was shot by Tom DiCillo and sound was recorded by Jim Jarmusch. If the project is successful, next up is the Howard Brookner archive.

Ben Model, silent film accompanist and collector, wants to share his silent shorts via DVD and YouTube. The films will be rescued from 16mm safety film, their historical home movie rental format. Transfers will be to HD, with newly written musical scores created by Mr. Model.

Learn the basics of PHP, an open source programming language, and build on your knowledge of website and application creation. This tutorial will teach you to modify existing code with confidence, even if you didn't write it.

Weaving in the digital age! The artist will create digital images of bamboo and translate them into weaving data. Fabrics will be woven on a computer-linked loom using bamboo threads at the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts in Taiwan, and then transformed into textile art.

The Experimental Sound Studio and Creative Audio Archive houses a collection of live music recorded in Chicago between 1981-2006. This project will transfer and preserve 1,000 unique recordings in various formats and share them around Chicago via pop up listening stations.

The goal is to publish the ultimate retrospective for this pioneering games company, from the early 16-bit era through the best selling Amiga days. Never before seen archival material will be pulled from the Sensible vaults to supplement the narrative.

The vision is to create a digital home for global breakfast lecture series, CreativeMornings. With 34 chapters and growing, there are stories, ideas and advice from the world's leading creative minds to fill an archive.

This project aims to collect and document the history and culture of an urban political movement from the 1960s and 70s that sought to create progressive change in Puerto Rican and Latino communities. An online version is planned.

Preserving and sharing images made on glass plate negatives by little known photographers working from the 1880s to 1930s is what drives this project. The initial goal is to clean and scan 100 images that capture our country's early development.

Described as an art piece and a resource, a databank of ideas and inspiration, The Archive of Desire is open-sourced and crowd created. Putting it online will make it searchable and open to contributions.

This project proposes a fresh approach to telling rich, in-depth and interrelated New York city stories that are outside of the 24/7 news cycle and within the context of emerging digital and multi-media formats.

More interesting activity from Jason Scott of textfiles.com

Expanding on a photo essay for Time.com, this project hopes to create a multimedia website to capture a portrait of poverty in America at this point in time. Field interviews will give voice to those behind the statistics and a social media component will encourage conversation.

A photographer and naturalist wants to heighten awareness of native botanicals by traveling to US ecoregions most in need of land restoraton to document and salt print images of endangered plants. His plan is communication and educational outreach through art!

The independent, nonprofit Boston Review is in the final phase of redesigning and modernizing their web site. The goal is to cultivate an online community by putting their archives and print content on the web in an effort to reach as many readers as possible.

To preserve digital heritage we need to also cultivate communities that understand its importance. With Inside Out The Santa Cruz Public Library has embarked on an interactive community building photography project.

This campaign will fund the completion of a documentary about this pioneering video collective from the 1970s, as well as continue the restoration of historically signigicant footage from the Videofreex archive with help from Video Data Bank.

Git-annex leverages the git distributed version control system to help archivists, scientists, and regular geeky folks drop large files into a folder and have them automatically checked into git and synced out to your personal cloud and other storage devices.

As readers around the world get more of their news online, street papers have announced a digital initiative to keep up with the times. Pilot programs in the UK and Chicago will help build a web based technology platform to enable street papers to make the digital transition.

Dean Bullock's grandson plans to scan and archive a large collection of images by a man who "never put the camera down." He will create a book highlighting the best photographs by this "world traveler and family man."

A great project to expand web archiving activities by capturing images of major newspapers on a regular basis. A perfect project for NDSA support!

An American photographer hopes to continue her bicycle expedition through western China and the borderlands to document and bring awareness to disappearing and threatened cultural and religious practices of hidden communities in this region.

To preserve the literary heritage of science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick, this bibliographic project will reference more than 600 editions of his work. Plans include a limited edition hardcover, on-demancd trade paperback, with ebook editions to follow.

Who does not need a few more open access heroes? This collection aims to make depictions of all types of heroic characters created by artists freely available for anyone to use in making new games or other forms of artwork.

Using Interactive Fiction to engage and inform, this project introduces the people of colonial Williamsburg and explores the circumstances leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Help fund the home stretch production of this film documenting the efforts of two citizen reporters as they chronicle the rapid evolution of a China deep in a social and cultural struggle for preservation of the past while at the same time reaching for the future.

Building on some of the work of the Singularity&Co project to Save the SciFi (which we also highlighted), ~Archive will rescue and preserve the really-hard-to-find materials that fall through the cracks.

3TON Cinema, an archive of independent 16mm film, needs to inventory, appraise and relocate their unique collection to make sure these works are available to share for years to come.

Cool project to do archival preservation and digitization on historic Sci-Fi materials.

This is a local library effort to preserve and highlight village of Nyack historic newspapers from the years when artist Edward Hopper lived there. These resources will be part of a digital archive of Hudson Valley newspapers hosted by the SE New York Library Resources Council.

Keeping costs to less than $500 for a kit, the Gado 2 will help open up the possibility of digitization to smaller archives and those with limited financial resources. You may even want one for your personal archive.

Untold LA is a historical and architecturally amazing, nearly forgotten district of LA. To live there the deed convenant specified you had to spend a bounty to build, and the home could not be sold or rented to black folk. The covenant was challenged and the Force prevailed.