Digital Archive for September 11 Materials Being Built

You may already know that there's an archive dedicated to saving Web sites as they appeared around the time of the September 11 attacks (and if you don't, it's available at http://september11.archive.org/ .)

Now there is an archive being created that collects photographs and digital images as well as e-mails and chat room conversations of the same day. It's available at http://911digitalarchive.org/ .

The site is divided into several different sections. Stories provide the perspective of ordinary people, with over 800 narratives of what life was like on September 11. The E-mail section contains over 400 e-mails of people communicating during September 11. The images archives contains over 600 images related to 9/11 (some of them are not of the sites themselves, but are pictures taken around 9/11) and the special collections section contains links to several different forms of media, including video, Flash movies, and discussion board conversations.

This archive also has a link to other 9/11 related sites and highlights of the holdings on the front page. An extensive collection and I suspect it'll only get larger.

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