The following is a quick roundup of noteworthy out-of-town digital projects related to this month’s theme of DISASTERS.

Internet Archive: 2016 Pulse Nightclub Shooting Web Archive

“This collection includes web material related to the June 12, 2016 mass shooting perpetrated at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, its victims, and its impacts on the local and global LGBTQ and Latinx communities. It includes news reports and blog posts, social media feeds, interactive timelines, and videos.”

New Orleans: Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

“Launched in 2005, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and other partners, organized this project.”

Anonymous, “St. Paul's School, New Orleans,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed July 4, 2016.

New Zealand: CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive

“CEISMIC is an archive built to preserve the knowledge, memories and experiences surrounding the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. The archive brings together images, video, audio, and documents from a wide range of organisations and individuals, and makes them easily searchable.

The shaky isles: Canterbury & other quakes, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga via CEISMIC.

Cleveland: A People’s Archive of Police Brutality

“A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland exists as an online archive to collect, preserve, and provide access to the stories, memories, and accounts of police violence as experienced or observed by Cleveland citizens. Organized in the summer of 2015 by a combination of Cleveland residents and professional archivists from across the United States, the Archive hopes to provide the Cleveland community--especially survivors of police violence and the families of victims--a safe and secure space to share any testimony, documents, or accounts that narrate or reflect on encounters or effects of police violence in their lives or communities.

Puncture the Silence, “PTS August kickoff meeting flyer,” A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland, accessed July 4, 2016.