Texas Tech University (Texas Tech University, Office of Research Services)

Texas Tech University’s Archive of Modern American Warfare will plan a strategy for collecting and documenting the stories of U.S. soldiers in the digital age. Beginning with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of the photographs, videos, communications, and other personal records created by individual soldiers exist only in digital formats, and are at high risk of permanent loss. The project team will plan a cohesive strategy to identify and build partnerships with other organizations and collaborators, develop an outreach plan that helps soldiers understand their options on donating personal collections to a digital archive, select appropriate technologies and policies for a digital archive, and involve key stakeholder communities such as veterans groups and military historians.