<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Digital Archives on GenderLibs</title><link>https://www.genderlibs.org/tags/digital-archives/</link><description>Recent content in Digital Archives on GenderLibs</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright © 2024-2026 GenderLibs. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.genderlibs.org/tags/digital-archives/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>When History Becomes a PDF: A 2026 Observatory of Machine Readability and AI Discovery Interfaces in Mainland China’s Transgender Sources</title><link>https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-machine-readable-source-audit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-machine-readable-source-audit/</guid><description>Abstract A large share of mainland China’s recent transgender history survives as born-digital documents. National medical rules appear as government pages and attachments. Community surveys circulate as PDFs. Hospitals record the formation of clinical teams in news pages. Legal advocates reorganize litigation and regulation into topic pages. Digital archives then add author, year, original URL, file size, format, and checksum metadata to documents whose</description></item><item><title>How History Survives Web Change: A Digital Preservation and Discoverability Observatory for Mainland China’s Transgender Sources, 2009–2026</title><link>https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-source-survival-stack/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-source-survival-stack/</guid><description>Abstract Mainland China’s public transgender history increasingly lives on the web. A 2009 national medical-technology rule, the 2017 national transgender survey, medical and litigation records from the mid-2010s, and recent hospital guidance now circulate across government websites, institutional copies, community archives, specialist legal archives, general web archives, and search indexes. Each historical object therefore has several possible routes of entry. Page life cycles, crawl</description></item></channel></rss>