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Smithsonian and others will use Filecoin to safeguard digital culture heritage

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Museums are keeping real world images safe for posterity. But what about digital images? Filecoin Foundation is stepping up today to preserve cultural artifacts in digital form using its decentralized network technology.

Filecoin Foundation (FF) today announced the addition of new cultural datasets to the Filecoin network from renowned organizations, including Smithsonian Institution, Flickr Foundation, Internet Archive, and MIT Open Learning.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.