The project was among the projects to recently win funding from UW2020, an initiative backed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to provide resources for innovative academic research.According to Jeremy Morris, the communications professor who launched PodcastRE, the project is saving cultural artifacts that are at risk of being lost. Unlike film reels or canvas paintings, podcasts are not vulnerable to decay, fire, humidity or mold. The threat they face is simply getting deleted from a server.
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