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I had heard about such projects but until taking the Digital Collections class, I did not pay attention to data collection as much.   This article highlights the Human Speechome Project in which an MIT professor set up all types of recording materials in his house to record the first two and half years of his child’s life!  Can you image the enormous amount of data?   This is the gist of this article.  The use and challenges of data along with preservation.