This panel brings together papers on anthropological data re-use in the digital era. Panelists will share new research as well as discussions from a Wenner-Gren sponsored workshop in June 2016, “Revitalizing CoPAR for the Digital Age.” In the 1990s, the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR) was founded to help “anthropologists, librarians, archivists, information specialists and others preserve and provide access to the record of human diversity and the history of the discipline.” Over the past 20 years, the field of Anthropology has changed dramatically, as have the records anthropologists produce. Today, the preservation and stewardship of anthropological records face new challenges as anthropologists create records in a wider range of formats, and as the re-use of these materials changes. Following on the conference’s theme of Evidence, Accident, Discovery, this panel discusses trends in re-uses of anthropological materials in digitized archival collections, and reflects on both unexpected uses of these materials and the ethical implications of digital anthropological data and their uses today.