[Personal_archives] Internet Archive Digital Preservation conference (16 Feb 2010)

[Rodney Carter]

Hello All,

The Internet Archive held a one-day conference on Personal Digital Archives
on Tuesday http://www.archival.tv/personal-archives/ . I just heard about it
today but it looks like the impressive list of speakers (including our
friends Susan Thomas & Cathy Marshall) were discussing issues that are very
close to our hearts:


   - What new social norms around preservation, access, and disclosure are
   emerging?
   - How can we cope with the shift from simple (e.g. text) to rich media
   (e.g. moving images) in personal collections?
   - What is the gap between current possibilities for preserving personal
   collections, and what is actually needed by both individuals and
   institutions?
   - What tools and services are needed to better enable self-archiving?
   - What new economic models to support personal archives may be evolve?
   - What are the long term rights management issues? Are there unrecognized
   stakeholders we should begin to account for now?
   - Can we better anticipate (and measure) losses of personal material?
   - Do libraries, museums, and archives have a new responsibility to
   collect personal materials?
   - What has already failed? Can we generalize about approaches that are
   likely to fail over time?
   - What are the options for cultural heritage institutions — libraries,
   museums, and archives — that want to preserve the personal collections of
   citizens and scholars, creators and actors?
   - What might be the risks of building archiving systems that are “too
   good” or overly applied?
   - What are the projects we can commit to in the coming year?

Twitter featured folks taking notes and providing reactions (in 140
character bursts) which you can find by searching :
*#pda2010<http://twitter.com/search?q=%23pda2010>

*I haven't sifted through all the tweets but one of interest provided a link
to slides of the presentation given by Cal Lee (UNC) which can be found
here: http://www.ils.unc.edu/callee/personal-archives-2010-lee.pdf . More
papers & presentations on issues of digital preservation can be found on his
site http://www.ils.unc.edu/callee/

Rod
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