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ARMA-CT, May 22, 2013TRANSCRIPT
Facing Up to ARMA-geddon:Preserving Cultural Records in the Digital Age
Gregory Colati, University of Connecticut
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The Dilemma of Modern Media, 1996 BEFORE YouTube, Facebook, and
Smartphones
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Dilemma of Modern Media, 1912
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Cultural Armageddon, 1980s
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Cultural Armageddon, 1990s
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Cultural Armageddon, 2000s
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Cultural Armageddon, 2011Source: University of Southern CaliforniaCredit: Todd Lindeman and Brian Vastag/ The Washington Post
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Cultural Armageddon, 2012
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Cultural Armageddon, 2013
“You may not incorporate the information… in any …archive”
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Cultural Armageddon: The Digital Attic
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Cultural Armageddon, 2013
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Cultural Armageddon, 2014?
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What Has Value?
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What is Noise?
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Everything can be data…
“When it was made simple, counted in bits, Information was found to be everywhere”
-James Gleick, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood (2011)
“It is not just about the data, it is about the story”
-Arianna Huffington (2012)
…and used to tell a story.
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Five Equations of the Cultural Record
Content =DataAnalog =Non-existent
Unconnected
=Invisible
Reusable =ValuableStorytellin
g=Visualization
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The Dilemma of Modern Scholarship
How do we insure that resources that support scholarship and research that exist
in digital form today will reliably exist and be discoverable in the future?
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Digital Repositories organize data… Digital representations of
analog originals Born digital objects with no
“original” analog form Still Images Data Sets Documents Moving Images Complex objects
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…to be used in one environment…
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/leonardo/
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… re-used in another…
http://www.bl.uk/app/treasures.html
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… to tell a story.
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Non-consumptive Analysis
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Four “–ity”s of the Digital Cultural Record Sustainability
The digital object can be maintained and accessed over time
Authenticity The digital object is reliably true to the original
Interoperability The ability of one standards-based object to
be used in any other standards-based system Reusability
Objects can be used in ways not related to original purpose
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Administration Presentation
Public facing
CHS
Contribution
Connecticut Digital ArchiveBackward facing
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Greg ColatiSr. Director
Archives, Special Collections and Digital Curation
University of Connecticut
Slides and text available at: http://www.slideshare.net/Gcolati/
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Credits (In order of appearance) Big Brother: http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncan/5510161001/ Paul Conway, Preservation in the Digital World http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2 Wax Cylinder: Flickr image from the National Film and Sound Archive Australia Brittle page: http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/about2.html Washington Post: http
://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2011/02/11/GR2011021100614.html Digital Universe: http://www.emc.com/leadership/programs/digital-universe.htm Singularity Hub:
http://singularityhub.com/2010/07/20/your-entire-life-recorded-lifelogging-goes-mainstream/
Justin TV: http://justin.tv Google glass: http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/ Iris: http://www.lowes.com/cd_Iris_239939199_ DCC Lifecycle model: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model Locomotive: Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut Leonardo’s notebook: http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/leonardo/ British Library tablet app: http://www.bl.uk/app/treasures.html Inventing Europe: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/inventing-europe Google Ngram viewer: http://books.google.com/ngrams/
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