Digital Natives: Digital Preservation Is Cultural Literacy

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Digital Preservation Is Cultural Literacy
By Kary Kraus
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kari-kraus/digital-preservation-is-cultural-literacy_b_1455752.html

Article about LoC's effort to reach out to children -- digital natives, so called -- regarding preservation of personal digital materials. Informative article.

Cloud storage

Pointed from National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program.

Cloud storage: a pricing and feature guide for consumersBy Casey Johnston
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/cloud-storage-a-pricing-and-feature-guide-for-consumers.ars

Cloud storage is certainly a direction that people (IT people at least) are heading. But so many questions need to be answered in that cloudy area. Social norms, laws, and everyday practice need to go along with IT development.

My colleague, Tanya, dropped this cartoon when she saw this in the New Yorker during her Thanksgiving trip to home. Cartoon Published November 21, 2011

Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit

Relatively old but interesting news article found while I was looking for resources about a definition of "digital decay." 

Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit
By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: March 15, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/books/16archive.html?pagewanted=all

"At Emory, Mr. Rushdie’s outdated computers presented archivists with a choice: simply save the contents of files or try to also salvage the look and organization of those early files.": I will say BOTH and MORE.

Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past and MUSE from Stanford Univ.

Again, thanks to the laser eyes of my advisor, Pat Galloway,

Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39917/?p1=A1

I am still digesting the potential impact of this kind of technology on our reflexive use of everyday digital footprints and personal digital archiving. But it is indeed interesting.

MUSE, Stanford University,
http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/muse/
Muse is an open source e-mail archiving tool developed in the Stanford University. I recently had a chance to meet Sudheendra Hangal in the Stanford University, a creator of the Muse -- an outcome of well thought through research in academia.

The Afterlife of an Archive

The Afterlife of an Archive
September 26, 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education

My advisor, Pat Galloway, dropped this link in my inbox.
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Afterlife-of-an-Archive/124564/

I never get tired of having these interesting stories.

Notes from Personal Archiving 2012, Internet Archives

Personal Archiving website: http://www.personalarchiving.com/

Some of the interesting Websites mentioned

By Stan James http://scanwithstan.com/
By Jonathan Harris http://cowbird.com/
By Kaliya Hamlin http://www.identitywoman.net/
Commercial site: Pinterest http://pinterest.com/

"Are we digital hoarders?"
The conference has been amazingly fun and great. The only thing that I make me think negatively is that people using the term "digital hoarder" somewhat casually, for example "I am a digital hoarder." Although I am aware that people have different definitions of words that they are using, hoarding or hoarder carries a psychological sense or at least a sense of excessive behavior that causes some sort of abnormality in everyday lives. Simply because people tend to collect more, a lot more, digital information, it does not seem appropriate to "tag" it as a hoarding behavior. Also, I do not feel right about using the term casually since there are people who need professional help due to this type of abnormal behavior.

"Pro-active approach"
Another thing makes me want to raise my hands is a repetitive emphasis on "pro-active approach." As a person with archives and preservation background, I fully understand the benefits and necessity of proactive approach. I am all for it. However, I also want to be a bit critical and rethink about it. Meanings, values, memories, and especially narratives that many people in here advocate to capture, are changing constantly closely related to the course of life, depending on the very context of life. Proactive approach might miss this delicate, complex, and dynamic nature of the life-long relationship between people and their digital documents.

Email is Where Knowledge Goes to Die–Or is it?

Reminded by my advisor, Pat Galloway...

Another interesting post from Library of Congress's The Signal blog about e-mail messages.  
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/02/email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die-or-is-it/

"And yet. Email is a fantastic resource for documenting and remembering.": Based on what many of my participants said -- regardless complex mixed feelings toward e-mails addressed during interviews -- , I think so too.

"email “as one of the most interesting types of historical record being created in our times,”": Indeed.

Keeping analogue memories in a digital age

Dean Dillon forwarded this link to me....a while ago. Watched this again today while writing my dissertation.

"Keeping analogue memories in a digital age"

BBC Friday, 2 December 2011
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9652119.stm

Nice video report from BBC about digitizing and preserving family home movies and films.

if I die: facebook app

Jeanine Finn, a good colleague of mine, sent this link to me: http://ifidie.net/

It is about time that we will see more of these things, a lot more:
"if i die is the first and only facebook application that enables you to create a video or a text message that will only be published after you die"

What is case study?

"Sometimes we simply have to keep our eyes open and look carefully at individual cases – not in the hope of proving anything, but rather in the hope of learning something!" (Eysenck, 1976)

This sentence made my day today. This is what qualitative research is about.