Why everyone has to be a historian in the digital age

Why everyone has to be a historian in the digital age
By Katie Beck and Charlene Pele
BBC World News America

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8999128.stm

This article is not far from the idea of "citizen archivists."

Piecing Together 'The World's Largest Jigsaw Puzzle'
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162369606/piecing-together-the-worlds-largest-jigsaw-puzzle

The story makes me to think of what archives are for.

Hoping To Pass On Your iTunes Collection? Good Luck

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/04/160562390/hoping-to-pass-on-your-itunes-collection-good-luck

Interesting piece from the National Public Radio discussing legal issues related to digital possessions: Robert Siegel talks with Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, about what happens to your iTunes library when you pass away.

The Day of Digital Archives is making a return: October 12, 2012

Kindly pointed to me by Catherine Hobbs, the Literary Archivist (English-language) at Library and Archives Canada.

Interesting project blog where you can hear stories from archivists and preservation professionals who want to "help raise awareness of digital archives among both users and managers."

http://dayofdigitalarchives.blogspot.com/

Image and Spatial Data Analysis Group

Image and Spatial Data Analysis Group: Digital Preservation
http://isda.ncsa.illinois.edu/drupal/category/keywords/digital-preservation

Interesting site covering issues related to digital preservation overall, especially with a strong tech-centered approach and tools

Digital Natives: Digital Preservation Is Cultural Literacy

Redirected from the LoC,

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.