When Data Disappears
By KARI KRAUS
Published: August 6, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/when-data-disappears.html
A good friend, Joanne, forwarded this article to me this morning.
Interesting article, but a bit cliche.
Digital preservation is not about preserving media themselves, but about preserving bits and bites, which requires real fresh eyes and idea of of digital preservation.
"With data, intervention needs to happen earlier, ideally at an object’s creation. And tough decisions need to be made, early on, regarding what needs to be saved. We must replace digital preservation with digital curation.": This is the interventionists' perspective, far goes back to David Bearman in 1990's.
"Instead, we must look for ways to continuously maintain and improve it. In other words, we must stop preserving digital material and start curating it.": I think that we need to re-define "preservation" in a digital environment, rather than "stop". So we can make sure the philosophy, symbolic meanings, and history of cultural heritage preservation continue and also evolve.
"No wonder preservationists often wax ominous about the “digital dark ages.”": Still we do?
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
When I Go Away: Getting Your Digital Affairs in Order. The Signal: Digital Preservation
Ashenfelder, Mike. (2011).
When I Go Away: Getting Your Digital Affairs in Order. The Signal: Digital Preservation.
Recent article (published several days ago!) suggesting four steps to prepare personal digital materials online after our lives.
"Nowadays when we prepare a will, we have the added responsibility of leaving instructions to our loved ones about what to do with our online things after we die."
When I Go Away: Getting Your Digital Affairs in Order. The Signal: Digital Preservation.
Recent article (published several days ago!) suggesting four steps to prepare personal digital materials online after our lives.
"Nowadays when we prepare a will, we have the added responsibility of leaving instructions to our loved ones about what to do with our online things after we die."
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Your Digital Beyond: How to plan for your digital afterlife
NBC Action News.com
Posted: 05/12/2011
By: Christina Medina
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/science_tech/your-digital-beyond-how-to-plan-for-your-digital-after-life-may2011swp
Posted: 05/12/2011
By: Christina Medina
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/science_tech/your-digital-beyond-how-to-plan-for-your-digital-after-life-may2011swp
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Emails key to 'digital memory for the future
From Neil Beagrie's Blog posting, "Digital Preservation and Personal Digital Archives on BBC Radio 4": http://blog.beagrie.com/2011/04/21/digital-preservation-and-personal-digital-archives-on-bbc-radio-4/
BBC Raido 4 : Emails key to 'digital memory for the future
Thursday, 21 April 2011 09:18 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9464000/9464240.stm
Richard Ovenden's interview contains almost every single word that is necessary to mention regrading the current personal digital archives research.
BBC Raido 4 : Emails key to 'digital memory for the future
Thursday, 21 April 2011 09:18 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9464000/9464240.stm
Richard Ovenden's interview contains almost every single word that is necessary to mention regrading the current personal digital archives research.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Digital legacy: Respecting the digital dead
Digital legacy: Respecting the digital dead
Updated 10:47 06 May 2011 by Sumit Paul-Choudhury
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20445M
Interesiting article that I heard from Personal Archive list serv. It briefly covers key problems that many of us (including archivists) could experience or confront when we think of long lives of our digital materials beyond our own life times. The article, however, makes me think again about the notion of "citizen archivists" by Richard Cox, especially related to developing digital archiving tool. Perosnal digital archiving is and will be the concern for every digital users and closely tied to our everyday personal information management methods.
"As soon as you turn a computer on, you start changing dates": This is so true and has been an issue for digital preservation.
Updated 10:47 06 May 2011 by Sumit Paul-Choudhury
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20445M
Interesiting article that I heard from Personal Archive list serv. It briefly covers key problems that many of us (including archivists) could experience or confront when we think of long lives of our digital materials beyond our own life times. The article, however, makes me think again about the notion of "citizen archivists" by Richard Cox, especially related to developing digital archiving tool. Perosnal digital archiving is and will be the concern for every digital users and closely tied to our everyday personal information management methods.
"As soon as you turn a computer on, you start changing dates": This is so true and has been an issue for digital preservation.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Preservationists vs. Deletionists
One of my colleagues, Craig Blaha, forwarded this to me.
Digital Legacy: The Fate of Your Online Soul
New Scientist (04/23/11) Sumit Paul-Choudhury
http://www.newscientist.com/
I will say that we are "preservationists" AND "deletionists" in real.
Digital Legacy: The Fate of Your Online Soul
New Scientist (04/23/11) Sumit Paul-Choudhury
http://www.newscientist.com/
I will say that we are "preservationists" AND "deletionists" in real.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Personal digital archives: Preservation of documents, preservation of self
Dissertation proposal [PDF]: Personal digital archives: Preservation of documents, preservation of self. Sarah Kim, defended and passed on December, 2010.
Abstract:
Personal archiving is a practice through which people manage and preserve documents that have
particular meanings to them for a long time. The pervasive use of digital technology in everyday
life changes the way that people interact with documents and thus have an influence on archiving
practices. Viewing personal archiving as a self-reflective practice that involves psychological
and social processes of reviewing, understanding, and presenting life and self, the proposed study aims to explore digital archiving of ordinary individuals in relation to the construction of self. It uses in-depth case studies to gain a holistic understanding of how people conduct and experience archiving in a digital environment as close to research participants‟ perspectives as possible. Findings of the proposed study will eventually contribute to development of a theory or a model of personal digital archiving, which can have implications for research on digital cultural heritage preservation and personal information management/archiving tools and services design.
Abstract:
Personal archiving is a practice through which people manage and preserve documents that have
particular meanings to them for a long time. The pervasive use of digital technology in everyday
life changes the way that people interact with documents and thus have an influence on archiving
practices. Viewing personal archiving as a self-reflective practice that involves psychological
and social processes of reviewing, understanding, and presenting life and self, the proposed study aims to explore digital archiving of ordinary individuals in relation to the construction of self. It uses in-depth case studies to gain a holistic understanding of how people conduct and experience archiving in a digital environment as close to research participants‟ perspectives as possible. Findings of the proposed study will eventually contribute to development of a theory or a model of personal digital archiving, which can have implications for research on digital cultural heritage preservation and personal information management/archiving tools and services design.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Book: After Death, Protecting Your 'Digital Afterlife'
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/10/132617124/after-death-protecting-your-digital-afterlife
The Digital Beyond Website: It provides an digital death related online service list
Monday, November 22, 2010
New Clip: Internet Commenters: This Is You
"One day Collier took his curiosity a little further and began to compile a list of comments from a particularly prolific member on IMDB.com (the Internet Movie Database).
He realized, viewed as a whole, the comments created something close to a profile or character sketch of the person writing them.
Collier took the concept to McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers, who liked the idea. Collier has featured 10 commenters since March.
"The good ones reveal themselves — after a lot of looking — to be kind of characters," Collier says. "They're not an exact representation of who this person is, but they are real characters." "
NPR Internet Commenters: This Is You
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/20/131471581/internet-commenters-this-is-you
He realized, viewed as a whole, the comments created something close to a profile or character sketch of the person writing them.
Collier took the concept to McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers, who liked the idea. Collier has featured 10 commenters since March.
"The good ones reveal themselves — after a lot of looking — to be kind of characters," Collier says. "They're not an exact representation of who this person is, but they are real characters." "
NPR Internet Commenters: This Is You
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/20/131471581/internet-commenters-this-is-you
Monday, April 5, 2010
Research method for personal digital archiving research
I have been exploring Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) as a research method for my dissertation. IPA's idiographic and inductive approach seems like a perfect match for studying personal digital archiving practices in everyday lives.
Interesting short articles about IPA:
Smith, J. A. (2004). Reflecting on the development of interpretative phenomenological analysis and its contribution to qualitative research in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1(1), 39-54.
Larkin, M., Watts, S., & Clifton, E. (2006). Giving voice and making sense in interpretative phenomenological analysis. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 102-120.
Interesting short articles about IPA:
Smith, J. A. (2004). Reflecting on the development of interpretative phenomenological analysis and its contribution to qualitative research in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1(1), 39-54.
Larkin, M., Watts, S., & Clifton, E. (2006). Giving voice and making sense in interpretative phenomenological analysis. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 102-120.
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