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A presentation for the Connecticut League of History Organizations in May 2014 about the Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) and its services
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Stewards of CulturePreserving Cultural Records in the Digital Age
Gregory Colati, University of ConnecticutMay, 2014
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Preserving cultural heritage in the digital age is just like preserving culture in the analog age…
…except when it is different.
CLHO
The Dilemma of Modern Stewardship, 1814
How do we insure that resources that support cultural activities that exist
today will reliably exist and be discoverable in the future?
1814 2???
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Dilemma of Modern Media, 1912
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Cultural Armageddon, 1980s
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The Dilemma of Media, 1990s
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The Dilemma of Modern Media, 1996 BEFORE YouTube, Facebook, and Smartphones
May 2014
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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”
May 2014
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The Dilemma of Modern Media Files
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The Dilemma of Modern Documentation
May 2014
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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. May 2014
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5 Equations of the Cultural Record, 2014
Analog=Non-existentUnconnect
ed=Invisible
Reusable =ValuableStorytelling =VisualizationCollections=Data
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The Dilemma of Modern Stewardship, 2014
How do we insure that resources that support cultural activities that exist in
digital form today will reliably exist and be discoverable in the future?
2014 2???
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May 2014
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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 purposeMay 2014
The Bad NewsThe solution to the dilemma of modern stewardship:
• Is expensive to build and maintain;• Requires a large investment in technology
infrastructure;• Requires a standards-based management
system;• Can’t be purchased as a “complete
solution,” even if you could afford it.
The Good NewsCollaborative programs can make it possible for everyone to share the cost and the benefits of:
Consortial management systems; Large-scale repositories; Negotiated connections to national and
international aggregators;
While retaining local ownership and control.
Connecticut History
Content Owners Discovery & AccessInfrastructure
Aggregators
PreservationInfrastructure
Deposit Agreements & MOUs I l l u s t r a t e d
Organization Sites
Connecticut Digital Archive
CLHO
Greg ColatiSr. Director
Archives, Special Collections and Digital Curation
University of Connecticut
Slides and text available at: http://www.slideshare.net/Gcolati/
May 2014
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Credits (In order of appearance) Certificate of membership in Windham County Agricultural Society, Archives and
Special Collections, University of Connecticut, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:20110263
Wax Cylinder: Flickr image from the National Film and Sound Archive Australia Brittle page: http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/about2.html Paul Conway, Preservation in the Digital World http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2 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_ Locomotive: Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut
May 2014