Planning digital archiving of Occupy Wall Street records
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The document summarizes the efforts of the Occupy Wall Street Archives Working Group to archive both analog and digital materials from the Occupy Wall Street movement. It discusses the challenges of planning for long-term preservation, collecting born-digital content, using tools like Omeka and Bulkr, establishing terms for donations, and collaborating with other archival organizations. While progress was made in gathering over 500GB of data, challenges remain in establishing a sustainable model for continued preservation efforts.
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Planning digital archiving of Occupy Wall Street records
- 1. Planning for the short and long term stewardship of Occupy Wall Street’s digital records
- 4. All day, all week, Occupy Wall Street! Occupation of Zuccotti Park (Liberty Square) began 9/17/11 Eviction from park 11/15/11 The Occupied Office (November 2011-2/1/12) Shipping Information & Storage (SIS) (mid October 2011--5/1/12) 60 Wall Street (September 2011-present?)
- 8. The Occupy Wall Street Archives Working Group Core team Mailing list action People who came to meetings Advisors Organizations
- 9. The analog archives Working group focused on analog materials The "paper archives" dominated discussions in the working group Working on terms for deed of gift Digitization of these materials was a goal that has yet to come together
- 10. Digital archives! Born digital materials If ____ gets digitized… Why isn’t this all online? Digitization does not equal preservation and it’s not an easy thing to do right
- 11. Digital archives project planning Initial commitment: 2 weeks to form a plan User interviews Assessment of needs and our goals Project plan Staffing/roles Tool selection (ongoing) Collaboration with creators Collaboration with advisors
- 12. Informal work with the Internet Archive Sent over 200 links to websites to harvest Deprioritized initial research interest Immediate access to collection is helpful Email suggestions to graham@archive.org
- 14. Bulkr Working group member complained about not being able to get own photos off Flickr Did a little research, discovered Bulkr & used it Pro version: file size variety and tidy metadata So far so good
- 22. Gmail OWSDigitalArchive@gmail.com OWSDigitalArchiveS@gmail.com forward: archives@nycga.org Planned to have people cc these addresses when printing flyers etc. Concerns about rights led to hesitation
- 23. The decision to not have orphaned works It would be very easy to end up with a lot of orphaned works The working group approved my proposal that we only collect CC licensed work There is no ‘OWS philosophy’ on licensing or problem with ‘exclusivity’ per se, we just didn’t want a ton of orphaned content
- 25. Omeka Free, open source, flexible, extensible Initiative of George Mason University/Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media PHP with useful plug ins Anticipated assessments, then compose feature requests to programmers in Tech Ops or others who know PHP and want to help
- 27. Omeka
- 29. Sharing and collecting digital files at Share Day at Eyebeam Collaboration with artist in residence at Eyebeam, Taeyoon Choi (Speakers Corners) Opportunity to share finished or works in progress with the audience and/or the OWS Archives Working Group The event was a lot of fun
- 41. Where is the project now? At a crossroads Test servers and plug ins have shown us a lot About 500 gigabytes of data Possible collaboration with activist owned tech company pending funds to pull own weight in the collective (membership model?)
- 42. Conclusions and take away R-E-S-P-E-C-T your creators and colleagues Talk to people who know the context Have a plan Make imperfect decisions instead of none Keep notes