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Capturing the ephemeral: Archiving our digital present
The document discusses the evolution of digital archiving from traditional methods to personal and institutional archives. It highlights the democratization of archiving, the challenges of data management, and the significance of individual contributions to collective memory. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of adapting to technological changes and the need for preserving digital content amidst inherent risks.
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- 1. Capturing the ephemeral: Archivingour digital present Sanjana Hattotuwa Centre for Policy Alternatives TED Fellow Alumn
- 2. Origin early 17thcent. (in the sense ‘place where records are kept’): from French archives (plural), from Latin archiva, archia, from Greek arkheia ‘public records’, from arkhē ‘government’. ! The verb dates from the late 19th Century.
- 3. perspective non-expert serialdigitiser
- 4. the change atomsto bits
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- 6. archive annotated storage{meta data}
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- 9. stone to weblarge and heavy to 1s and 0s
- 11. the web apersonal archive for all every single person on earth
- 13. 1 billion activeusers on mobile as of March 2014 ! 350 million photos uploaded every day ! 1.23 billion monthly active users as of December 2013
- 16. democratisation of archiving ! folksonomyvs. taxonomy ! corporate ownership of private collections
- 17. democratisation of the archive costand access of personal archiving
- 18. unlimited storage boundedonly by imagination
- 20. broadband faster andcheaper web access
- 21. institutional archives savingdigital history
- 34. personal archives subjectivecuration
- 37. • Army (1) •Berghof Foundation (2) • CaFFE – Election Monitoring (1) • Citizens Commission (1) • Citizens.lk (1) • COI (1) • Colombo Art Biennale 2014 (1) • Colomboscope (1) • Cost of War (1) • CPA (1) • Dept. of Census and Statistics (1) • Development (1) • Eastern Revival (1) • FMM (1) • Groundviews (1) • IIGEP (2) • InfoShare (1) • Jayantha Dhanapala (1) • JVP (1) • LLRC Action Plan (1) • LLRC NAP (1) • LTTE Dept. of IR (1) • LTTE Peace Secretariat (2) • MCNS (1) • Media at risk (1) • Milinda Moragoda (1) • National Freedom Front (1) • National Housing Policy (1) • NESOHR (1) • Official Languages Commission (1) • PACT (1) • Political parties (2) • Regaining Sri Lanka (1) • SCOPP (3) • SLPI & SLCJ (1) • Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF) (1) • Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (1) • Tamil National Alliance (1) • Tsunami (1) • UNF-LTTE Peace Process (1) • Vikalpa (1)
- 47. 8 years ofcontinuous operation ! 2,800 + articles | 5.6 million words ! 48,300 + comments |7.2 million words
- 48. institutional archive pluspersonal gaze
- 49. institutional archive pluspersonal gaze
- 50. institutional archive pluspersonal gaze
- 54. 25 years offeminist activism and output ! Over 3.6Gb of images ! Over 117 items scanned in high resolution
- 57. other examples smallefforts for posterity
- 64. folksonomy vs. taxonomycrowdsourcing archival
- 73. corporate ownership whocontrols the archive?
- 78. My cloud basedtools for archival ! Dropbox, WordPress, Google Drive, SiteSucker, Google Earth, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo
- 79. Access, reuse, deletion,data loss, meta-archive rights, downtime, profit
- 80. Google, Twitter, Facebookall have personal archive downloads for off-line, off-platform, long-term storage
- 81. challenges for personalarchivists wtf is a .wpd file & the backup disk just crashed scenarios…
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- 85. storage media fail,expire, get corruption, stolen, lost
- 88. social media isephemeral
- 90. DDoS attacks, webcensorship, cost of recovery (time, finances, reputation), threats, abuse
- 91. the future ofthe personal archive life streaming & semantic web
- 98. from place toplatform the living archive
- 99.
- 100. “Tis in mymemory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.” ! William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- 101.