Visiting Digital Residency Position - Kelly J. Applegate

1. PRESENTATION REQUIREMENT FOR THE
DIGITAL PRESERVATION RESIDENCY
POSITION:
“Identify 3 trends in Digital Preservation that
you might be interested in pursuing/exploring
and explain why.”

2. 3 TRENDS
Digital heritage preservation
Digital preservation metadata
Preservation of social media
by Kelly J. Applegate, MS/LIS

3. A BIT ABOUT ME

4. DIGITAL HERITAGE ACROSS THE
LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND MUSEUMS
(LAM) LANDSCAPE
“Disappearance of heritage in whatever form constitutes an
impoverishment of the heritage of all nations.”1
~UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage

5. DIGITAL HERITAGE ACROSS THE
LAM-SCAPE:
Libraries: e-publications, harvesting websites,
proprietary content in social media
Archives: rapid obsolescence of legacy
digital formats
Museums: born digital works of art, digital
representations of artifacts, digital
information about collections
2Reway, 2007

6. “Never has access to information that is authentic, reliable, and
complete been more important, and never has the capacity of
libraries and other heritage institutions to guarantee that access
been in greater jeopardy.”3
~NDIIPP, Library of Congress
"Existing mandates and collecting policies often do not cover these
new forms of digital heritage. Our collective neglect of these new
forms raises the risk of creating large gaps in our cultural heritage
for future generations.”4
~UNESCO/PERSIST Content Task Force

7. DIGITAL PRESERVATION METADATA –
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY THAT?

8. Difficult questions to answer about digital
preservation metadata:
“Any metadata that is used to preserve digital objects is preservation
metadata, which can include descriptive, administrative, or structural. The
first problem, then, is that preservation metadata doesn’t seem to fit
anywhere in our neat metadata taxonomy.”5 ~Matthew Short
What does it do?
Where does it come
from?
What does it look like?
How much do we need?
How do we use it to
achieve our goals?

9. DIGITAL PRESERVATION
METADATA COULD BE
CONSIDERED ANY
METADATA CONSIDERED
NECESSARY FOR
LONG-TERM ACCESSIBILITY
Oh PREMIS,
you still need
to be
supplemented
by other
schemas!
6Balasoiu - Freepik.com

10. FUTURE WORK
 Continue to develop metadata sets
for universal use
Advocacy for open-source tools for
digital preservation metadata
management
Born digital specific metadata
development
7Cea, 2012

11. PRESERVATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA

12. WHY PRESERVE SOCIAL MEDIA?
Research in the social sciences
Genealogy / Personal archiving for descendants
Societies’ documentary heritage
Social media files often involve more than posts
Creator perspective
Legal evidence
“The Revolution WILL Be Televised … on YouTube. These
are the beginning stages of the social media revolution.
Denying this or delaying a preservation strategy will only
compound the difficulty to execute.”8 ~Rakesh Madhava

13. information decayHorror movie or reality?
“…researchers in Virginia…took a number of recent major news events
over the past three years — including the Egyptian revolution, Michael
Jackson’s death…and the outbreak of the H1N1 virus — and tracked the
links that were shared on Twitter…Following the links to their ultimate
source showed that an alarming number of them had simply vanished.”9
~Matthew Ingram

14. USERS BY THE NUMBERS, OR, WHY
SOCIAL MEDIA PRESERVATION
STRATEGIES CAN’T WAIT
Facebook – 1.97 billion
YouTube – 1 billion
Instagram – 600 million
Tumblr – 550 million
Twitter – 319 million
Snapchat – 300 million
Skype- 300 million
Pinterest – 150 million
LinkedIn – 106 million10
11Lognoul, 2014

15. WORKS CITED/IMAGE SOURCES
1. UNESCO. “Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage,” October, 2003, retrieved from
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17721&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
2. “Leaping Lambs” by Reway2007 April 27, 2012 via Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
3. Library of Congress. "Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program(NDIIPP),“
October, 2002.
4. UNESCO/PERSIST Content Task Force. "The UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for
long-term preservation," March, 2016.
5. Matthew Short. “What is Preservation Metadata?,” Preserving (Digital) Objects with Restricted Resources
(POWRR), October 1, 2012, http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/what-is-preservation-metadata/
6. Speech balloon designed by Claudia Balasoiu / freepik.com, 2017, http://www.freepik.com
7. “Metadata is a love note to the future” by cea October 9, 2012 via Flickr is licensed under CC BY 2.0
8. Rakesh Madhava. “10 Things to Know About Preserving Social Media,” Information Management,
September/October (2011): 37.
9. Matthew Ingram, “The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our history,” GIGAOM, Sep 19, 2012,
https://gigaom.com/2012/09/19/the-disappearing-web-information-decay-is-eating-away-our-history/

16. 10. We Are Social. (n.d.). Most famous social network sites worldwide as of April 2017, ranked by number of active
users (in millions). In Statista - The Statistics Portal. Retrieved June 5, 2017, https://www-statista-
com.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/
11. “Export pain” by Pierre Lognoul May 6, 2007 via Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

17. THANK YOU!
QUESTIONS?
Slideshare link:
https://www.slideshare.net/KellyApplegate/interview-
presentation-76800562