Dark Archives in Contents Magazine
A really lovely piece on the repositories of information that aren’t catalogued—a fourth quadrant in the Rumsfeldian taxonomy, these dark archives are the unknown knowns.
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The Ruins of Dead Social Networks - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Reminiscences of the BBSs of yesteryear that could in time be applied to the social networking sites of today.
Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2010: Papers: Cope, A.S., Buckets and Vessels
Here’s one to add to Instapaper or Readability to savour at your leisure: Aaron Straup Cope’s talk at Museums and the Web 2010:
This paper examines the act of association, the art of framing and the participatory nature of robots in creating artifacts and story-telling in projects like Flickr Galleries, the API-based Suggestify project (which provides the ability to suggest locations for other people’s photos) and the increasing number of bespoke (and often paper-based) curatorial productions.
FamilySearch Shares Plans to Digitize Billions of Records Stored at Granite Mountain Records Vault - LDS Newsroom
How the Mormon Church are storing and preserving genealogical data inside a mountain.
Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul - tech - 02 May 2011 - New Scientist
The editor of New Scientist writes about deletionists and preservationists while adding his own personal poignant perspective.
A Memory of Webs Past - IEEE Spectrum
A detailed look at how French archivists go about preserving websites.