Avoiding Extinction in a Digital Dark Age |
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| Event | Interactive 2011 |
| Format | Panel |
| Organizer | Adele McAlear – McAlear Marketing |
| Description | Many think that the web is forever and our personal stories, work and files will live on stored on hard drives and online. Driven by low cost storage, easy distribution and social networks we’ve put our lives online at an amazing pace and converted analog to digital. But, are we inadvertently creating a digital dark age? In the last 15-years, online photo and video sites, blogs, email and hard drives full of files have replaced the previous generation’s analog heirlooms. Looking at an old family album from 1910, you’ll be able to view the photos today. Will your descendants be able to see your digital pictures 100 years from now? The web is actually a fragile place where your digital life’s work and can disappear without warning. Stored data can suffer from digital obsolescence and become unusable. To prevent the loss of historically significant records and collections, library and archival organizations have been working on digital preservation issues for years. You may not be a person destined for the history books, but, to your family, friends, colleagues and descendants, your stories and work are just as important, and possibly even more relevant. This session will look at what each of us can do today to preserve and pass on our digital legacy, how to determine what to save, what steps have happened at the institutional level and determine how they can be adapted for individuals. If you are a prolific digital creator, this is a must attend session. |
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| Level | Intermediate |
| Category | Out There |
| Tags | archive, content, preservation |