Digital traces
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Digital archives contain vast amounts of information stored as binary digits. The amount of digital data being created is growing exponentially and is estimated to exceed 500 quadrillion files. Digital archives can preserve important records and make information widely accessible online, helping to promote accountability, justice, and bearing witness. However, digital archives also pose challenges around long-term preservation due to their dependence on continued formats and storage mediums.
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Digital traces
- 2. Origin early 17th cent. (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.
- 6. Aspiration
- 7. The tech
- 10. 7,000 pixels Over 190 times more resolution than high-end DSLR ~9,720+Mb ~2,430 DVDs Over 9 1/2 feet stacked google.com/culturalinstitute/home
- 11. atoms
- 13. 1s & 0s
- 14. The Cloud
- 17. The Democratising Effect Archive(s) of Life An endlessly morphing meta-archive
- 18. HTML5 Semantic Web The grammar The connections
- 22. Accessible, Replicable, Ephemeral Digital Archiving:
- 25. 500 quadrillion files About the # of stars in our physical universe More than doubling every two years
- 26. Archives from Sri Lanka
- 45. Tiki Toki
- 50. Burial site
- 57. Over 3.6Gb 117+ items 25 years More to be scanned...
- 68. Accountability Justice Bearing witness Chain of custody Medium Meta data Storage Format . . . Digital Archive’s Purpose
- 71. Why?
- 72. To give future generations the ability to erase what they want To help remember what has been overwritten To help (re)create what matters
- 73. thank you