In the past couple of weeks I attended two events in Washington where the question of “Big Data” was circulating. The National Academies event was solely dedicated to Big Data, while at the Library of Congress Digital Preservation 2012 conference it was a somewhat peripheral consideration. Big Data seems to has been ascribed volume, velocity, and… Continue reading Volume, Velocity, Variety
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Digitization as Creation
Earlier in the week my colleague Trevor Owens wrote a timely piece on The Signal , “All Objects Are Born Digital Objects”. He does a great job of rethinking the relationship between digitized objects and born digital objects. Trevor complicates the commonly held notion that digitized objects are only copies of analog objects by honing… Continue reading Digitization as Creation