In lieu of audio from the presentation last month at Archives and Activism, I decided to put the slides up. When the audio becomes available, I will post. For the first part of the presentation visit Jefferson Bailey’s website here. Preservationistas: Online Communities, Activist Preservation, and Born-Digital Archives from Thomas Padilla
Tag: digital preservation
Volume, Velocity, Variety
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
Reconciling Variance
Casting a measured gaze across the pages before him, August Schleicher turned away, removed his spectacles and rubbed his eyes. A few moments passed and he turned back toward the desk. Setting to work he muttered, “I walk in a field of ruins”. The variants in the texts that lay before him, sprinkled in some… Continue reading Reconciling Variance