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I am giving a presentation to the IFLA conference in August and I'd really appreciate your help with it.
In March this year I gave a presentation called "The Delete Generation: Citizen-created content, digital equity and the preservation of community memory".
I'm looking to build on that presentation, to get wider views across the New Zealand Library sector on the areas I cover around the preservation and protection of digital assets, particularly in relation to communities and citizen-created content.
I'd love your help, so please have a look at the video or download the transcript, and post your ideas, comments or views in the comments. My advisor Karin Kos and I will be reading and responding to your feedback as it comes in, and it will all go towards my final presentation for IFLA.
To get you started, here's the abstract for the talk:
A quiet, web-roots-led, revolution is challenging the way librarians have traditionally viewed the protection and preservation of knowledge. While the complex issues concerning the protection and preservation of digital assets are better understood by the information professions, there is still much thinking required about the preservation and protection of the new wave of citizen-created content.
Traditionally information professionals in all types of memory institutions have clearly met the need for and nature of the preservation activities around formal and authoritative knowledge services and systems. However informal, citizen-created, knowledge activities are far less straightforward in terms of preservation. These activities arise and evolve as individual citizens develop as authors, content creators, thought leaders, film-makers, blog diarists, etc. There is at present an extraordinary unleashing of content creation by individual citizens.
This development challenges established organisational systems and professional practice in an unprecedented way. This paper outlines some of the issues involved in the preservation of digital assets in this environment. It explores how all memory institutions including archives, galleries, museums and libraries in particular, can value and protect a country’s digital assets in both formal and informal arenas.
This paper explores the challenges and unlimited potential of Web 2.0, in reshaping thinking about what digital assets to collect and protect over time.
Many thanks,
Penny Carnaby
2 comments:
Hi Penny and Karin,
While I'm a librarian by profession and training and I do use web 2.0 in my workplace, my comments here refer specifically to my "citizen-created content".
While studying toward my MLIS I took the History of Print Culture in NZ paper. One the assignments was to create an exhibition pitch concentration an aspect of print culture. My group decided to work on named student flats in Dunedin (where I was based). That was in 2000.
I've continued to photograph these flats since then. The initial photos were taken on 35mm film, but since 2005 they have been taken digitally. I believe it's worth recording and preserving these flat names because they are an expression of student identity. No other university in NZ has an environment quite like Otago.
In 2007 I set up Flickr and Facebook groups to share, record and preserve this sometimes ephemeral, sometimes enduring aspect of student culture in Dunedin. To date there are 636 members of the FB group, many of whom have contributes stories, tagged photos with their names and added photos of their own. It's marvelous. What started as an assignment has become a digital archive of sorts. This in turn has prompted an invitation from OUSA to exhibit the photos at Art Week this year and the project will hopefully become a hard copy book some time in the near future - see flatnames.tumblr.com. It could never have happened without web 2.0.
Sarah, thanks so much for this real-life example, very helpful contribution towards the presentation. Your study's also of personal interest to me, being an ex-Otago student myself!
Karin
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