Keynote presentation delivered at Screening the Future 2013 (#stfcon) at the Tate Modern in London, May 8, 2013.

1. WHEN THE WORST HAPPENS
ON LONG AND SHORT-TERM DISASTERS AND THEIR IMPACT ON PRESERVATION THINKING
Kara Van Malssen
AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
Screening the Future
8 May 2013

2. by MTAPhotos via Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/8149552042/

3. by David Shankbone via Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shankbone/8145644147/

4. credit: Justin Lane/EPA
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-live-updates-2/

7. [Video removed to reduce file size. Watch it here:
http://vimeo.com/53849333]

10. JONATHAN MINARD

23. HOT OFF THE PRESS!
http://bit.ly/11F3vuO

25. THE VERGE
HYPERALLERGIC
O’REILLY RADAR
BRIAN LEHRER
WALL ST JOURNAL
http://hyperallergic.com/60598/eyebeam-hurricane-sandy-flooding/
http://bit.ly/107CX8p
http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/01/eyebeam-update-two-months-after-sandy.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14F3Azvodbw
http://on.wsj.com/11HibcS

26. http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/15/3876790/eyebeam-hurricane-
sandy-digital-archive-rescue
System restore: How archivists
salvaged 1,500 volumes of digital
art from Sandy’s floodwaters

27. http://vimeo.com/53849333

28. http://hyperallergic.com/60598/eyebeam-hurricane-sandy-flooding/

30. by DRs Kulturarvsprojekt via Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kulturarvsprojektet/6498637005/

32. According to tradition, [the Great Library of Alexandria in
Egypt was] destroyed in a fire. Depending on whose
story you believe and which villain you want to blame,
this fire happened anywhere from 47 BCE to 641
CE. Or perhaps the Great Library fell on hard times
and gradually lost its collection over the centuries
to deterioration, theft, and other unspectacular
causes. In any case, it’s so thoroughly lost that no one
even knows what happened to it, and with it a huge
amount of ancient literature vanished.
—Gary McGrath
Files that Last
April 2013
“

34. ROI

35. ROI

36. COI

37. COI= cost of inaction

38. “It may be possible, with enough
work, to read almost anything,
but there comes a point where
it’s not economically feasible.”
—Gary McGrath. Files that Last. April 2013

47. Disaster became the impetus. Our
organization’s long-delayed plans to
secure a collection stored on unstable
formats now had critical urgency.
—JONATHAN MINARD
quoted in “After Sandy, Eyebeam is Thriving”
Hyperallergic, 18 April 2013
http://hyperallergic.com/69094/after-sandy-
eyebeam-is-thriving/
“

50. THANK YOU!
kara@avpreserve.com
@kvanmalssen
www.avpreserve.com