8. Cultural Armageddon, 2011
Source: University of Southern California
Credit: Todd Lindeman and Brian Vastag/ The
Washington Post
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17. Everything can be data…
“When it was made simple, counted in bits, Information
was found to be everywhere”
-James Gleick, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood (2011)
“It is not just about the data, it is about the story”
-Arianna Huffington (2012)
…and used to tell a story.
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18. Five Equations of the Cultural Record
Content = Data
Analog = Non-existent
Unconnecte
d
= Invisible
Reusable = Valuable
Storytelling = Visualization
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19. The Dilemma of Modern Scholarship
How do we insure that resources that
support scholarship and research that exist
in digital form today will reliably exist and
be discoverable in the future?
2013 2???
?
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20. Digital Repositories organize data…
Digital representations of analog
originals
Born digital objects with no
“original” analog form
Still Images
Data Sets
Documents
Moving Images
Complex objects
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21. …to be used in one environment…
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/leonardo/
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22. … re-used in another…
http://www.bl.uk/app/treasures.html
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25. Four “–ity”s of the Digital Cultural Record
Sustainability
The digital object can be maintained and accessed
over time
Authenticity
The digital object is reliably true to the original
Interoperability
The ability of one standards-based object to be
used in any other standards-based system
Reusability
Objects can be used in ways not related to original
purpose
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27. Greg Colati
Sr. Director
Archives, Special Collections and Digital Curation
University of Connecticut
gregory.colati@uconn.edu
Slides and text available at: http://www.slideshare.net/Gcolati/
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28. Credits (In order of appearance)
Big Brother: http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncan/5510161001/
Paul Conway, Preservation in the Digital World http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2
Wax Cylinder: Flickr image from the National Film and Sound Archive Australia
Brittle page: http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/about2.html
Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/graphic/2011/02/11/GR2011021100614.html
Digital Universe: http://www.emc.com/leadership/programs/digital-universe.htm
Singularity Hub: http://singularityhub.com/2010/07/20/your-entire-life-recorded-lifelogging-
goes-mainstream/
Justin TV: http://justin.tv
Google glass: http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/
Iris: http://www.lowes.com/cd_Iris_239939199_
DCC Lifecycle model: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model
Locomotive: Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut
Leonardo’s notebook: http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/leonardo/
British Library tablet app: http://www.bl.uk/app/treasures.html
Inventing Europe: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/inventing-europe
Google Ngram viewer: http://books.google.com/ngrams/
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