Digital Preservation and Archiving

Increasingly, moving images are part of students' daily lives. Students record scenes they witness on their pocket digital movie cameras, download clips from free movie sites, and create remixes and mashups. Students recognize something that many libraries don't—that moving images are one of the richest ways of capturing events and that they tell us an immense amount about the history of their time, as well as current culture and styles.

Many academic libraries have collections of film and video that have been a low priority to organize, catalog, and preserve. One reason for the backlog is that this type of material requires different ways of thinking about handling, preservation, and browsing.

In this 23 minute recording, we'll touch base with the University of Minnesota's Eric Celeste to learn about his work archiving Internet2 with Heritrix.  We'll also learn about the UThink blog serivce and engage in a healthy discussion about social software. 

At last fall's CNI meeting, I also spoke with the University of Minnesota's Joseph Konstan. 


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

Tune in Apr. 18 to for a discussion of archiving and preserving the Web with the Internet Archive's Dan Avery and Kristine Hanna. Busy then? You can listen later by visiting the archives.