Video Presentation: “Archiving Large Swaths of Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement”

Recently posted video from the CNI Spring 2012 Membership Meeting (April 2-3, 2012) in Baltimore.

Speakers

Howard Besser
Director, Moving Image Archiving & Preservation MA Program
New York University
David Millman
Director, Digital Library Technology Services
New York University
Sharon M. Leon
Director of Public Projects, Center for History & New Media
George Mason University
Kristine Hanna
Director, Archiving Services
Internet Archive

Summary

Archiving born-digital content from the “Occupy” movement can serve as a prototype for archiving all kinds of user-contributed content. In this presentation, several organizations will discuss the tools and methods they have developed for ingesting, preserving, and offering discovery services to large numbers of digital works where they cannot really rely on the contributors to follow standards and metadata assignment. Topics covered will range from automatic extraction of time-stamp and location metadata (and an empirical analysis of which upload services strip these out), to app development for uploading content along with permission forms, to maintaining lists of frequently-changing URL nodes for web-crawling, to issues in educating content creators in best practices. Speakers will also discuss issues in trying to document a social movement while it is happening.

Presentations

Presentation (Besser PPT)
Presentation (Millman PPT)
Presentation (Leon PDF)
Presentation (Hanna PPTX)

Additional Links

http://activist-archivists.org/
http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet
http://occupyarchive.org/
 

Filed under: Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Preservation