The future of digital archiving is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Myself, along with technical directors Emma Lloyd from Eyebeam, Doron Ben-Avraham from the New Museum, and Nick Hasty from Rhizome have been starting a kind of research group focused on the unique problems archivists face as digital media grows older and needs to be preserved.
We’ve been discussing theoretical and technical challenges, such as saving the code versus saving representational instances (such as pictures or screen casts) – in the face of rapid software obsolescence. I believe this will move forward into some kind of public facing event or panel discussion within the next few months. So stay tuned.
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