- Feb 2016
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www.digitalhumanities.org www.digitalhumanities.org
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proleptic
anticipation
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National Archives of the United States
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The purpose of this essay, therefore, is to locate and triangulate the emergence of the .txtual condition
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the National Archives and Records Administration that is the repository of the Whitman papers recovered by Ken Price did not even exist as a public institution until 1934
That is still an early start to archiving. I had never heard of an official archives collection that old until now.
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"media archaeology"
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the preservation of digital objects is logically inseparable from the act of their creation
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One can, in a very literal sense, never access the "same" electronic file twice, since each and every access constitutes a distinct instance of the file that will be addressed and stored in a unique location in computer memory.
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The Deena Larsen Collection also includes a small number of Zip disks, and even some audiovisual media such as VHS tapes and dictation cassettes.
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Deena Larsen (b. 1964) has been an active member of the creative electronic writing community since the mid-1980s.
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Solutions here range from developing the means to share access to vintage equipment to distributed, cloud-based services for digital collections processing.
Cloud storage is very necessary in archiving. Without it, the systems would probably be slow, and there would be no backup if our records system crashed.
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"media archaeology"
This department stems in film history. It examines and explains new technology and media by looking at old media. This reminds me of the Music of Film class at Wheaton: You can't examine old film music without understanding some history about the old films and the processes of film making. Read more here: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1343
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For many now their born-digital footprint begins literally in utero, with an ultrasound JPEG passed from Facebook or Flickr to family and friends, soon be augmented by vastly more voluminous digital representations as online identity grows, matures, proliferates, and becomes a life-long asset,
Some parents are still protective of their childrens' images and DON'T post pictures of their child to Facebook. This brings up a different question of archival privacy in the digital age. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20/no-photos-parents-opt-to-_n_5695114.html
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Jonathan Larson (composer of the musical RENT)
Does this mean that he composed the entirety of Rent in digital form/ on a computer program?
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Someday an archivist may have to contend with this rough beast, along with Franzen’s other computers and hard drives and USB sticks and floppy diskettes in shoeboxes.
Again, something I see a lot of in the archives is "obsolete" technology being shelved.
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some of which lie forgotten in archives, or brushed under beds, or glued beneath the end papers of books.
As a worker in the Wheaton College Archives, I see this all the time. One person could learn so much from the hundreds of VHS tapes that we have, but they have remained unplayed and unmoved from the shelves for years.
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