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Personal Archiving, Software Obsolescence, Self-Destructing Ebooks, More

joan — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:29:28 +0000

The March 15, 2011 podcast of CNI Conversations includes discussion on a wide variety of topics by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch, including:

*a report on peer review from UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE)

*the recent personal digital archiving symposium hosted at the Internet Archive

*Mac OS X Lion and implications for software obsolescence

*auto-destructing ebooks

*the Digital Public Library of America

CNI Conversations continues to be available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback. For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

Materials from Feb 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Meeting

joan — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:06:04 +0000

Jeff Ubois has just sent out the following announcement of availability of the videos from the recent Personal Digital Archiving meeting hosted at the Internet Archive. One talk that I found particularly provocative and highly recommend is the one by Daniel Reetz (it’s one up from the bottom of the list, just before my talk), but there were many others that were outstanding. The conference was heavily blogged, and Jeff has also provided pointers to some of these.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Thank you for attending and sharing your thoughts and ideas at Personal Digital Archiving 2011.

Conference videos are up! Jeff Kaplan from the Internet Archive has posted all of them at: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Apersonalarchiveconf

Additional thanks to all those who have posted comprehensive notes and commentary:

The Conference Circuit http://www.theconferencecircuit.com/topics/personal-archiving-feb-2011/
NDIIPP at Personal Archiving Conference http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110303_news_pda_conference.html The Litbrarian Blog http://litbrarian.wordpress.com/2011/02/ PDA2011 notes https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/library/pda2011+notes The Waki Librarian http://thewakilibrarian.wordpress.com/2011/02/
Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2011/03/2011-03-04-personal-digital-archiving.html

There are several postings about specific talks, including:

Brief Talk About PDA 2011 Rudy’s Blog http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2011/02/24/speakage/ The Digital Beyond http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/tag/pda2011/
Greenest Grass and Bluest Skies: Daniel Reetz @ PDA2011
Personal Digital Archiving 2011 – Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media http://www.slideshare.net/Marc_A_Smith/personal-digital-archiving-2011-charting-collections-of-connections-in-social-media (most popular talk on SlideShare that day)
Family Search https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/White_Paper:_Preserving_Your_Family_History_Records_Digitally BL Digital Lives http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives/
Gigapan.org http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/71443/
“Learnings from the Doug Engelbart Archives” http://collectiveiq.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/personal-digital-archiving-conference-2011/
Personal Digital Archiving 2011 http://www.personal.psu.edu/esc10/blogs/E-Tech/2011/02/personal-digital-archiving-201.html

Many of the photos are quite striking:

Flipbook http://www.archive.org/stream/pda2011photos#page/n3/mode/2up Gigapan.org http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/71443/
Flickr http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%23pda2011

Several people have asked about next year. That’s not settled yet, but the most likely thing is we’ll meet again in February, 2011 at the Internet Archive.

There will be a weekend meeting about personal archives near Chartres, France next month (April 15-17). The discussion will be largely unstructured, and will focus on improvements to the Grazian Archive, and development of a design prize for personal archives. Please contact me at jeff@ubois.com if you are interested in attending. There is no charge to attend, but participants must cover their own travel costs.

The mailing list for personal digital archives is restarting, but requires a one click-opt in. Expect an invite soon, or visit http://list.personalarchiving.org/listinfo.cgi/pda-personalarchiving.org to subscribe.

All the best,
Jeff Ubois
www.personalarchiving.com

CNI Conversations – November podcast available

joan — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:55:32 +0000

The podcast of the Nov. 17 CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). During this session, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch previews the plenary sessions and some of the project briefings to be presented at the upcoming CNI Fall Membership Meeting, and he discusses the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference, as well as LC’s recent invitational NDIIPP meeting on citizen journalism. Associate Director Joan Lippincott reports on the PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory, and questions asked during the call include a recent New York Times article on digital humanities and the recent Internet2 meeting.

About CNI Conversations

CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to talk to CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Questions and discussion are invited and encouraged. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

Personal Digital Archiving 2011, San Francisco Feb 24/25, 2011

joan — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:40:23 +0000

The call for participation in the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference, to be held at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on Feb 24-25, 2011, has just been released. You can find this at

http://www.personalarchiving.com/2010/11/call-for-participation-for-pda-2011/

and there is registration information at

http://pda2011.eventbrite.com/

CNI was heavily involved in the 2010 edition of this meeting, and I’m delighted to be part of the program commitee for the 2011 meeting. This is a genuinely strategic meeting that explores key issues surrounding evolving social practices that will reshape everything from the future of special collections to the practice of public and social history in the next decade or two. You can find a great deal of information about last year’s meeting through the links on the personalarchiving.com page, including presentation videos.

I hope that your organization will consider attending if this is relevant to your strategic planning.

We’ll also have a session at the Spring CNI member meeting summarizing the outcomes of this meeting.

My thanks to Jeff Ubois and the Internet Archive for their leadership in helping to advance work on this profoundly important set of issues.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

Personal Archives 2010 Conference Report

joan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:11:05 +0000

On February 16, I had the opportunity to participate in a very helpful conference on personal digital archives which included some discussion of their implications for cultural memory organizations. There is a very good detailed report on the meeting, along with some of the presentations, and other materials (video of the meeting will be added soon, I understand). The meeting web site is at:

http://www.personalarchiving.com/

I’ll be running a break-out session at the Spring CNI meeting to try to summarize and further develop some of the ideas coming out of this meeting. My thanks to Jeff Ubois, who has done the community a great service by pulling this meeting together.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI