DPC Reading Club - web archiving

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One of the challenges of working in a dynamic and evolving field such as digital preservation is the sheer volume of relevant papers and articles that are published every year. It can be a huge challenge for those of us working in this field to find out about these publications, let alone find the time to read them and absorb the contents.

The DPC Reading Club is here to help you with this challenge! It will not only signpost you to some interesting reading but also provides a place for a friendly chat about the text with other members of the community.

In our next DPC Reading Club session we will discuss a chapter from Ian Miligan’s latest book Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory. Published in December 2024 this book discusses how the internet's memory infrastructure has developed. It moves from a history of the term "digital dark age" to a case study describing how the September 11 attacks prompted institutions to preserve thousands of digital artifacts.

In this session we will look at the penultimate chapter (chapter 5), which explores the digital preservation response to the September 11 attacks and the impact this has had on more recent collecting and preservation efforts.

Milligan, Ian. (2024) “Archiving Disaster: The Case of 11 September 2001“ in Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory. John Hopkins University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_monograph/chapter/4050591/pdf

Note - the book is available to buy but can also be accessed in full at Project MUSE here: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/123276

Registration

This will be a small and informal event for DPC Members only and places are limited. Sign up now to secure your place! We only ask that you have done the reading that has been set before the event and bring along your thoughts and observations to share.

Places for DPC members will be restricted to five places for full members and one place for associates on a first come, first served basis. If you find you are no longer able to attend, please let us know in advance so we can free up your space to those on the waiting list.

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DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.