Curiously, most of us in the digital memory business are hesitant to visually document our own work. Possibly this has to do with the perceived nature of the enterprise, which involves tasks that may seem routine. But pictures tell an important story, and I set about finding a few that depicted some of the digital preservation focal points for the past year.
I did a Flickr search for the words “digital” and “preservation” and limited the results to photos taken in 2013. I also limited the results to “only search within Creative Commons-licensed content” and “find content to modify, adapt, or build upon.” There were 2 to 3 dozen results. While most fell into a couple of common categories, I was pleased to find 11 that struck me as especially engaging, unusual or otherwise interesting.
Caritat room, Biblioteca de Catalunya. Unitat de Digitalització. From the ANADP 2013 meeting in Barcelona, by Ciro Llueca, on FlickrLong-Term Preservation of Digital Art, by transmediate, on FlickrMain Room, Biblioteca de Catalunya. Unitat de Digitalització, from ANADP 2013, by Ciro Llueca, on FlickrAt Personal Digital Archiving 2013, by Leslie Johnston, on FlickrWith George “The Fat Man” Sanger at Personal Digital Archiving 2013, by Wlef70, on FlickrIntroducing the Archivematica Digital Preservation System, by Metropolitan New York Library Council, on FlickrPreservation of Tibetan books, Digital Dharma, by Wonderlane, on FlickrPosters, Biblioteca de Catalunya. Unitat de Digitalització, from ANADP 2013, by Ciro Llueca, on FlickrPlaceWorld is the result of collaboration between artists, social and computer scientists undertaken as part of the eSCAPE Project, by Daniel Rehn, on FlickrVisualisation Persist: Sustainability of the Information Society, by Elco van Staveren, on FlickrDigitization Project at Radio Mogadishu, Somalia, by United Nations Photo, on Flickr
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Jefferson says:
Those interested in visual representations of digital preservation may also be interested in the Cultural Heritage Iconathon hosted by METRO and The Noun Project last summer. A number of digital preservation icons/symbols were created at the event and all are public domain and free to use.
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Those interested in visual representations of digital preservation may also be interested in the Cultural Heritage Iconathon hosted by METRO and The Noun Project last summer. A number of digital preservation icons/symbols were created at the event and all are public domain and free to use.
The event recap and icon samples are here: http://iconathon.org/2013/08/21/cultural-heritage-symbols/ and lots of photos from the event (including icon mock-ups) start here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thenounproject/9559354852/ (then scroll right). The icons themselves can be downloaded at The Noun Project’s website: http://thenounproject.com/
Thanks for the great suggestion!