"I was in the car with my wife and 15-year-old daughter this morning talking about the future of Facebook and how it's likely that they will not be around forever (or at least not at the same capacity as now) and my daughter asked 'Well, what's going to happen to all of my pictures?' It never occurred to her to that Facebook might not be around someday and all of those thousands of photos that she's uploaded might someday be gone…"
Excellent article on the BBC's problems with web preservation, along with a useful history lesson about the (unfortunate) re-use of videotape, and the losses that practice caused.
Richard Wright explains PrestoCentre, Presto projects, and Screening the Future conference to be held March 14-15 in Hilversum. "we are on the brink of creating something that can make a major difference to the amount of broadcasting content, and other audiovisual content, that will survive: the PrestoCentre Competence Centre, to be launched 14-15 March in Hilversum, The Netherlands at "Screening the Future"."
Background on NSF rules on ensuring preservation of and access to scientific data.
Best of the conference calendars – has the two I'm working on, Personal Digital Archiving, and Screening the Future.
About as wrong as it is possible to be about intellectual property.
The report of the Comite des Sages on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online is out, with some interesting data about digitisation, and some excellent recommendations about What is to be Done. Start by getting €100 billion set aside to pay for it all…
Nice forward from Kaliya Hamlin, mostly on consumer services to preserve digital legacies.
Nice piece on the demise of Kodachrome.
Visit For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas – NYTimes.com
Personal Digital Archiving 2011 will take place February 24-25 at the Internet Archive in San Francisco.
Visit Call for participation for Personal Digital Archiving 2011
Very cool cross cut of by Active Archives of video interview collection by person and by question.
Shades of Sensecam, but as a consumer device: "Small, lightweight, hands-free cameras — worn on a headband, for example, or tucked over an ear — will record life’s memorable moments as they unfold, even if you are busy holding your infant son or erupting in cheers at your daughter’s basketball game."
Visit Wearable Cameras Move Beyond Sports to the Mainstream – NYTimes.com
I'm very curious about the Digital Public Space proposal, and would be grateful for any additional information. <br />
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"Ageh doesn't want to talk about himself. He is in the very early stages of his most significant project yet: one that aims to redesign the internet. After two years analysing the content, framework and potential of the BBC's archive, Ageh's conclusion is that many of the challenges – not least rights, accessibility and the cost of digitisation – are shared by other public institutions. So his vision is to create a new "digital public space" for publicly owned content."