Subj : Preserving Digital History
To : Boraxman
From : Kaelon
Date : Tue Jul 19 2022 04:53 pm
Re: Preserving Digital History
By: Boraxman to Kaelon on Wed Jul 20 2022 09:33 am
> I think the solution is custody. Who owns the information, how is it
> transferred. A way to transfer the public contents of a server before you
> decommission it. A way for people who are done maintaining their sites to
> simply hand it over to archivists. This would be more a cultural shift than
> a technological one.
This is a great idea! Chain of custody arrangements would certainly be in line with many of our legal and institutional practices. Could we formalize this so that the cultural shift is embedded in technological practices? And how would we contend with the evergreen economic interests that no doubt would prevail? A fascinating proposition, indeed!
> There are already questions about how to handle social media accounts after
> people die, who takes ownership and such, and I think this problem neatly
> extends to the one we are discussing.
Another great observation! I think you are absolutely right; there are very compatible applications between the memorialization of the deceaseds' social media accounts and the need to preserve human knowledge beyond the digital conundrum in which we have found ourselves.
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