Subj : Preserving Digital History
To : Kaelon
From : Boraxman
Date : Wed Jul 20 2022 04:14 pm
Re: Preserving Digital History
By: Kaelon to Boraxman on Tue Jul 19 2022 04:53 pm
> 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!
>
> 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.
> _____
It could be done with some containerisation. A basic static web page is already 'containerised' in that you simply need to transfer the filesystem heirarchy. More complex ones could have export and import automated. I have migrated web pages from server to server and it is something which could be futher automated.
I could imagine a cPanel option where you can nominate where the site is archived to. Facebook and Google allow you to export your data already. We're mostly there, it is the standardisation of process and interface and creation of formal agreements. Or the nominated archive could simply be pushed an access token that allows it access, similar to how you may have someone as a github collaborator. Cloud based accounts could work similar.
