Browsing Archive: February, 2011

Revisiting Old Media Archives

Posted by David Rowntree on Tuesday, February 22, 2011, In : scholarly communication 


Unpacking boxes the other day I came across a copy of my article 'Out of the Archive: Challenges and Opportunities for New Scholarly Access from Old Media Collections' published in the journal Black Camera just over a year ago. In the winter of 2009, I was just starting my position at the University of Hawaii and did not read the journal when it came out. Now that I am in Boston, I can reflect.

The journal is the first edition of the "new series" of the Black Camera, a partnership with the Ind...
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The Rise of the Digital Information Age

Posted by David Rowntree on Sunday, February 13, 2011, In : Digital Preservation 

A Washington Post article I received from Nan Rubin through the AMIA listserv caught my attention last week. The article, a cursory level discussion of the Rise of the Digital Age provided a good snapshot of the enormous growth of digital information in comparison to older analog mediums. The graph is a particularly good illustration of this phenomenon. 


The article introduces the term Exobytes to the "non-nerd" but more importantly, it touches upon some very real concerns surrounding the se...
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