Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Department
Libraries
Abstract
With digital recording devices readily available to most people, events are documented and shared on-line in real time by the “person on the street.” The ease of creation and dissemination belies what archivists know will be the long-term challenges of organizing and preserving collections of born-digital information. While other processes require little modification, the inherent fragility of digital content and the ease of depositing files call for a substantial modification of established procedures. In this article, three University of Louisville archivists discuss their approach to the acquisition, copyright transfer, file naming, selection, description, and preservation of born-digital content donated by the local community to document Louisville’s August 2009 flood.
Original Publication Information
This article was originally published in Archival Issues, volume 33, issue 2, in 2011.
ThinkIR Citation
Howard, Rachel; Fox, Heather; and Daniels, Caroline, "The born-digital deluge : documenting twenty-first century events." (2011). Faculty and Staff Scholarship. 1.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/1
ORCID
0000-0002-5601-5514
