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Are we losing our (paper) minds?
Processing analog collections in the digital world
Lara MichelsNCTPG Annual Program23 May 2014
post-digital
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Digital Solutionism
Digital Age
Pipes and Plumbing
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Archivists in the Digital Age
Traditional Archival Paradigm
● the sanctity of evidence;
● respect des fonds, provenance, and original order;
● the life cycle of records;
● the organic nature of records; and
● hierarchy in records and their descriptions.
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Post-Digital Age
● In the post-digital age, the digital is commonplace and accepted, rather than something exciting and new. --Adam Tinworth
● The post-digital condition is a post-apocalyptic one: the state of affairs after the initial upheaval caused by the computerisation and global digital networking of communication, technical infrastructures, markets and geopolitics.--Florian Cramer
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We’re finally moving past the twin elephants in the room of technological conversation. Infatuation with everything shiny and digital, and that nostalgic, ‘Lead Pencil Club’ clinging to the past. We’re finally getting to the point where we can decide which are the appropriate technologies to use based simply on their actual merits. And, we’re starting to understand how to combine analog and digital in effective ways. -- Russell Davies
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Terry Cook
long-established, customary, time-honored, established, classic, accustomed, standard, regular, normal, conventional, usual, orthodox, habitual, set, fixed, routine, ritual, old, age-old, ancestral
Paper Mind
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Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections and the Princeton Finding Aids Project
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In the new millenium, the media landscape is changing far faster than our institutions, so we now find ourselves in situations where print-born assumptions linger and intermingle with practices such as social media networking, tweeting, hacking, and so on… -- N. Katherine Hayles
The Age of Print is passing, and the assumptions, presuppositions, and practices associated with it are now becoming visible as media-specific practices rather than the largely invisible status quo. --N. Katherine Hayles
Digital Humanities
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2013 2012
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Media Archaeology and Media History
Friedrich Kittler Lisa Gitelman Cornelia Vismann
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More Media Archaeology
Erkki Huhtamo Wolfgang ErnstMichael Z. Newman