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This page offers information on selected teleconferences offered to students in the University of Maine's Digital Curation program. For access to recorded videochats, contact ude.eniam@otiloppij.
Teleconference with Ben Fino-RadinApproximate timecodes in Hours: minutes
00:00Introduction by Jon Ippolito.
01:48Ben Fino-Radin on acquiring the earliest Macintosh icons
07:21Obsolete media: digitizing obsolete floppy disks with the Kryoflux
11:09Obsolete file systems: imaging early Macintosh/Windows file systems
12:47Obsolete formats: using emulators to read disk formats
14:07Missing software: opening images without the program that created them
15:22How to provide access for curators
20:13Museum versus archival collections
21:24The first work of Internet art collected by a museum
23:17Missing software: how do you reconstruct server scripts?
27:31Handling error-filled content (invalid HTML)
28:41Forking a work into multiple versions
30:58Rewriting code and security concerns
32:31Restoring two versions of the same work
33:08The new, live version: a functioning participatory interface
33:43The restored, historic version: updating Web links with the WayBack Machine
35:51Multiple restorations with different purposes
38:12Web browsers as the future of media access
40:08Professional versus crowdsourced preservation
42:05Transfer Station (XFR STN), and a cat
45:42Solutions for small collections
46:19Case study: Cory Arcangel Studio
46:49DropBox for remote access and backup
48:32Infinite version history and checksums
49:38Binder: a digital repository manager developed at MoMA
50:38How to get Binder
51:53Matters of Media Art: Solutions for collections of middle scale
53:23Open-sourcing a website by hosting it on GitHub
55:18Re-casting older technology in openFrameworks
57:50Conclusion
Teleconference with Craig DietrichApproximate timecodes in Hours: minutes
00:00Introduction by Jon Ippolito.
02:09Craig Dietrich on his neighborhood and maps as technology
05:45Hypercities: an caveat about dependence on corporate platforms
09:00Katrina Wynn on comparable mapping projects
10:25Neatline
11:18Internet archive
15:04The Critical Commons copyright workaround
20:25Mukurtu Archive and Local Context
28:36What is metadata?
30:00Metadata for traditional knowledge
34:00Is enforcement of cultural norms necessary?
36:15Katrina Wynn: how is access controlled?
37:37Misuse of material from Shoah Foundation archive
39:26Introduction to Scalar
41:52Example of a digital edition: Ancient Monuments
47:00Easily make a digital book with Scalar
48:15Linking to archives with Scalar
55:10Tensor: a user-friendly archive lookup tool
59:18Round-tripping metadata
59:54Barbara Finley: does Scalar accommmodate Traditional Knowledge labels?
63:16Katrina Wynn: how can metadata protect sensitive material?
65:12Molly Carlson on Zaption, which inserts quizzes into video.
69:50Enforcing learning sequences via online tests
71:45Molly Carlson on standards-based education versus non-linear learning
73:07Hypothes.is, a community-based text annotator, integrated
76:34Katrina Wynn: how useful is the Dublic Core standard?
78:03How funding has influenced the rise of metadata
78:34Scholarly contributions to archives via metadata
79:59Dublic Core and alternative metadata standards
81:46Diane on the Omeka Neatline plugin
84:12Vectors version of Google Maps
85:11Tracking black ops flights with online maps
87:57Installing and using Mukurtu
89:29Installing and using Scalar
90:21Reclaim hosting and Scalar
91:20Conclusion
Teleconference with Dragan EspenschiedApproximate timecodes in minutes:seconds
00:00 Introduction by Jon Ippolito.
00:24 Dragan Espenschied on Rhizome's mission.
01:50 Crowdsourcing archival acquisitions.
03:37 Obsolescence and the archive.
04:00 Problems of archiving social media.
07:18 Example: Facebook redesign.
08:02 Example: MySpace redesign.
08:52 Preserving records versus preserving user experience.
10:31 Jon's summary of challenges faced by Rhizome.
11:55 Scale for the Internet Archive and Rhizome.
15:22 Limits of metadata.
16:13 How do you know what software you need to run an artifact?
18:02 Preservation through access.
18:50 demo of bwFLA CD-ROM emulation.
22:08 Viewing a Mac OS9 "Read Me" document in browser-based emulation.
22:08 Viewing the Mac OS9 CD-ROM "Vexations" in browser-based emulation.
25:41 Advantage of saving only the differences between system configurations.
27:29 Viewing Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs in emulation.
28:01 Spawning an emulator in the cloud.
31:05 Why should collecting institutions help develop emulators?
32:55 How do you emulate network-based resources, like outdated URLs?
34:06 Resurrecting Geocities with a proxy server.
39:21 Researching history of software via DROID over Geocities.
40:40 Leveraging the Internet Archive for obsolete software.
42:14 Web archiving: public documents versus personal media.
44:05 Webrecorder archives Web content that a robot can't.
46:16 JavaScript, not HTML, is now the language of the Web.
48:07 The challenge of archiving Facebook.
49:47 Webrecorder contrasted with traditional Web archiving.
51:15 Archiving Instagram with Webrecorder.
52:45 Why we need to archive emojis.
54:38 Archiving Yelp with Webrecorder.
57:30 Where is the border of an online artifact?
57:58 The challenge of archiving results from search boxes.
1:03:10 What is a WARC file?
1:07:20 Why you need to save collections for each user.
1:08:19 Demo of Webrecorder applied to the New York Times.
1:12:11 Demo of Webrecorder applied to Vine.
1:12:27 Why archivists need futuristic approaches, and how art can help.
1:14:38 How browser-based emulation can focus on the work preserved.
Teleconference with Jason ScottApproximate timecodes in Hours:minutes
00:00 Introduction by Jon Ippolito.
00:02 Archive Team members check in.
00:03 Jen Bonnet describes her "Re-Gift" variable media case study.
00:08 Jo Ana Morfin describes her "No-Content.org" variable media case study.
00:10 Jen Bonnet on using the Variable Media Questionnaire.
00:12 Jason Scott on preserving journalism in a digital environment.
00:16 Printing from the browser-based emulator JSMESS.
00:21 Emulating different game consoles with JSMESS; exploiting modularity; JavaScript as cross-platform language.
00:26 Emulation helps expose intent of original creator.
00:35 Copyright as obstacle to preservation.
00:48 How do you decide what to preserve?
00:55 Storing artifacts versus networks of associations.
00:57 Limits of magnetic storage.
01:01 Storing context and ArchiveBot.
01:07 How to get the Archive Team to help you.
01:09 Difficulty preserving multi-user environments like social networks and game worlds.
01:13 Is there anything the Internet Archive would not archive? ("If nobody on Archive Team can come up with even the vaguest use case...")
01:19 Automated metadata creation, a la OCR.
01:18 "Students say they went into archives so they wouldn't have to deal with computers. They are so doomed."
01:22 Magnetic flux readers like Kryoflux.
01:29 Preserving data from the Internet of Things. (Will there be an Internet Archive equivalent of Google Streetview trucks?)
01:34 Constraints of historical technology (visualizing the ocean's doldrums).
01:37 Destruction as part of the digitization process. (Should you break a book's binding to scan it?)
01:38 Responsibility of creators to preserve their work. (Was President Chester Arthur justified in burning his papers two days before his death?)
01:46 Art and the right to be forgotten (as in ephemeral net art).
01:58 The obsession that is Archive Team. (18,000 manuals uploaded by Godane).
02:03 Crowdsourcing the file format problem and why it was a problem for industry professionals. ("They hated it. It was too expansive, we put everything in, like three-ring binders.")
02:08 Wrapup and shoutout to Archive Team.