A crowd of coders, lawyers, librarians, designers, & tinkerers typing away next to @HLSlib. Home of @caselawaccess @permacc @opencasebook. Where @instd began
This series is part of our work investigating not just the technical, but the human and societal routes to long-term digital preservation. You can also check out @maxnc's Century-Scale Storage on our website.
https://t.co/mYZxR6paEY
LIL fellow @maxnc asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?"
Their answers: https://t.co/LbAlTTAIPJ
One answer from Frank Cifaldi who is the Founder and Director of the Video Game History Foundation:
"I would have the best copyright lawyers in the country figuring out how we can actually make this work."
https://t.co/M2AzM6QcyF
LIL is looking for a Product and Research Manager to help create, shape, and execute on our portfolio of open knowledge projects. PRMs work across every piece of the LIL ecosystem, from software experimentation to convening of events. Learn more at https://t.co/pk58Jt2ZmG
Thrilled to share that @maxnc's "Century-Scale Storage" was nominated for a Webby Award!
You can vote in the "Best Individual Editorial Feature" category here: https://t.co/7sFyktj7ef
The big long essay “Century-Scale Storage” that I wrote for @HarvardLIL back in December has been nominated for a Webby Award for Best Individual Editorial Feature! There’s a link below if you wanna vote for it but mostly just so psyched for everyone involved!
As the Institutional Data Initiative (@instdin) expands its mission, we’re announcing a collaboration with the Boston Public Library (@BPLBoston) to develop AI-driven tools capable of accelerating new digitization at libraries across the world, starting at BPL. 🧵
I'm pleased to announce we're expanding our mission at the Institutional Data Initiative (@instdin) with an open call for institutional collaborators, new digitization at Harvard Law School Library, and additional support to advance this work.
"We picked a century scale because most physical objects can survive 100 years in good care. It is attainable, and yet we selected it because the design of mainstream digital storage mediums are nowhere close to even considering this mark."
https://t.co/6rRAxlwPFO
The question is "simple".
This essay starts at the birthplace of the IBM 305 RAMAC, looks at the cloud, clay tablets, tape drives, distributed storage...But technology alone will never be the whole answer.
Maxwell Neely-Cohen is a writer, technologist & fellow at LIL. Link👇
More news! @instdin officially launched today. This massive effort was conceived at LIL by Greg Leppert, who's now leading the charge as executive director. Our mission to bring library principles to technological frontiers is embedded in IDI's purpose. Thrilled to see it thrive!
ICYMI Century-Scale Storage came out yesterday, a massive multi-section essay I wrote on the present and future perils of digital storage for @HarvardLIL https://t.co/vT2CJIWA0h
Read the essay here: https://t.co/6rRAxlxnvm
Words: @maxnc
Art & Design: @shheeelllbby & @spacefillerart
Editing: @clare__stanton
Add'l Editing: Meg Miller, Gillian Brassil
Web accessibility: Rebecca Cremona & Ben Steinberg
The question is "simple".
This essay starts at the birthplace of the IBM 305 RAMAC, looks at the cloud, clay tablets, tape drives, distributed storage...But technology alone will never be the whole answer.
Maxwell Neely-Cohen is a writer, technologist & fellow at LIL. Link👇
📣The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law is hiring a full stack Senior Software Engineer to help us build tools that bring library principles to technological frontiers! Apply here: https://t.co/sEC41LUBw8
The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is hiring an Engineering Director to help us bring library principles to technological frontiers! Apply here: https://t.co/XAml6w7yhU