The Museum of Obsolete Technology.

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Ken Corbett

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Aug 15, 2011, 6:25:28 PM8/15/11
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Our discussions today reminded me of a paper about the National Archives in Washington and the problems they are encountering while attempting to preserve information stored on obsolete information systems. In a seminar of graduate students from a variety of disciplines at UBC it also raised questions of when do we decide that scraps of paper, "tweets", or voice recordings are not worth saving. 

I have included the reference below should anyone be interested in following up with it.

Alexander Stille, "Are We Losing Our Memory? Or the Museum of Obsolete Technology" in The Future of the Past (2003): 299-309.

Cheers, 

Ken

Situating Science

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Aug 22, 2011, 12:41:20 PM8/22/11
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HI Ken,

I know that the National Archives are addressing this issue as well,
with attention to cataloging discontinued websites and pages
(preserving electronic records).

You may be interested in the Society's posts on this issue:
http://archivists.ca/

Good to see you all! Mighty impressive.

Best,
et
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