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Failure As Process: Interrogating Disaster, Loss, And Recovery In Digital Preservation, Carly Dearborn, Sam Meister
Failure As Process: Interrogating Disaster, Loss, And Recovery In Digital Preservation, Carly Dearborn, Sam Meister
Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
Disaster, loss, and failure preoccupy the minds of many digital preservation professionals and yet, despite the prominence of digital disaster planning guidelines which seem to anticipate failure, there is limited discussion of experience with preservation system or network failures, which are often framed as inevitable in digital preservation. Despite this framing, negative perceptions of failure influence the digital preservation discourse by associating failure with poor planning, unreliability, and untrustworthiness on the part of institutions. This article will interrogate the issue of failure within the digital preservation field and consider the need for more conversations around network failure and recovery. The …
Preserving Digital Information., Rachel Howard
Preserving Digital Information., Rachel Howard
Faculty Scholarship
The University of Louisville participates in a federally-funded partnership, the MetaArchive Cooperative, to develop a protocol for the distributed preservation of digital cultural heritage materials.