Date/time

Reading/Media

Location

Tuesday, March 25 2025, 1-1:50pm ET

Viewing: “Centering Sustainability: A New model for digital stewardship”, a 30-minute talk by Keith Pendergrass at the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Digital Preservation for an Uncertain Futureevent

• Guest facilitator: Keith Pendergrass, Baker Library and Special Collections, Harvard Business School

• Link to slides from presentation

Zoom

Tuesday, April 29 2025, 1-1:50pm ET

TBA

Zoom

Tuesday, May 27 2025, 1-1:50pm ET

TBA

Zoom

Tuesday, June 25, 2025, 1-1:50pm ET

TBA

Zoom

Date/time

Reading/Media

Location

Tuesday, February 25 2025, 1-1:50pm ET

Reading: Messarra, L., Freeland, C. & Ziskina, J., 2024. Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record, Internet Archive. United States of America.

• We will focus on “Part 1: Part 1: Media Preservation and the Production of Public Memory”, pages 3-32

Zoom

Wednesday, October 30 2024, 2-3pm ET

Watching: "Introducing the Digital Stewardship Appraisal Framework," given by Nathan Tallman, Lauren Work, Martha Anderson, Virginia Dressler, and Chelsea Denault at a recent Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) event called "Reappraising Appraisal"

• Optional additional links:

  • Presentation slides

  • Digital Stewardship Appraisal Framework: Guidelines and Criteria to Select for Digital Preservation publication

• Guest facilitator: Julianna Barrera-Gomez (Digital Accessions Specialist, Digital Preservation Services, HL Preservation Services)

Zoom

July/August

Summer break

n/a

Tuesday, June 25 2024, 1-2pm

Reading: Alkemade, Henk, Steven Claeyssens, Giovanni Colavizza, Nuno Freire, Jörg Lehmann, Clemens Neudecker, Giulia Osti, and Daniel van Strien. “Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Datasets.” Journal of Open Humanities Data, October 30, 2023. https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.124.

• Guest facilitators: Matt Cook (Digital Scholarship Program Manager); Kai Fay (Discovery & Access Strategic Projects Manager); and Katie Mika (Data Services Librarian)

Zoom

Tuesday, May 28 2024, 1-2pm

Viewing: Digital Preservation Coalition's Digital Preservation and Environmental Impact

• Discussion will focus on three recorded presentations (linked below):

  • Carbon Emissions and Long-Term Digital Preservation (27 mins)

  • The DPC's Climate Action Plan (29 mins)

  • A New Guidance Note on Environmental Impact (11 mins)

• Guest facilitator: Keith Pendergrass (Digital Archivist, Baker Library Special Collections and Archives)

Zoom

Tuesday, April 23 2024, 1-2pm

Viewing: Digital Preservation Coalition's Digital Forensics and Digital Preservation: Investigating Good Practice

• Discussion will focus on three recorded presentations (linked below):

  • Digital Preservation and Digital Forensics: A Marriage Made in Bitstreams

  • D(A)ANNNG and Forensics: The Extra A is for Agnosticism
    

  • Maintaining Good Practice through Policy in Digital Preservation and Digital Forensics

• Guest facilitator: Julianna Barrera-Gomez (Digital Accessions Specialist, Digital Preservation Services)

Zoom

Tuesday, March 26 2024, 1-2pm ET

Visual Media Workshop at the University of Pittsburgh. The Socio-Technical Sustainability Roadmap. http://sustainingdh.net.

• Discussion will focus on "Section A: Project Survey" modules

• Guest facilitator: Chelcie Juliet Rowell (Associate Head of Digital Collections Discovery)

Zoom

Tuesday, February 27 2024, 1-2pm ET

Phil Salvador. “Survey of the Video Game Reissue Market in the United States”. Zenodo, July 10, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8161056.

• Shorter recap of this article: https://gamehistory.org/study-explainer/

Zoom

December/January

Break for Winter

N/A

Tuesday, November 28 2023, 1-2pm ET

Faulder, Erin and Laura Uglean Jackson. "Digital Processing: Exploring the enigma." The American Archivist (2022) 85 (1): 146–172. Link: https://doi.org/10.17723/2327-9702-85.1.146

• Guest facilitators: Kate Neptune (Associate Archivist, Baker Library, HBS) and Sara Rogers ( Collection Management Archivist, GSD), co-chairs of the Born-Digital Content Description Task Force

Zoom

Tuesday, October 24 2023, 1-2pm ET

Stapelfeldt, Krista, Sukhvir Khera, Natkeeran Ledchumykanthan, Lara Gomez, Erin Liu, and Sonia Dhaliwal. "Strategies for Preserving Digital Scholarship / Humanities Projects." Code4Lib Journal, May 9, 2022. Link: https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/16370

• Guest facilitators: Matt Cook (Digital Scholarship Program Manager, Harvard Library) and Lindsay Whitacre (Digital Content Manager Librarian, Gutman Library, GSE)

Zoom

Tuesday, September 26 2023, 1-2pm ET

Keitel, Christian and Jenny Mitcham. "Defining the Designated Community." DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note. Digital Preservation Coalition, July 2023. Link: http://doi.org/10.7207/twgn23-01

• Guest facilitator: Dr. Stephen Abrams (Head of Digital Preservation Services)

• Note: Until late August 2023, this publication requires a login to access. Harvard Library is a DPC member, and staff may create a login, indicating Harvard Library as your member affiliation.

Zoom

July, August 2023

BREAK FOR JULY AND AUGUST

N/A

Tuesday, June 27 2023, 1-2pm ET

Gold, Hannah. “Emails Are Forever: Wading through Chris Kraus’s Inbox.” Astra Magazine. Astra Magazine, October 6, 2022. https://astra-mag.com/articles/emails-are-forever/.

Zoom

Tuesday, May 23 2023, 1-2pm ET

Haupt, Tracee. “Why Web Archiving?: A Conversation with Web Archivists and Researchers.” The Library of Congress. The Signal, June 29, 2022. https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2022/06/why-web-archiving-a-conversation-with-web-archivists-and-researchers/.

Panel "#WhyWebArchiving: Preserving Internet Content for Research Use" hosted at the 2022 Web Archiving Conference.

Zoom

Tuesday, April 25 2023, 1-2pm ET

Rieger, Oya Y., Roger C. Schonfeld, and Liam Sweeney. "The Effectiveness and Durability of Digital Preservation and Curation Systems." Ithaka S+R. Last Modified 19 July 2022. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.316990.

Zoom

Tuesday, March 28 2023, 1-2pm ET

Viewing: Evangelestia-Dougherty, Tamar. "Digital Ties That Bind: Effectively Engaging With Communities For Equitable Digital Preservation Ecosystems." Keynote address at iPres 2022. Link:

Zoom

Tuesday, February 28 2023, 1-2pm ET

Wiedeman, Greg. "Designing Digital Discovery and Access Systems for Archival Description." Code4Lib Journal, January 20, 2023. Link: https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/16963 

Zoom

Wednesday, October 26th from 12:30-1:30pm ET

No DPRC meeting for October 2022, but we invite interested colleagues to attend the NDSA-hosted community conversation on the Ithaka S+R publication, "The Effectiveness and Durability of Digital Preservation and Curation Systems."

Zoom

Wednesday, September 28 2022, 1-2pm ET

Open discussion: What is your earliest memory of the internet? We'll share our internet memories of yore and discuss whether any of them have persisted and how.

Zoom

Break during July/August 2022

Harvard Recharge break

n/a

Tuesday, June 28 2022, 1-2pm ET

Tallman, Nathan. “A 21st Century Technical Infrastructure for Digital Preservation.” ejournals.bc.edu, December 20, 2021. Link: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v40i4.13355.

Zoom

Tuesday, May 17 2022, 1-2pm ET

Ruckstuhl, Katharina. “Trust in Scholarly Communications and Infrastructure: Indigenous Data Sovereignty.” Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, January 12, 2022. Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2021.752336/full.

Zoom

Tuesday, April 26 2022, 1-2pm ET

Clarke, Mary. “The Digital Dilemma: Preservation and the Digital Archaeological Record.” Advances in Archaeological Practice 3, no. 4 (2015): 313–30. Link: https://doi.org/10.7183/2326-3768.3.4.313.

Zoom

Tuesday, March 29 2022, 1-2pm ET

Ogden, Jessica. “‘Everything on the Internet Can Be Saved’: Archive Team, Tumblr and the Cultural Significance of Web Archiving.” Internet Histories, 2021, pp. 1–20., Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2021.1985835.

Zoom

Thursday, February 24 2022, 2-3pm ET

Acker, A. "Emulation practices for software preservation in libraries, archives, and museums." J Assoc Inf Sci Technol. 2021; 72: 1148– 1160. Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24482

• Optional reading: Rothenberg, J. "Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents." Scientific American, 1995; 272(1):42-7 (international edition, pp. 24-9).

Zoom

Tuesday, November 30 2021, 1-2pm ET

Noonan, Dan, and Matt McShane. “Digital Preservation Ethos @ University Libraries.” OSU Libraries. Ohio State University, October 19, 2021. Link: http://go.osu.edu/DigiPresEthos.

Zoom

Tuesday, October 26 2021, 1-2pm ET

Jaillant, Lise. “After the Digital Revolution: Working with Emails and Born-Digital Records in Literary and Publishers’ Archives.” Archives and Manuscripts 47, no. 3 (2019): 285–304. Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2019.1640555.

Zoom

Wednesday, September 22 2021, noon - 1pm ET

Dearborn, Carly, and Sam Meister. “Failure as Process: Interrogating Disaster, Loss, and Recovery in Digital Preservation.” Alexandria 27, no. 2 (August 2017): 83–93. Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749017722076.

Zoom

Wednesday, August 25 2021, noon-1pm ET via Zoom

Boss K, Broussard M. Challenges of archiving and preserving born-digital news applications. IFLA Journal. 2017;43(2):150-157. doi:10.1177/0340035216686355 - (pages 14-21 in the linked PDF) 

Zoom

Wednesday, June 23 2021, noon-1pm ET

Wheatley, Paul. “A Valediction for Validation?” Digital Preservation Coalition, October 11, 2018. Link: https://www.dpconline.org/blog/a-valediction-for-validation

Zoom

Wednesday, May 26 2021, noon-1pm

• Li, Bingzhe, Nae Young Song, Li Ou, and David H.C. Du. "Can We Store the Whole World's Data in DNA Storage?", HotStorage 2020.

• Leproust, Emily. "DNA Storage for Digital Preservation," Stanford Research Talk, 2021.

• Optional additional material: Antonini, Marc, Luis Cruz, Eduardo da Silva, Melpomeni Dimopoulou, Siegfried Foessel, António Pinheiro, and Mohamad Raad. “DNA-Based Media Storage: State-of-the-Art, Challenges, Use Cases and Requirements Version 3.0," edited by Tourad Ebrahimi and Fernando Pereira. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC29/WG1, 2021. 

Zoom

Wednesday, April 28 2021, noon-1pm

• Whitaker, Amy. 2019. Art and blockchain: A primer, history, and taxonomy of blockchain use cases in the arts. Artivate 8, (2) (Summer): 21-46, http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/scholarly-journals/art-blockchain/docview/2451927196/se-2?accountid=11311 (accessed March 30, 2021).

• Walsh, Colleen. “Harvard Curator Examines the Worth of a Digital Work of Art.” Harvard Gazette. Harvard Gazette, March 24, 2021. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/harvard-curator-examines-the-worth-of-a-digital-work-of-art/.

Zoom

Wednesday, March 24 2021, noon-1pm

Burns, Julie, Laura Farley, Siobhan C. Hagan, Paul Kelly, and Lisa Warwick. “Archive This Moment D.C.: A Case Study of Participatory Collecting During COVID-19.” Code4Lib Journal, February 10, 2021. Link: https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15534.

Zoom

Wednesday, February 24 2021, noon-1pm

Blumenthal, Karl, Peggy Griesinger, Julia Y. Kim, Shira Peltzman, and Vicky Steeves. "What’s Wrong with Digital Stewardship: Evaluating the Organization of Digital Preservation Programs from Practitioners’ Perspectives." Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 7 , Article 13 (2020).

Zoom

Wednesday, December 2 2020, noon-1pm

The Open Preservation Foundation. "2019-20 Digital Preservation Community Survey: Findings Report." Open Preservation Foundation, September 28, 2020.

Zoom

Wednesday, October 28 2020, noon-1pm

Smithies, James, Carina Westling, Anna-Maria Sichani, Pam Mellen, and Arianna Ciula. "Managing 100 Digital Humanities Projects: Digital Scholarship & Archiving in King’s Digital Lab." Digital Humanities Quarterly 13, no. 1 (2019).

Zoom

Wednesday, September 23 2020, noon-1pm

Jules, Bergis. "Confronting Our Failure of Care Around the Legacies of Marginalized People in the Archives." Medium. November 12, 2016. (Originally a keynote speech at NDSA DigiPres 2016.)

Zoom

Wednesday, August 26 2020, noon-1pm

Web, Colin, David Pearson, and Paul Koerben. "'Oh, You Wanted Us to Preserve That?!' Statements of Preservation Intent for the National Library of Australias Digital Collections." D-Lib Magazine 19, no. 1/2 (January 2013).

Zoom

Wednesday, July 29 2020, noon-1pm

Caswell, Michelle. "Whose Digital Preservation? Locating Our Standpoints to Reallocate Resources." Keynote presentation given in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2019.

Zoom

Wednesday, June 24 2020, noon-1pm

The Information Maintainers, Olson, D., Meyerson, J., Parsons, M. A., Castro, J., Lassere, M., … Acker, A. "Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care." Zenodo, June 17 2019.

Zoom

Wednesday, May 27 2020, noon-1pm

Ziegler, S.L. "Digitization Selection Criteria as Anti-Racist Action." Code4Lib, Issue 45: August 9, 2019.

Zoom

Wednesday, April 29 2020, noon-1pm

Tallman, Nathan and Lauren Work. "Approaching Appraisal: Guidelines and Criteria to Select for Digital Preservation." OSF. iPRES, October 2018.

Zoom

Thursday, March 26 2020, noon-1pm

RESCHEDULED

n/a

Wednesday, February 26 2020, noon-1pm

Adair, Ashley, Maria Esteva, and Benn Chang. “Early Exit Strategies in Digital Preservation.” OSF. iPRES, September 27, 2019.

Widener 145

Wednesday, January 29 2020, noon-1pm

Pendergrass, Keith L., Walker Sampson, Tessa Walsh, and Laura Alagna. “Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation.” The American Archivist 82, no. 1 (March 2019): 165–206.

Widener 145

Thursday, November 7 2019, noon-1pm

Gallinger, Michelle, Jefferson Bailey, Karen Cariani, Trevor Owens, and Micah Altman. “Trends in Digital Preservation Capacity and Practice: Results from the 2nd Bi-Annual National Digital Stewardship Alliance Storage Survey.” D-Lib Magazine 23, no. 7/8 (July 2017).

90 Mt Auburn, Room 021

Thursday, November 29 2018, 4-5pm

Rieger, Oya Y. "The State of Digital Preservation in 2018: A Snapshot of Challenges and Gaps." Ithaka S+R. Last Modified 29 October 2018.

90 Mt Auburn, Room 021