Upcoming Meetings

• We're taking a break during July and August for the Harvard Recharge initiative. We'll be back in September - see you then!

Past Meetings

• Tuesday, June 28 2022, 1-2pm ET on Zoom - reading: Tallman, Nathan. “A 21st Century Technical Infrastructure for Digital Preservation.” ejournals.bc.edu, December 20, 2021. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v40i4.13355.
• Tuesday, May 17 2022, 1-2pm ET on Zoom - reading: Ruckstuhl, Katharina. “Trust in Scholarly Communications and Infrastructure: Indigenous Data Sovereignty.” Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, January 12, 2022. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2021.752336/full.
• Tuesday, April 26 2022, 1-2pm ET via Zoom - reading: Clarke, Mary. “The Digital Dilemma: Preservation and the Digital Archaeological Record.” Advances in Archaeological Practice 3, no. 4 (2015): 313–30. https://doi.org/10.7183/2326-3768.3.4.313.
• Tuesday, March 29 2022, 1-2pm ET via Zoom - reading: 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., https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2021.1985835.
• Thursday, February 24 2022, 2-3pm ET via Zoom - reading: Acker, A. "Emulation practices for software preservation in libraries, archives, and museums." J Assoc Inf Sci Technol. 2021; 72: 1148– 1160. 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).
• Tuesday, November 30 2021, 1-2pm ET via Zoom - reading: Noonan, Dan, and Matt McShane. “Digital Preservation Ethos @ University Libraries.” OSU Libraries. Ohio State University, October 19, 2021. http://go.osu.edu/DigiPresEthos.
• Tuesday, October 26 2021, 1-2pm ET via Zoom - reading: 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2019.1640555.
• Wednesday, September 22 2021, noon - 1pm ET via Zoom - reading: Dearborn, Carly, and Sam Meister. “Failure as Process: Interrogating Disaster, Loss, and Recovery in Digital Preservation.” Alexandria 27, no. 2 (August 2017): 83–93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749017722076.
• Wednesday, August 25 2021, noon-1pm ET via Zoom - reading: 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)
• Wednesday, June 23 2021, noon-1pm ET via Zoom - reading: Wheatley, Paul. “A Valediction for Validation?” Digital Preservation Coalition, October 11, 2018. https://www.dpconline.org/blog/a-valediction-for-validation.
• Wednesday, May 26 2021, noon-1pm via Zoom - reading/viewing:
  • 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. 
• Wednesday, April 28 2021, noon-1pm via Zoom - readings:
  • 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/.
• Wednesday, March 24 2021, noon-1pm via Zoom - reading: 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. https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15534.
  
• Wednesday, February 24 2021, noon-1pm via Zoom - reading: 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).
  
• Wednesday, December 2 2020, noon-1pm via Zoom - reading: The Open Preservation Foundation. "2019-20 Digital Preservation Community Survey: Findings Report." Open Preservation Foundation, September 28, 2020.
  
• Wednesday, October 28 2020, noon-1pm via Zoom - reading: 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).
• Wednesday, September 23 2020, noon-1pm via Zoom - reading: 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.)
• Wednesday, August 26 2020, noon-1pm via Zoom - reading: 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).
• Wednesday, July 29 2020, noon-1pm via Zoom - viewing: Caswell, Michelle. "Whose Digital Preservation? Locating Our Standpoints to Reallocate Resources." Keynote presentation given in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2019.
• Wednesday, June 24 2020, noon-1pm via Zoom - reading: 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.
• Wednesday, May 27 2020, noon-1pm via Zoom - reading: Ziegler, S.L. "Digitization Selection Criteria as Anti-Racist Action." Code4Lib, Issue 45: August 9, 2019.
• Wednesday, April 29 2020, noon-1pm via Zoom - reading: Tallman, Nathan and Lauren Work. "Approaching Appraisal: Guidelines and Criteria to Select for Digital Preservation." OSF. iPRES, October 2018.
• Thursday, March 26 2020, noon-1pm - RESCHEDULED
• Wednesday, February 26 2020, noon-1pm in Widener 145 - reading: Adair, Ashley, Maria Esteva, and Benn Chang. “Early Exit Strategies in Digital Preservation.” OSF. iPRES, September 27, 2019.
• Wednesday, January 29 2020, noon-1pm in Widener Room 145 - reading: Pendergrass, Keith L., Walker Sampson, Tim Walsh, and Laura Alagna. “Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation.” The American Archivist 82, no. 1 (March 2019): 165–206.
• Thursday, November 7 2019, noon-1pm in 90 Mt Auburn Room 021 - reading: 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).
• Thursday, November 29 2018, 4-5pm in 90 Mt Auburn Room 021 - reading: Rieger, Oya Y. "The State of Digital Preservation in 2018: A Snapshot of Challenges and Gaps." Ithaka S+R. Last Modified 29 October 2018.