Challenges in the Digital Preservation of Society’s Cultural Memory Archive.
As I stated in past logs, our research group has formulated a research question about digital archiving and preserving memories of the Junction Triangle. I was doing research in the Ryerson Library and I came across this article about constructing a global time capsule and preserving cultural memory archives. The article written by Sarah Hamid, writes about the “acquisition, organization and distribution of resources to prevent further deterioration or renew the usability of selected groups of materials”. In other words, the author Sarah Hamid, talks about the need for future generations to have access to their ancestor’s “knowledge” and accountability. We are now moving away from analog archiving towards a more sophisticated form of digital archiving but this comes with more questions than solutions. With the shear amount of technological overload, we find ourselves asking “what can we save”…however we are also asking ourselves “what can we delete”, to make room for this accountability of information. Sarah Hamid proposes a global time capsule, in which information technology has led to the increase potential for the storage of infinite amounts of information. This global time capsule will prevent “natural amnesia” of knowledge and our human ability to gather all this information. The objectivity of the time capsule will focus on content, the medium and the people behind their choices. This article will allow for our group to further understand the preservation of cultural memories of the Junction as we can potentially create a local time capsule, through digital archiving for future generations to learn about the history of their community.
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