Small Steps Down the Superhighway: Preserving Born-Digital Artifacts and Creating Digital Archives
“Small Steps Down the Superhighway” is a paper written for an audience of archival professionals, intended to distill a huge and complicated field into a straightforward beginner’s guide to digital archiving. It introduces basic vocabulary and types of digital media, covers risks and inherent vice, discusses different institutional approaches, and ends with practical tips and advice. Throughout, it emphasizes the need for urgent action and the need for librarians and archivists to be leaders in their institutions despite the early stages and speculative nature of the field.
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SLOs met: 2. Demonstrate leadership attributes for a variety of information environments. 4. Access, synthesize, and evaluate information to assist information seekers. 5. Integrate evolving technologies and theories that underpin their design, application, and use with library and information services. 6. Analyze current and historical trends to forecast future directions of the library and information field.