Articles

The Born-Digital Deluge: Documenting Twenty-First Century Events

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Abstract

With digital recording devices readily available to most people, events are documented and shared on-line in real time by the “person on the street.” The ease of creation and dissemination belies what archivists know will be the long-term challenges of organizing and preserving collections of born-digital information. While other processes require little modification, the inherent fragility of digital content and the ease of depositing files call for a substantial modification of established procedures. In this article, three University of Louisville archivists discuss their approach to the acquisition, copyright transfer, file naming, selection, description, and preservation of born-digital content donated by the local community to document Louisville’s August 2009 flood.

How to Cite:

Daniels, C., Fox, H. & Howard, R., (2011) “The Born-Digital Deluge: Documenting Twenty-First Century Events”, Archival Issues 33(2), 100–111. doi: https://doi.org//archivalissues.10978