Digital Archives
I just gave a presentation at the Interior Design Studio, Parson School of Design about Digital Archives, particularly the work that I did at the New Museum. Obviously there are wide range of resources on archives. I would highly suggest Jacques Derrida’s book Archive Fever as a critical/philosophical start. If you like to go technical, here are some links that you may want to check it out. Of course wikipedia is a very good resource to learn about the concepts and terms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library If you are talking about Digital Archive, one of the main issue is the Metadata. Here is the Metadata resources: http://archive.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm If watching is easier than reading; http://www.ted.com/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html Archiving is a lot of manual work, even for companies like Google;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOQuuLYavY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCOXC5PTJj8
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