What I Learned, What Will Come Next & What Has to Be Done

It’s time to move forward to the next part of my journey, based on my selected research methodology. My last post indicated that I started to develop the web platform and an Instagram account to help communicate the ideas of the project to the audiences, which eventually goes to both transformation and convergence part of the methodology. This will include incoming iteration processes ahead!

The social curation canvas provided by a colleague (as stated in this post) is an effective tool to help me describe and specify every aspects that I expected from the project. It is incredibly concise, and everything I needed when it comes describing my project to stakeholders, experts, gatekeepers, and collaborators. I learned about the power of gatekeepers and serendipity. If I don’t do a volunteer work during summer, I wouldn’t even have any idea or discover this powerful tool.
Shown below is the newest version of my social curation canvas.

One concern that rise during the tutorial session is how do I measure the accomplishment of my intervention. How can I measure the audiences’ visual literacy? This led me to another further research already conducted in many art education systems that I can integrate into my project. The diagram next to this text refers to the framework I’m using to test my intervention. Further readings on this subject is listed below.
One thing that I shouldn’t overlook from this project overall is about the ethical issues. A recent conversation with a collaborator asking about whether or not it’s ethical to reproduce the existing images in the ephemeras visuals led to a non-existing ethical rules regarding the subject in Indonesia. This also will be another thing that I should dig about further. To tackle the ethical issues on image sharing and copyrights, I decided to make everything cited inside the posts and do the checks before publishing.

What has to be done – the challenges [1]

Knowledge Creation: Contribute to Research and Development
There is an urgent need to augment research in the area of digital preservation. Projects which further our knowledge in the challenges of preserving various types of materialsmaps, archival materials, color documents, bound volumes, data-sets, music, and electronic formats like SGML, PDF, ASCII, HTMLmust be undertaken.
Digital Triage: Developing Guidelines for What Can and Should Be Saved
There should be informed skepticism about the claims of organizations that say they will archive the Internet. The library and archival communities already know that not everything can and should be saved. What is key is selecting which digital resources to preserve and which ones not to preserve.
Rescue Operations: Ensure Vital Electronic Documents are Preserved Now
Librarians and archivists need to work with industry to develop simple and cost effective print-to-microfilm systems; this will enable archives to preserve documentary collections that are provided in proprietary formats such as word-processors in a cost-effective fashion to be effectively preserved.
Document Formats: So Many to Chose From
Mixed media and multiple document formats will continue to remain the fly-in-the- ointment of digital collections. Multiple formats may require maintaining multiple hardware/software platforms and will confound simple migration to new storage media.
Being Legal: Rights Management and Access Control
Licensing will be one of the most important things that an archive will be required to do in the electronic realm. The management of diverse licensing arrangements promises to be a significant administrative and technical challenge for preservation purposes.
Wave the Flag: Promoting the Importance of Preservation
Librarians and archivists must engage in a concerted effort to raise the profile of preservation.
All for One, One for All: Working Together
Archiving decisions for materials which are common to many libraries will be made in consultation with other libraries to determine the appropriate forms and sharing- mechanisms.
Digital Preservation as a Public Good
Librarians and archivists protect the public interest by making information available to the community and by asserting the importance of maintaining a record of our collective intellectual heritage.

learning log

What I Learned, What Will Come Next & What Has to Be Done

What has to be done – the challenges [1]

Further Readings