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Connecting Preservation and Technology
I don’t need to be the umpteenth person to tell you, in dramatically vague terms, that cloud computing and software-as-a-service have (* Paul LaFontaine voice* ) changed the very society we live in. But every now and then I am reminded that the Big Tech consolidation and movement of everything online in the last ~15 years has fundamentally obstructed and obscured how computers work and most people’s understanding of what’s happening in/on the device right in front of them. [1] Google Drive’s native file “fo
And as individuals and institutions across the board, from enterprise-level research universities to local collectives, have quickly come to rely on cloud-based file hosting, I think it has become absolutely critical for archivists – whether it’s in the context of picking one’s own storage options for a digital preservation and access plan, or sifting through acquisition, management, and organization of other’s folks’ collections – to understand what these services actually are and what they are providing.
Ethan Gates | Welcome!