OSCoffee: Close the Black hole - a quick scan of possible academic heritage
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- Tuesday 10 September 2024
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- An open OSCoffee for anyone to join!
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- Teams
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Close the Black hole: a quick scan of possible academic heritage
The Academic Heritage Foundation (SAE) has launched a national project to encourage universities to pay attention to born digital academic heritage. Scientific correspondence, professorships and research groups from previous centuries are now considered important examples of academic heritage. But what about the digital data that we all produce at universities today? Which digital files deserve to be preserved for the long term, so that they become part of the academic or national heritage of the future?
The first result of this SAE project is advice to the executive boards of universities in the Netherlands to pay attention to this theme in policy (see the advice Dicht het zwarte gat).
Leiden University's contribution to this national project is provided by DIA and UBL, both of which are involved in the implementation of both the Archives Act and the Heritage Act within LEI. Together they will map out in the form of a ‘quick scan’ which born digital academic heritage we are dealing with. The aim of the quick scan is to create a global overview with examples of born digital data that is produced at the university and that can (eventually) be qualified as heritage. With this inventory we want to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses (‘blackholes’) and into existing initiatives at the university that are relevant for safeguarding digital born academic heritage.
In this OSCoffee Imelda van Hooijdonk (DIA) wants to focus on born digital information that has potential to become long term preservable or even heritage. In order to make unique information from specialized sources available for the future, we need to be aware of what has been made in the digital age. This webinar will end with a discussion about born digital information within the different specialisations; what are the good and best practices surrounding information management, and what do you consider valuable information?
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