Notes on remediating loss
Emerging roles for librarians
Angela Galvan
The Ohio State University
Health Sciences Library
Code4Lib Midwest 2015
Why study this?
And even while we delight in building the shiny and the new…we know that someone, sooner or later, curates bits against our ruins.
(Nowiskie, 2014)
Contemporary grief practices
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Catalog the dead alongside us.
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Maintain relationships through linked data.
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Curate, discard, and re-purpose digital objects to suit our mourning.
We collect digital objects.
Technology complicates loss.
Digital estate management
Choice and consent
Emerging roles
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Create policy, standards, and practices.
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Help users develop inventories of digital assets.
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Develop tools for data migration.
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Digital estate management, permissions, access.
Thanks! Questions?
