Archiving born-digital content: What should be saved & why?

Submitted by montgomeryl on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 1:28pm
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Session Convenor: 
Leigh Montgomery
Session Reporter: 
Leigh Montgomery
Discussion Participants: 
Anne Anderson Barbara Iverson Barbara Kantrowitz Tom Stites John Hamer

A short presentation was shown on MONITOR content, that has been digitized by the first 1908 edition, finding new readers, opportunities for storytelling, and traffic.  It has also resulted in more sales of historic content from a vendor partner.  This was after the launch of Google News Search, which indexes premium content.


 


As the MONITOR proceeds to go to a web-first model, there is concern about what should be prioritized to be archived.  Currently, blog content is not archived in a DAM, neither is multimedia.  There is no formal policy for archiving this content nor is there metadata added to it.


All attendees emphatically felt that every effort should be made to capture this content, as it will be of interest a century later, and it could added another revenue stream.  

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