Newseum & Future of Information Alliance -- Panel -- The Future of the Digital Present: Archiving the Ephemera of the Information Age:
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Description of Pictures: Special Program: The Future of the Digital Present: Archiving the Ephemera of the Information Age
Future of Information Alliance
Guests: Paul Sparrow, Daniel Russell, Howard Besser, Miles Ludwig and Anne Wootton. NOTE: Miles Ludwig did not attend.
The Newseum will host a program exploring the unparalleled challenges associated with the rapid expansion of content across all forms of media. Preservation and management of born-digital and other materials faces an array of obstacles — technical, financial, legal, and cultural — that will be discussed by innovators working on searchable audio, the evolution of web search, and the archiving of children's television and social movements.
* Paul Sparrow, Senior Vice President for Broadcasting and New Media at the Newseum, will moderate the program. He oversees the Newseum’s Web site, social networks, interactive exhibits and video production. As an Emmy-Award winning television producer, he created more than 300 hours of prime-time programming and more than a dozen documentaries and network specials.
* Daniel Russell, is known as Google’s “director of user happiness” and has been involved with the Future of Information Alliance since its inception. He is also an evangelist for search education and has offered popular MOOCs - massive open online courses - that have attracted tens of thousands of students around the world.
* Howard Besser, a Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University, has been honored by the Library of Congress as a Digital Preservation Pioneer. Since the 1970s he has worked for museums, libraries, and archives on technologies, standards, and collaboration. At NYU, Dr. Besser directs the master’s degree program in moving image archiving and preservation.
* Anne Wootton is the co-founder of Pop Up Archive, a platform of simple tools to help media companies and archives find and reuse sound. Pop Up Archive began at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley and was co ...More...
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FIA1_131205_019.JPG: Sound check guy
FIA1_131205_079.JPG: Howard Besser
FIA1_131205_089.JPG: Allison Druin and Ira Chinoy
FIA1_131205_109.JPG: Anne Wootton
FIA1_131205_119.JPG: (left to right) Paul Sparrow, Anne Wootton, Howard Besser, and Daniel Russell
(far right) Allison Druin and Ira Chinoy
FIA1_131205_151.JPG: Ira Chinoy
FIA1_131205_158.JPG: Anne Wootton
FIA1_131205_162.JPG: Daniel Russell
FIA1_131205_181.JPG: Paul Sparrow
FIA1_131205_214.JPG: Jim Duff
FIA1_131205_224.JPG: (left to right) Paul Sparrow, Anne Wootton, Howard Besser, Daniel Russell, and Jim Duff
FIA1_131205_279.JPG: Lucy A. Dalglish, Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland
FIA3_131205_136.JPG: "Someday I'm gonna spend a month organizing all this, but I plug [hard drives] in until I find what I need."
-- Paul Ingles, Independent Producer Liaison to NPR
FIA3_131205_142.JPG: "Imagine being able to find a sentence somewhere in your archive. That would be an amazing tool."
-- Ben Walker, WFMU II, Too Much Information
FIA3_131205_149.JPG: Isn't radio in its death throes?
FIA3_131205_154.JPG: Nearly a million people download each This American Life podcast; Soundcloud has over 20 million members and adds 1.5 million to that each month.
FIA3_131205_161.JPG: It's true that video, not audio, has gotten the lion's share of attention on the web...
FIA3_131205_163.JPG: ... but I can't watch any of those services while I do dishes, drive my car, clean my house, or go for a run.
FIA3_131205_168.JPG: What about when the Internet is in our cars? In our pockets? In our ears?
FIA3_131205_174.JPG: Journalists and scholars shouldn't rely on YouTube -- or their memories -- to find audio.
YouTube wasn't built for audio.
Memories fade.
FIA3_131205_177.JPG: "To really unlock the informational power of sound... we need more tools to make it plastic, parsable, and findable."
-- Clive Thompson, Wired Magazine
FIA3_131205_183.JPG: It's not a question about the digital storage of audio -- it's a question of retrieval.
FIA3_131205_274.JPG: But w/all these photos & videos floating around the Web:
* How do we know which was taken when?
* How do we find the media taken before a particular crackdown (at that site or another)?
* How do we know if it's okay to re-use one of these posted photos or videos (or even to migrate it for preservation purposes)?
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2013 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000 and Nikon D600.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Memphis, TN, Jackson, MS [to which I added a week to to visit sites in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee], and Richmond, VA), and
my 8th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Nevada and California).
Ego Strokes: Aviva Kempner used my photo of her as her author photo in Larry Ruttman's "American Jews & America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball" book.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 570,000.
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