Eric Weig, digital library architect
in the Special Collections Research Center, was an invited speaker at the recent
Dodging the Memory Hole (DTMH) 2016 national forum “Saving Online News.” The
forum, funded primarily through The Institute of Museum and Library Services, was
held at the University of Los Angeles.
In addition to his talk
titled “Working with CMS,” Eric led a discussion on the topic. He will also
serve as a mentor for a graduate SLIS student who won a scholarship to attend
the forum and will develop research based on preserving online news
content.
This is the fourth event in the DTMH conference series focusing on
preserving digital news content. The name, Dodging the Memory Hole, comes from
George Orwell’s “1984,” where photographs and documents conflicting with “Big
Brother's” narrative were tossed into a “memory hole” and destroyed.
Today's memory hole is largely the unintentional result of
technological systems not designed to keep information for the long term. The three
previous DTMH events were held at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the
University of Missouri, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Library in Charlotte,
N. C., and the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
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