What many folks don’t realize is that an archive now means much more than that, since the stuff being saved has gone beyond paper. Digital archives are all around us and today, the first annual Day of Digital Archives, we’re helping to “raise awareness of digital archives among both users and managers.” Digital archives increasingly store born-digital materials. Born-digital means anything that was originally created on an electronic device. Think about photos you take with your digital camera or phone, documents you type up in Microsoft Word, email you send from your Web mail account, and even your Facebook posts or Twitter tweets. Here at the State Library, we talk a lot about digitized materials (which started out in print but were reformatted to digital), but we also do a lot of work with born-digital materials that you may not know about.
Day of Digital Archives 2011 – GHL Blog Today is the Day of Digital Archives (via archivalia)
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Woah! I consider KYM to be a digital archive and I’m really stoked there’s an official day to appreciate them.
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I didn’t know it was Digital Archives Day. Cool.
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