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Fwd: Wikipedia "Digital Preservation" page strategies -- Email resent

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Stephen Paul Davis <[log in to unmask]>

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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:31:46 -0500
To: [log in to unmask]
From: Stephen Paul Davis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Wikipedia "Digital Preservation" page strategies

Folks:

I apologize the delay in getting to the task I volunteered for, namely
looking at the current Wikipedia Digital Preservation article to see what
might be done to make it more useful for our efforts. After spending a
fair amount of time thinking of different approaches, I ended up drafting
an outline for a new article (attached) that could serve as a starting
point for us to work on a replacement of the current one.

Let me say a few words of explanation about some of the choices suggested
in the new outline. Clearly problems with the current article include,
but are not limited to:

- dated content; many newer developments are not included
- somewhat haphazard, additive organization
- areas that are too specific and need to be brought back up to a more
general level on the one hand and allow for more lower level subtopics or
links to related articles on the other

I also came to the conclusion that a major problem -- and one that I think
needs to be thought about before we start adding substantive new content
and links -- is that the piece does not really provide a contextual
framework in which the information is to be understood, instead leaping
too quickly into assertions and descriptions of digital preservation as a
known set of specific processes and issues.

The world of Digital Preservation has expanded considerably in the last few
of years and has many more players and stakeholders now Taking this into
account, I propose we start by characterizing Digital Preservation in the
first instance as a domain of activity that involves different communities,
organizations and initiatives. That would then allow us to frame "our
part" of the article as reflecting the concerns, practices and approaches
of research libraries and archives (etc.), while providing an
organizational structure to the article that would allow other communities
concerned with digital preservation to bring in their sometimes differing
contexts and approaches. Clearly there would be major overlaps in some of
these domains, but I would hesitate to frame this in a way that seemed to
indicate that domains and approaches we're all involved in are any longer
the only ones.

[A different approach to the same problem would be to frame the entire
(new) article as reflecting the issues and answers specifically of the
research library and archives community, naming something like: "Digital
Preservation (in libraries, archives and cultural memory institutions)". I
don't this is the right way to go, but it illustrates the point.] But I'm
certainly willing to be persuaded that we owe our community's efforts the
contextual "pride of place" in Wikipedia, if others think that a better
approach.

NB: In the current outline, most of the content that the Standards Group
has talked about documenting so far would fall into sections 5.4 and
5.5. Other parts of the article might actually fall into the domains of
other NDSA working groups, e.g., the Infrastructure and Innovation
WGs. Clearly rewriting and this article will be a bit of work, especially
given Wikipedia's standards for careful documentation of sources for
assertions and facts

/Stephen

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Stephen Paul Davis
Director, Libraries Digital Program
Columbia University Libraries
535 W. 114th Street, New York, NY 10027
email: [log in to unmask] phone: (212) 854-8584
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