Comments on: Participating in Digital Archiving seminar

By: Digitaalinen kirjasto » Digiaika talteen - mitä, miten, miksi?

Digitaalinen kirjasto » Digiaika talteen - mitä, miten, miksi? — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:05:22 +0000

[...] myös Frans Mäyrän merkintä, http://www.unet.fi/fransblog/2008/05/16/participating-in-digital-archiving-seminar/ This entry was written by Esa-Pekka Keskitalo and posted on 20.5.2008 at 15:09 and filed under [...]

By: frans

frans — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:24:36 +0000

I also did miss some of the concluding remarks (the working groups had many, good ideas and suggestions). The key outcome was the recommendation of having annual seminars to follow the evolution of national digital archive, and to build joint efforts between the archivists, researchers and research & infrastructure funding bodies. Extending the scope of archived areas into dynamic contents (games, internet discussion areas) as well as to archive minor television contents (Youtube etc.) as well as the biggest television and radio channels was also a good suggestion. And thanks Jaakko for interesting presentation on Internet history research. It was pity that there was so little time in the programme.

By: jaakko

jaakko — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:09:31 +0000

How was the ending discussion, which I missed?

By: frans

frans — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:01:32 +0000

This initiative has also its funny aspects. E.g. it is not possible to access the archived copies of National Library from University of Tampere, where I work (you need to go to Helsinki or Jyväskylä for that, I do not know why). It is much easier to use http://www.archive.org/ to look into the history of Finnish Internet. Also, the system for recording copies of all Finnish digital television feeds is great, but again, e.g. http://areena.yle.fi/ is much easier to use for accessing the programs from our national broadcasting corporation channels. The national archive will collect everything sent from the top 10 most popular television channels, plus metadata, including information such as watcher figures (courtesy of Finnpanel). So, promising, but there are also still many remaining questions.