What is a Digital Archive?
Channel: The IRIS Center at SIUe
Date: 03/04/2018

An archive, quite simply, is a collection of documents or records, assembled and curated in order to provide lasting information about a place, a time, a person, an object or set of objects, a movement, a community. Digital archives in particular have proliferated in recent years because of a concurrent rise of "born digital" data and also the need to digitally preserve analog/paper materials. In this talk, Dr. Kristine Hildebrandt provides a general coverage of digital archive initiatives and standards in multiple fields and disciplines. She discuses debates surrounding archives, including issues of ownership and of access and usability, and will include examples of the archives built in the IRIS Center.