Funded by Maison de Sciences de l’Homme de Lorraine
Project description: What is the future of existing digital archives? Are there sufficient reasons to believe that in a century one still will be able to retrieve useful information from today’s digital archives? Even in such a case, how can it be ensured that the archived data have not been modified (voluntary or non-voluntary) during this span of time? It is not quite obvious that today’s information technologies provide easy answers to these and similar questions about the possible future of digital archives. Moreover, any answer to these questions would not simply rely on technological aspects but also social aspects related to the rapidly changing social practices of using digital technologies in the education, research and everyday life. The proposed project aims at bringing together researchers in various disciplines including Computer Science, Social Sciences, and Historical Epistemology for discussing and given some preliminary answers to such questions.
Here is an extended description. Here the MSH Lorraine mentions its generous support of this project.
And THIS is the link to project’s page in French. VIDEOS (password protected)
Research Team:
Enka Blanchard, LAMIH – UMR CNRS 8201
Hala Khassiba, Henri Poincaré Archives
Baptiste Mélès, Henri Poincaré Archives
Mélusine Rocher, Henri Poincaré Archives
Andrei Rodin, Henri Poincaré Archives (PI)
Olivier Rouchon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, la Direction des Donnés Ouvertes de la Recherche (CNRS-DDOR)
Laurent Rollet, Henri Poincaré Archives
Pierre Willaime, Henri Poincaré Archives (PI)
Public activities for 2023: Four workshops during the year. The passed workshops were as follows:
Workshop 1: April 13, 2023: Launching of the Project and 6 talks on the general theme of the Project
Workshop 2: Ontological and Epistemological Aspects of Textual Sources and Resources (July 11, 2023); (programme on site Hypothèse)(programme in pdf)(slides Rodin,)( slides Mélès )(video)
Workshop 3: Exposé de Quentin Lobbé sur “La continuité et la persistance des archives web” (October 6, 2023)(abstract)(slides)
Workshop 4: 15 Décember 2023: The endurability of written and electronic texts: a comparative analysis. (programme and abstracts)(slides Soloviev)(paper Soloviev)(video Soloviev)(slides Robert)
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NEW! STARTUP Project Digital Time Capsule (French)
Links:
UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage (October 15, 2003)
Recommandation de la commission européenne sur la numérisation et accessibilité en ligne du matériel culturel et la conservation numérique (24 août 2006)
International Time Capsule Society
FranceArchives Préserver les données numériques Permaliens Archivages numériques
Archive Trust for Research in Mathematical Sciences and Philosophy (Michael Wright)
Internet Archive WayBackMachine
Eupalia.com (private company specialised in the future-proof computing)