Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery Network CASE STUDY: Iowa City Flood Archive Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
Flood of 2008 Video produced by campus (5 min.) TAKEAWAYS: Provides context Shows nice sampling of images from the Flood Archive Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
Timeline: Flood, Archiving Timeline on next 3 slides TAKEAWAYS Even though we had enough advanced warning to prepare, the situation actually developed and deteriorated so quickly that most serious preparation and evacuation work happened in about 24 hours June 2008 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
Timeline: Flood, Archiving June 9 - MONDAY Campus-wide sandbagging call June 10 - TUESDAY Library basement: Get stuff off the floor, “just in case” June 11 - WEDNESDAY Art and Music evacuated; library staff move into Main Library June 2008 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
Timeline: Flood, Archiving June 12 - THURSDAY 7:21am: Twelve buildings told to move important materials to higher ground 8:39am: Clear the bottom shelf; no plans to evacuate building 3:18pm: Prepare for possibility of clearing move shelves; not on list to evacuate building 6:06pm: Evacuate by end of Sat. June 2008 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
Timeline: Flood, Archiving June 13 - FRIDAY Evacuate by end of Fri. Steam tunnels breached Evacuate by end of the day Book brigades Sandbaggers Move servers Stow 150 computers Prepare to operate in another building indefinitely June 2008 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
Timeline: Flood, Archiving Week of June 16 Campus closed Essential personnel only June 16 Begin planning flood archive June 17 Begin to pursue StoryCorps June 20 FEMA/insurance photos June 2008 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Dig. Lib. Services TAKEAWAY: See genesis of flood archive early developments Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
PHOTO COLLECTION University News Services 4,000 images at present Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION StoryCorps Interviews 24 oral histories at present Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
WEB ARCHIVE COLLECTION Archive-It approx. 2 dozen seeds at present Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
UNIVERSITY RECORDS COLLECTION Risk Management Photos over 10,000 photos at present Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
Challenges Scoping – how do we scope collection reasonably UI, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Midwest?? News media – can we collect? distribute? contribute? Intellectual property issues, robots exclusions Private data – what to do about this? Legal discovery, student confidentiality Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
Challenges Individual content not in archives: Personal photos, stories, Flickr, etc. Analysis of event more valuable than archived source material during crisis: Lessons learned, reports, publications Scientific Research spawned from crisis has best chance of helping to prevent future crises: Hydraulics, Urban & Regional Planning, … Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009
Paul Soderdahl December 14, 2009