1. Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery Network
CASE STUDY:
Iowa City Flood
Archive
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2. Flood of 2008 Video produced by campus (5 min.) TAKEAWAYS:
Provides context
Shows nice sampling of images from the Flood Archive
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December 14, 2009

3. Timeline: Flood, Archiving
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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
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4. 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
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5. 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.
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6. 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
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7. 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
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Dig. Lib. Services
TAKEAWAY: See genesis of flood
archive early developments
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8. PHOTO COLLECTION University News Services 4,000 images at present
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9. ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION StoryCorps Interviews 24 oral histories at present
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10. WEB ARCHIVE COLLECTION Archive-It approx. 2 dozen seeds at present
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11. UNIVERSITY RECORDS COLLECTION Risk Management Photos over 10,000 photos at present
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12. 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
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13. 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, …
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