1. Digitization and the Infinite Archive (History 9808A) 22 September 2014

2. Today’s Agenda  Blog Reviews  Blog Leaders  Digitization Issues  Infinite Archive

3. Interesting Issues…  Blog Leaders  Tamar on Photographs  Dominik on preservation, accessibility and enhancement  Emily V. – what are valuable records?  Lauren – original vs digital

4. Other Issues  What to archive?  Depth and scope?  Topic and event  The Role of Crawlers  How important is it to preserve structure?  Metadata (Dublin Core)  Using the web to collect history  Sources?

5. Web Resources Activity  Pair up and pick one of the web resources for this week:  Internet Archives  Wayback Machine  Library of Congress Web Archives  Httrack  Archive-It  Voyeur Tools (aka Voyant)  Fire Insurance Plans at the UWO Map Library  DPLA  Review for 20-25 mins  Present your findings on:  What it is? (app, archive, etc.)  How it might help make digital history  Interesting/unique features

6. For next week  Blog or comment on leaders’ blogs in response to today, or on others’ regarding other issues  Blog leaders blog by Sunday (for next week’s topics)  This week’s new leaders are: the “four Nicks”