{"id":38411,"date":"2011-03-13T20:12:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T20:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/born-digital-die-young\/"},"modified":"2011-03-13T20:12:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T20:12:31","slug":"born-digital-die-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/born-digital-die-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Born Digital? Die Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/cen\/newscripts\/86\/8649newscripts.html'>Born Digital? Die Young<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>\u201cOur cultural heritage is being set down in digital forms as the primary, first record,\u201d says McDonough, an LIS assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rather than being born on stone, paper, film, or some other substratum known to last for millennia, centuries, or at least many decades, today\u2019s digital records amount to 1s and 0s stored on physical media that don\u2019t last long and are written in a hodgepodge of file formats running on various computing platforms that are even more ephemeral. \u201cThere are moments when I feel like Wile E. Coyote who doesn\u2019t realize he ran off of a cliff and is running in midair,\u201d says Jim Kuhn, head of collection information services at the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, D.C. What computer today comes with a 3\u00bd-inch floppy drive, let alone the 5\u00bc- and 8-inch drives from late in the past millennium? Even with some universal means of reading data on any medium, future access to the file formats that make data usable is not guaranteed. \u201cIf we can\u2019t keep that stuff alive, we will lose a large part of our artistic and cultural record,\u201d McDonough says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born Digital? Die Young \u201cOur cultural heritage is being set down in digital forms as the primary, first record,\u201d says McDonough, an LIS assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rather than being born on stone, paper, film, or some other substratum known to last for millennia, centuries, or at least many decades, today\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1886,780,781,1539],"class_list":{"0":"post-38411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-link","5":"hentry","6":"tag-bruces","7":"tag-edp","8":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","10":"post_format-post-format-link"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Zx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}