2017-11-20: Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 Trip Report
At the Internet Archive, it was rainy in San Francisco, but that did not deter those of us attending Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 . We engaged in discussions about a very important topic: the preservation of online news content. An attendee listens to a presentation at the @RJI Dodging the Memory Hole conference in San Francisco. #DTMH2017 pic.twitter.com/2ajM1k06Ru — RJI Futures Lab (@RJIFuturesLab) November 16, 2017 Keynote: Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian for the Internet Archive "Let's become a library. Let's be useful to society to understand ourselves." ― @brewster_kahle #DTMH2017 pic.twitter.com/rg7hMqWBdI — JDNA (@RJIJDNA) November 15, 2017 Brewster Kahle is well known in digital preservation and especially web archiving circles. He founded the Internet Archive in May 1996 . The WS-DL and LANL's Prototyping Team collaborate heavily with those from the Internet Archive, so hearing his talk was quite inspirational. ...