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7 May 2007
What do you think about blog preservation?
Posted by Paul Miller at May 7, 2007 09:22 PM
Jon Udell has been mentioning blog preservation quite a bit recently, and raises some interesting points about the way in which the thoughts of active bloggers are increasingly to be found expressed within their blog rather than anywhere else. I know that I, for one, write far fewer papers than I used to, and that many of those thoughts now permeate a catalogue of blog posts spanning several years and (at least!) four blogs.
I also raised a related concern, years ago, in discussion around e-Science and e-Research. I worried at the time that the traditional scholarly paper, previously the goal of a piece of work, was increasingly becoming sidelined. The research itself was far more fluid and collaborative, and a plethora of techniques were increasingly employed to engage with peers throughout, rather than simply expecting them to read the final paper. At the time, I suggested that the structures we were building to push forward e-Research were backing the wrong horse, and that an obsession with various digital repositories was misguided at best unless it grappled with the living, distributed and collaborative nature of modern research, rather than the stultified dead end of ink on the paper of the final report. I still kind of believe that...
As such, I was interested to receive an invitation to participate in some research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and have no hesitation in passing on their recommended advertising blurb.
This is an important area as we move forward; have your say...
“Do you blog? If yes, then please consider participating in an online survey from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. The study, Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation, is being conducted under the guidance of the Real Paul Jones <http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/wordpress/> . The study team is interested in hearing from all bloggers on their perceptions on digital preservation in relation to their own blogging activities, as well as the blogosphere in general. To hear more about this survey, please visit the study's fact sheet at http://www.ils.unc.edu/~hcarolyn/blogsurvey/ . From there, you can link out to the web-based survey. The survey will be available through May 23, 2007. We believe blogs are valuable records of the human experience. Help to contribute to continued access to these important records by participating in our study. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Carolyn Hank, the study Principle Investigator, at hcarolyn@email.unc.edu. Thanks!”
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