As mentioned in the report description "email is an increasingly important part of the historical record, yet it is particularly difficult to preserve, putting future access to this vast resource at risk." The Future of Email Archives: A Report from the Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives delves into what makes archiving email complex and presents several potential solutions with sample workflows.
Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center conducted a large-scale canvassing of technology experts, scholars, corporate practitioners and government leaders. They were asked "will public discourse online become more or less shaped by bad actors, harassment, trolls, and an overall tone of griping, distrust, and disgust?"
A new OCLC report Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries contains findings from a needs assessement and gap analysis of public library digitization activities. The findings in this report will inform planning around participation in the National Digital Platform (NDP), and also includes recommendations by project partners that could strengthen the public library role in the NDP.
The report highlights activity in the academic and public queues, how Minnesota patrons were helped, when patrons came in to ask questions, and patron satisfaction with the service. The format of the report is much different than previous published reports.
For any institution that needs to preserve and provide access to electronic records for the long-term, the following report may be helpful as you develop local workflows and documentation for managing this type of content.
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