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Seminario MAVIRDoug Oard: Nobody Writes Letters Anymore: Helping people make sense of historically significant email collectionsmiércoles 10 de junio 2009 a las 12h00
Lugar de celebraciónSalón de Grados (planta baja)ETSI Industriales c/ Juan del Rosal, 1228040 Madrid Emisión en directo por streaming
ResumenThe archivist’s dilemma is that in a world with vastly more information being created, less of what we should keep may reach the archive in forms that we know how to manage. Much of present archival practice rests on four key facts: important records have generally been written on paper, paper records are (reasonably) persistent, paper records require some level of manual description, and the costs of description and preservation necessitate appraisal and selection. We are, however, moving toward a world in which records that are never committed to paper may prove to be ephemeral, digital objects can be (at least to some Many projects are now working on reliably getting important digital records into the future, so in this talk I’ll
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Sobre el ponenteDouglas Oard is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, with joint appointments in the College of Information Studies and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and his research interests center around the use of emerging technologies to support information seeking by end users. Dr. Oard’s recent work has focused on interactive techniques for cross-language information retrieval and techniques for search and sense-making in conversational media. Additional information is available at Oard's homepage.
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