I am contemplating a project where I store images from Instagram as a sort-of user-generated archival collection for our university library. I plan to fork the code of the My #HuntLibrary app from NCSU to accomplish this.
This makes me wonder how future users will think about these items as they relate to Instagram, an app which may not exist even a decade from now. How do I represent what Instagram is/was in an archival collection? The photos will speak for themselves in many respects, but the user experience will not be the same.
I wonder if you could talk about this and other related issues, such as CD-ROM emulation, computer game archiving, preservation of software...
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I am contemplating a project where I store images from Instagram as a sort-of user-generated archival collection for our university library. I plan to fork the code of the My #HuntLibrary app from NCSU to accomplish this.
This makes me wonder how future users will think about these items as they relate to Instagram, an app which may not exist even a decade from now. How do I represent what Instagram is/was in an archival collection? The photos will speak for themselves in many respects, but the user experience will not be the same.
I wonder if you could talk about this and other related issues, such as CD-ROM emulation, computer game archiving, preservation of software...
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