Tomorrow, June 3rd, at 2:00 PM EST, I'll be giving a talk about digital curation and archiving as part of EMC's Innovation Lecture Series. You're invited.
The goal of my talk is to cover research directions within EMC when it comes to XAM technology and digital curation. I briefly covered the agenda in my last post, and gave an example of a cool historical document that has already been scanned into the archive: President Kennedy's 1962 speech at Rice University regarding the United States space program.
I've received another document from the archivists at the museum that also has great historical significance. Below is a scanned portion of the speech given by President Kennedy just one month after the speech given at Rice:
This speech was given to the American public from the White House as part of what is now known as the Cuban missile crisis.
What's interesting about this speech is that the original document from the White House does NOT use the term "Cuban Missile Crisis". This label was applied after the speech. Indeed, the three countries involved (the US, Russia, and Cuba) all gave the crisis a different name. If this document is simply scanned into an archive it will not be found by a search unless a human somehow attaches metadata to the image.
The "somehow" of attaching metadata to an image is a big part of my talk tomorrow.
In addition we're hoping that Stuart Madnick from MIT will be available to participate as part of the session. Professor Madnick and MIT are proposing an industry-wide collaboration to solve the problem of uniting distributed, heterogeneous, scientific digital archives. This effort is known as the DataSpace initiative.
Please join us, registration is open to all and can be found here.
Steve
Twitter: @SteveTodd
