Wednesday, September 10, 2014; 11:42:37 AM Eastern
Knight library challenge
- The Knight Foundation just posted a new challenge. This time they're looking for ideas about what libraries can do to help their community. Here's what I wrote.
- #### Future-safe communities
- Libraries should maintain the digital archive for their community.
- Anything written on the web, by a member of their community, or about their community, should be part of the archive.
- The question it should answer is this: What happened in this community in this period of time?
- I've written a lot about this, under the heading of "future-safe archives." It's a real problem for the web. We are not creating anything like a permanent record.
- This is probably the first piece.