A stub for collecting notes about archiving data projects.
As Niels Brügger comments:
[...] "unlike other well-known media, the Internet does not simply exist in a form suited to being archived, but rather is first formed as an object of study in the archiving, and it is formed differently depending on who does the archiving, when, and for what purpose” (Brügger, 2005).
What should be taken into account in relation to archiving data projects?
Which kinds of data projects? This could include civic tech, open data, data journalism and many others.
Which aspects of data projects? Apart from datasets there are also interactive graphics and features, app and mobile libraries, visualisation components, external mapping and API services, and many other things.
There are many different strategies for digital archiving which capture different aspects of projects in different ways, for different purposes - from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and national/thematic web archiving projects, to initiatives such as webrecorder.io.
There have been a number of discussions and initiatives around archiving data journalism projects. Here are a few links to some of them.
- Boss K, Broussard M, Paul N, et al. (2018) "Archiving Data Journalism" session at Investigative Reporters and Editors, 2018 CAR Conference, Chicago, 8 March 2018. Available at: https://www.ire.org/events-and-training/event/3189/3576/ (accessed 29 August 2018).
- Jones B (2018) Archiving data journalism. Notes from the sessions I attended at NICAR 2018 in Chicago. Available at: https://github.com/brentajones/nicar18-notes
- Keith B (2018) NICAR 2018 notes: Archiving data journalism. In: Ben Keith. Available at: http://benlk.com/2018/04/06/news-archiving-commandments/
- Boss K and Broussard M (2017) Challenges of archiving and preserving born-digital news applications. IFLA Journal 43(2): 150–157. https://doi.org/10.1177/0340035216686355
- Broussard M (2014) Future-Proofing News Apps. MediaShift, 23 April. Available at: http://mediashift.org/2014/04/future-proofing-news-apps/
- Broussard M (2015) Preserving news apps present huge challenges. Newspaper Research Journal 36(3): 299–313. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532915600742
- Broussard M (2015) The Irony of Writing About Digital Preservation. The Atlantic, 20 November. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/the-irony-of-writing-about-digital-preservation/416184/
- Fisher T (2014) Preserving interactive news projects with Newseum, OpenNews and Pop Up Archive. In: Northwestern University Knight Lab. Available at: https://knightlab.northwestern.edu/2014/03/18/preserving-interactive-news-projects-with-newseum-opennews-and-pop-up-archive/
- Fisher T and Klein S (2018) Conceptual Model for News Applications. GitHub. ProPublica. Available at: https://github.com/propublica/newsappmodel
- Klein S (2011) Scott Klein: news apps don’t just tell a story, they tell your story - WAN-IFRA. In: WAN IFRA - World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. Available at: http://www.wan-ifra.org/articles/2011/08/24/scott-klein-news-apps-dont-just-tell-a-story-they-tell-your-story