http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/uci_libs_rorty_designing/rss Recent eScholarship items from Designing the Digital-Born Archive Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:10:20 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8wf5w4nk <p>Light spoke generally about the major issues facing archivists who manage born digital records and how the UCI Libraries responded when providing access to the Richard Rorty papers. She discussed the challenges, such as dealing with rapid technological change, ensure present and future accessibility of legacy files, managing privacy and copyrights, guaranteeing the authenticity and integrity of files, preventing loss and destruction, and selecting the most important material for preservation. She also discussed numerous decisions archivists make that impact the future archive, such as emulation or preservation of the original computing environment, the organization of files, the migration of materials to new formats, and human or machine-generated description of the materials. She concluded with a description of the UCI Libraries' Digital Scholarship Service, which endeavors to help faculty manage their digital research for future generations.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8wf5w4nk Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Light, Michelle