Once again, The Signal features an excellent interview highlighting the work of digital preservationists.
This time, Trevor Owens talks with Alison Langmead and Brian Beaton, who are co-teaching a course on digital preservation at the University of Pittsburgh. Their innovative approach to structuring the course is described as “Media Archaeology meets Historical Epistemology”:
[W]e wanted to situate digital preservation problems as outcomes and effects of choices, activities, and interactions over time that involved a tremendous range of human and non-human actors…
The syllabus for the course is also available [pdf].
