How We Do Born-Digital (music from Love Me, I’m a Liberal [lyrics, video])
I’ve seen the OAIS model
I read OCLC reports
White papers from Digital POWRR
And the Blue Ribbon Task Force
To make sure I don’t ever lose them
They’re printed and filed in drawers
That’s how we, how we, how we, do born-digital
I Jumped In with the Manuscripts Section
I counted those disks and CDs
I reminisced about my old Zip drive
I marveled at 5 inch floppies
For now they’ll just stay in their boxes
A time capsule of the nineties
That’s how we, how we, how we, do born-digital
I spent my lunch watching a webinar
On digital preservation
I once calculated a checksum
And someday I’ll do it again
But I can’t even think about starting
Without a forensics workstation
That’s how we, how we, how we, do born-digital
Once our archives were just paper
After you process, you’re through
No worries about obsolescence
Migration? That’s something birds do!
This digital stuff’s for young people
We’ll bring in an intern or two
That’s how we, how we, how we, do born-digital
Tags: born digital, digital preservation, songs
September 12, 2015 at 1:22 am |
Thanks, Rebecca for your imagination. I had fun singing it at ARANZ2015!!
May 25, 2018 at 2:25 pm |
I can’t believe I never saw this the first time around. Amazing.
January 3, 2020 at 12:18 pm |
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