Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Submissions/Preserving our Digital Heritage
This is an Open submission for WikidataCon 2017 that has not yet been reviewed by the members of the Program Committee.
- Submission no. 46
- Title of the submission
- Preserving our Digital Heritage
- Author(s) of the submission
- User:Jsamwrites
- E-mail address
- Special:EmailUser/Jsamwrites
- Country of origin
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Type of session
- Talk or Workshop or Lightning talk
- Length of session
- 30mins-1hr
- Ideal number of attendees
- >10
- Abstract
Somehow, the word 'heritage' stirs up the images of physical artifacts like historical buildings, forts, sculptures, paintings, coins etc. in our minds. However, efforts are now being made in international levels to also preserve our digital heritage. Last several decades have seen the shift from physical to digital equivalents in several aspects of our lives. Nevertheless, the software world is rapidly evolving. Solutions of today or yesteryears may no longer be in active development or maintained tomorrow. The file formats, information standards and protocols, programming languages, algorithms, software applications are in constant evolution.
Historical anecdotes, books and even ruins help us to get a rare and valuable picture of the history of human progress and evolution. But what about the history of digital evolution. It is now time to focus our attention to document and preserve our digital heritage before it is too late. The first web page has been successfully found and preserved.
Wikidata has several computing projects that documents how to describe many of our digital artifacts like softwares, algorithms, programming languages etc. This (lightning) talk first presents how Wikidata can be used to understand the history of our digital evolution. Then it will focus on how the global Wikidata community can contribute it further. It will also present an overview of the current available information and efforts on Wikidata.
- What will attendees take away from this session?
- Understand importance of preserving our digital heritage
- Understand existing Wikidata projects
- Slides or further information
- Special requests
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