We Could, but Should We? Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to GeoCities and Other Historical Digital Collections

被引:9
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作者
Lin, Jimmy [1 ]
Milligan, Ian [2 ]
Oard, Douglas W. [3 ,4 ]
Ruest, Nick [5 ]
Shilton, Katie [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Waterloo, David R Cheriton Sch Comp Sci, Waterloo, ON, Canada
[2] Univ Waterloo, Dept Hist, Waterloo, ON, Canada
[3] Univ Maryland, Coll Informat Studies, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[4] Univ Maryland, UMIACS, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[5] York Univ Lib, Toronto, ON, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国安德鲁·梅隆基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1145/3343413.3377980
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
We live in an era in which the ways that we can make sense of our past are evolving as more artifacts from that past become digital. At the same time, the responsibilities of traditional gatekeepers who have negotiated the ethics of historical data collection and use, such as librarians and archivists, are increasingly being sidelined by the system builders who decide whether and how to provide access to historical digital collections, often without sufficient reflection on the ethical issues at hand. It is our aim to better prepare system builders to grapple with these issues. This paper focuses discussions around one such digital collection from the dawn of the web, asking what sorts of analyses can and should be conducted on archival copies of the GeoCities web hosting platform that dates to 1994.
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页码:135 / 144
页数:10
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