Digital Scholarship Specialist Heather Froehlich presented at the Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory Conference in London, April 2-4, hosted by the University of London School of Advanced Study and the Senate House Library.

Froehlich's paper, “Against Cultural Heritage Wastelands,” discusses the challenges of four common digital scholarship platforms – Omeka, StoryMaps, Scalar, and GitHub – for web archiving, discoverability, and medium to long term storage and maintenance. She is in the process of preparing her paper for submission to a journal since it was so well received. 

The conference was designed to bring researchers together on the intersection of digital preservation, digital collections, repositories, archivists, historians, scholars of internet culture, etc. Researchers studying born-digital culture come from a wide range of disciplines and this conference aims to bring them together to share best practice, explore common challenges and discuss the evolving research landscape. "The organizers are talking about doing this conference again in a couple years," Froehlich said, "there was a lot of interest simply because it was a group of people who never talk to each other. So, for example, the Internet Archive was there, and so was a scholar who studies internet history via ‘Know Your Meme.'"

See complete conference program.

View conference recordings.

Nice job, Heather!