The Missing Bit

Foredragsholderen er professor Michael Seadle, som dels er Institutleder for Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft ved Humboldt Universität - IVAs særligt nære iSchool-partner, og dels er dekan for det humanistiske fakultet sammesteds. En af de helt tunge i den tyske biblioteksverden. Hans ophold er en markering af at vores internationaliseringsstrategi og iSchool-medlemskab begynder at sætte sig mere direkte og konkrete spor i IVAs dagligdag.

A lecture by Michael Seadle
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

This lecture considers a problem in digital libraries and digital archiving from the viewpoint of a critical but often forgotten participant: a single bit. The personality of a bit depends on its location. The consequences when it goes missing depend partly on technical implications, partly on human judgments about meaning. The reasons for it to be missing depend on environment, engineering, and also human choice. Among the issues that will be discussed is whether we as librarians set higher standards for integrity and authenticity in the digital world than in the legacy world of analog objects.