SJ:
Responding to your email below:
Yes, culture...and more as implied in the Charter language.
So yes: knowledge, tools, installation art, performance, governance et al.
And yes, stewardship across timescale...and yes, there is implied a
normative and advisory role...

From the practice index page at
http://www.drcurryassociates.net/digitalstewardship
"We see digital stewardship as assuring that cultural heritage (in
all in forms) and knowledge assets are effectively preserved and accessible
in original contexts, while managing those assets toward appropriate,
sustainable digital environments.

"We believe responsible digital stewardship also involves creatively
leveraging those assets to help achieve institutional vision, to
enhance learning, enable scholarly investigation and empower artistic
expression. We also believe that creative leverage can stimulate
higher levels of contribution at societal and civilizational levels."

Obviously, continuing refinement indicated...

Thanks for your response...

David Curry


-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Klein [mailto:meta.sj@...]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:57 PM
To: David R. Curry
Cc: archivists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [archivists] blog launch: 'digital stewardship now'

Stewardship of what?
culture? [implying capturing and honoring things currently nowhere
preserved] knowledge? [implying capturing and distilling ideas and
knowledge from noise] art? tools?
all human output?
superimposed on some of these:
views of the past? projections of the future?
a progression of news of the present, captured at each point in history?

Stewardship over what timeframe? "now" is a helpful conceit, but only
reflects a beginning, not a timescale for maturation or a timescale for
winding up / moving on to the next.

There is a strong normative and advisory role implied by Stewardship, beyond
providing repository services and researching ways to capture/index/archive
new types of things.

SJ


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:54 PM, David R. Curry
<david.r.curry@...> wrote:
>
> digital stewardship now <http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com>
> will regularly post about milestones, issues, challenges and solutions
> emerging across the global digital stewardship landscape. We will
> endeavor to frame activity across disciplines and geographies, and
> provide visualizations of this rapidly evolving field to improve
> coherence and understanding.
>
> We take as our perspective the following language:
>
> UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage Article 9 –
> Preserving cultural heritage
> - The digital heritage is inherently unlimited by time, geography,
> culture or format. It is culture specific, but potentially accessible
> to every person in the world. Minorities may speak to majorities, the
> individual to a global audience.
> - The digital heritage of all regions, countries and communities
> should be preserved and made accessible, so as to assure over time
> representation of all peoples, nations, cultures and languages.
>
> We do not suggest this is (or can be) exhaustive in any sense, but
> hope it makes an increasingly useful contribution to awareness and
> thinking, and, ideally, helps inform action.
>
> Your comments are very welcome. If you have topics, issues, milestones
> or other ideas that warrant coverage, please let me know.
>
> David R. Curry
>
> Managing Principal
>
> davidrcurryAssociates
>
> david.r.curry@...
>
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>