Clay Shirky on Partnership Building
Shearing Layers (from Stewart Brand’s “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built”)
- Buildings have layers, each of which change at different rates (fast change on inside, slow change on outside)
- Applies to NDIIPP – nested shearing layers from fastest to slowest
- Media shelf lives are short – fast change
- Format
- OS
- Architecture
- Essence of content (we want this to stay as still as possible, given the rapid change of internal layers)
- Preservation involved managing shearing layers (What if the Constitution was written in 1980’s?)
- Book, for example, has few shearing layers (short of physical preservation and literacy)
Potential problem with this model: separates archival “thing” from its context of use. Assumes that the thing in itself is useful (or, perhaps more accurately, “usable”) in and of itself…in the context of the book, this is literacy, but problems of use and access are bound up with both the artifactual and the epistemic
Theses
- Longer the time frame, more shearing layers
- More layers, more kinds of expertise are involved
- Longer the time frame, the more social the problem
- Digital Preservation Network must syndicate expertise
Example: Syndicated storage
- Separate out storage function from other aspects of preservation
- Share distributed storage, not content or access
- Heterogeneous storage schemes safer (one fails, others might now)
- Data checking
Example: Shared Tools
- Deals with “Understanding, Interpreting, Caring For” level
- File Validators, File Walkers, Risk Assessment
Questions for partners
- Where are your areas of expertise?
- Where aren’t your areas of expertise?
- Access, Operations, Storage?
- Ingest, Export?
- IP? Security?
- Workflow? Contracts?
- Bilateral? Multilateral?
- High Trust? Low Trust?
Technorati Tags: NDIIPP 2006
March 6th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
If you’re familiar with Clay Shirky and Everything2.com (Wikipedia’s older idiot-savant brother), and have any interest at all in Internet Communities — or tribes, or families, or whatever you want to call them — you should really check out his A Group Is Its Worst Enemy, which has become required reading for the editorial staff at E2. You’ve probably already read it! But I wanted to return the favor since I’m already 75% through Consider the Lobster.
It is most excellent, although I had to skip the Dostoevsky bit, because I’ve read — but didn’t particularly enjoy — Dostoevsky, and didn’t think reading about him would be much more productive.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:59 pm
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