The Future of Documentary Heritage
In a world where everyone is a content producer, information is overabundant, and formats varied documentary memory institutions are being challenged like never before. Simply put, there is simply too much content for a single institution to address alone.
How does the national institution responsible for Canada’s documentary heritage and government records respond to such pressures?
With a full scale modernization of its core business.
This session explores some of the modernization initiatives underway at Library and Archives Canada, including a new acquisitions model focused on the whole of society; supplementing traditional approaches with targeted web harvesting; and deploying a virtual stakeholder engagement destination (the Agora).
