It's really common for librarians and archivists to gesture at the explosion of digital data, but I feel like it's always framed as an issue of storage and management, never as an issue of appraisal. Yes, there's orders of magnitude more data, but how much of that is data of enduring value?
(Or maybe this is just a blindspot of mine in the literature?)
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Looking at this again and realizing that I didn't necessarily say what I wanted to.
It's practically a cliché in LIS discourse to say that "in the last ten years humanity recorded more information than in all prior years combined" (or whatever the actual numbers are). Now, it is a useful cliché, since it helps us justify our existence as information professionals.
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But so much of that is things like system logs and records of user behavior, right? Records of how long user X watched Instagram Reel Y, that sort of thing. How much of that data will anyone want to save for the long term?
Or is all of that just dwarfed by digital photos and AV?
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