Featuring Monique Lassere, Digital
Archivist at Houghton Library, Harvard University, discussed born-digital preservation, a nascent but growing area of work in academic
and cultural heritage institutions. Specifically, Lassere interrogates how born-digital materials, and the surrogate materials that constitutes
born-digital objects, require a reframing of physicality to understand and
initiate proper methods for long-term stewardship. This includes strategies
such as information maintenance, file format migration, and emulation.