1. Dr. Amelia Acker @amelia_acker
Digital Preservation in Mobile Networks some emerging trends and forecasts
Dr. Amelia Acker
@amelia_acker

2. Research questions
As we move from an information society to a networked era, how will collections transform?
How do mobile phones and next generation networks change the ways we read, write, create memory and the cultural record?
How will preservation infrastructures that support mobile computing unfold in the near future?
How do iSchools teach digital preservation and curation now? How and what should we teach in 3-5 years?

3. Mobile records are born networked
Next generation wireless networks (3G, 4G, LTE, and soon 5G) support how we create, access, transmit data through the internet

4. Earlier work: SMS, social media, participatory sensing
Text messaging and the Short Message Service standardization
Personal digital archives and social media platforms
Platform perspective for digital preservation
Participatory app development for community data campaigns
Mobile computing cultures
Networked transactions, mobile receipts
Technology-in-the-making

5. Data Cultures Collections of Data Information professionals
Preservation institutions
Consider the distance between emerging data cultures and their collections

6. Data structures in mobile platforms
Social media platforms involve a high level of short messaging, media creation and upload
Smartphone operating systems push cloud storage for content creation and privilege internal storage for apps
Apps engage in a regime of constant software updates (and sometimes update resistance) and content lock-in
The atomic level of the system is no longer the file format
Traditional ideas about local storage are disappearing
Apps are being shuttered and sunsetted at rates that are hard to track

7. On sustainability and the future of apps

8. thanks
@amelia_acker