No voice unheard: Making digital archives inclusive with Valerie Love from the National Library of New Zealand

We produce a LOT of data, tweet for any reason, post a gazillion pictures online, and that somehow will give an idea to future generations about who we are and where we are at culturally speaking. Of course, and thankfully, not every digital content is archived, it has to have cultural or historical significance. But how do you determine that? Who should decide which stories get to be archived or unarchived? Are colonial dynamics taken into consideration when archiving contemporary records and what measures are being taken for archives to be inclusive? To answer these questions and more, I had the pleasure to welcome Valerie Love, Senior Digital Archivist at the Alexander Turnbull Library, which holds the archives and special collections for the National Library of New Zealand.

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