Current students are being encouraged to build robust digital identities through personal websites, Omeka collections, and digital portfolios. However, as hosting costs rise and platforms go obsolete, what is the ethical obligation regarding the 'longevity' of student work? (For Reference: Levels of Digital Preservation)
For Discussion:
Are students being set up for a 'digital dark age' where their undergraduate scholarship vanishes three years after graduation? Does your library offer a 'lite' version of institutional repository (IR) archiving for exceptional student digital projects, or is that a scale-model nightmare?"
