PIDapalooza-2018-Abrams-Post-custodial.pptx (6.73 MB)
PIDapalooza-2018-Abrams-Post-custodial.pptx
Content-addressable identification of scholarly resources enables new,
post-custodial methods for achieving sustainable persistence of the
scholarly record. Instead of continued reliance on traditional notions
of centralized custodial management, post-custodial stewardship focuses
on applying meaningful curatorial services to resources wherever they
most naturally reside. In essence, it replaces the constraining
necessity to *hold* content locally with an open-ended ability to
*reference* it freely and actionably. This requires a robust
infrastructure for global identification of scholarly assets through
massively-distributed content-addressable solutions like IPFS or Dat.