With the new archive from David Foster Wallace, the Ransom Center now has 40 collections with born-digital material, including Norman Mailer’s. Gabriela Redwine, an archivist at Ransom, is impressed by Emory’s digital emulation, but said the center was not pursuing that kind of reproduction at the moment.
“Our focus is preservation and storage now,” she said. “Over the last couple of years, we’ve been learning about computer forensics.”
The center is trying to raise endowment money to hire a digital collections coordinator while Redwine works on preservation and processing. In the meantime, most of the digital material is off limits to researchers.
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