Brewster Kahle
Founder & Digital Librarian
Internet Archive
Peter Kaufman
Senior Program Officer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Rowntree
Digital Preservation Librarian
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The panel will discuss safeguarding the world’s most important audiovisual data, featuring perspectives from David Rowntree, former archivist of the International Criminal Court in the Hague who tried to organize the Yugoslavia and Rwanda war crimes interviews; Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, which has been creating a collection of the January 6th insurrection and other material the government is now deleting; and Peter B. Kaufman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open Learning (whose video work is now supported by the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web).