When individuals attempt to withdraw their materials from public archives, the goal of preserving the public record comes into conflict with the expectation of “the right to be forgotten.” This panel considers robots.txt, donor forms, and removal requests as negotiated encounters among people, institutions, and the law.
Nicola Bingham [Travel cancellation]
Lead Curator, Web Archiving, British Library
Itza A. Carbajal [Travel cancellation]
Latin American Metadata Librarian; LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Special Collection at UT-Austin
Joyce Gabiola (moderator)
PhD student, Information Studies, UCLA
Dorothy Howard
PhD student, Dept of Communication, UC San Diego
Katrina Windon
Accessioning and Processing Archivist, University of Arkansas