Ephemera

Ephemera are materials created for short-term purposes—tickets, posters, pamphlets, memes, status updates—that collectors and archives later treat as historical evidence. Digital ephemera (stories, disappearing messages, temporary landing pages) intensify appraisal questions for Born-digital archives.

See also

• Cultural memory
• Web archiving
• Forever stamp

Sources

• Ephemera Society and archival collecting literature.
• Digital-ephemera workshop papers.