The Kairos Preservation Project

In this article we introduce the Kairos Preservation Project, a case study in which the preservation of early Kairos articles provided a means for teaching and learning scholarly hypertext production. Drawing on work in rhetoric and composition and the digital humanities, we offer the concept of a preservation pedagogy-a collaborative model for introducing new authors to digital scholarly production via the preservation of 1990s-era scholarly hypertexts. We provide three implications of a preservation pedagogy: 1) That digital preservation work has value as a pedagogical tool within rhetoric and composition, 2) That a preservation pedagogy offers an inclusive approach to producing sustainable and accessible digital scholarship, and 3) That a preservation pedagogy might offer a model for the labor and reward structures required for digital preservation efforts in the field.