Archiving
Archives
“Archiving” by Digital Writing and Research Lab is a family-friendly podcast episode released and published March 18th, 2014. In this episode of the archive the host, Megan Eatman, speaks to members of the Digital Writing and Research Lab’s Digital Archiving group alongside co-chair Rappaport’s Center’s Human Rights Archive Working Group. They discuss their various approaches and struggles when it comes to the world of digital archiving. The episode typically focuses on the challenges of having to build an entire digital archiving website from scratch and their struggles with making sure they are gathering the necessary different forms of media that are seen as necessary for creating an authentic and efficient digital archiving platform. This episode of this podcast is a great addition to the archiving website because you hear first hand experiences of experts in the field of archiving go into details on the struggles they face that are typical struggles that most of us will most likely have to deal with in the realm of digital archiving. Not only do they speak about their own personal experiences, they give advice to others through a variety of given questions submitted by listeners who plan on being involved.
Digital Writing and Research Lab
2014-03-18
Clara Pulido, Jacquelyn Curtin, Truc Duong
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Libraries Face the Challenge of Archiving Digital Material
Curation
“Libraries Face the Challenge of Archiving Digital Material” by IEEE Computer Society is a podcast about how libraries are facing the problems that are presented by the modern day digital material. This podcast is used to introduce the ongoing problems of preserving printed and digital materials that libraries face. It goes into how digital material owned by libraries is being converted or transitioning printed materials into digital copies and how to preserve those copies from degradation. Libraries have faced the problem of preservation of printed materials before. Now, libraries are facing the challenge of preserving digital materials. Digital materials in terms of videos, recordings, artwork and more. The libraries now have to look into preserving enormous information. The differences between written/printed material that are preserved by libraries and the digital copies that are preserved by servers. The difficulties lay in how materials are preserved and how to categories the information. This would be a good addition to the archive by way of Digital Humanities. It is the history of how libraries are dealing with the ongoing problem of preserving materials, both in printed form and digital form. It shows how libraries are facing these problems and the solution in terms of preservation of information.
IEEE Computer Society
2010-07-09
Clara Pulido, Jacquelyn Curtin, Truc Duong
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The Beckman Report on Database Research
Digital Humanities
The article presents information on an October 2013 meeting on the state of the field of database research which took place at the Beckman Center on the University of California-Irvine campus. Topics covered at the meeting included big data, scalability in big/fast data infrastructures, cloud computing, and data management. The role of human beings in the data life cycle was also discussed.
Abdai, Daniel; Agrawal, Rakesh;Ailamaki, Anastasia; Balazinska, Magdalena;Bernstein, Phillip A.; Carey, Michael J.; Chaudhuri, Surajit; Dean, Jeffrey; Doan, Anhai; Franklin, Michael J.; Gehrke, Johannes; Haas, Laura M.; Halevy, Alon Y.; Hellerstein, Joseph M.; Ioannidis, Yannis E.; Jagadish, H. V.; Kossmann, Donald; Madden, Samuel; Mehrotra, Sharad; Milo, Tova
Communications of the ACM
2016-02
Allen, Amber
Journal Article
Open Access and the Digital Humanities
Digital humanities
Acord defines the digital humanities as humanities interested in expanding their research using digital tools. Rather than being prescriptive, she discusses individual examples. She mentions open access peer-reviewed journals as a more traditional example, mentioning that they are often very visual and incorporate multimedia. She also talks about enhanced publications, which include live footnotes. She then asks how scholars can share less formal work, like notes, book reviews, and academic conversations. She discusses how digital tools allow us to look at a published work alongside its notes, other editions, etc. This “blurs the lines” between what makes a scholarly text and what does not. Digital tools also allow researchers to “see” places rather than just read about them, leading to new discoveries. Blogs allow researchers to share ideas, as well as form new communities. She discusses providing students with open access textbooks. She says that there may be reasons for scholars not to share their research, but having the tools to share it is no longer a valid excuse. She asks how scholars can get credit for sharing with digital tools, particularly for tenure needs, and if these are tools or scholarship themselves.
Acord, Sophia Kryz
UF Libraries
2011
Polk, Victoria
UF Library
Video Recording
http://www.ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00007555/00009
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Digital Humanities
ADHO supports digital research and teaching across all subjects, and is a community based advisory committee.
ADHO
Webb, Kmberly
ADHO
Website
The Humanities Student as Digital Archivist: Pedagogical Opportunities in the Our Americas Archive Partnership
Digital humanities
Rice University’s “Our America’s Archive Partnership,” (OAAP), is an aggregation of diverse resources chronicling the history and culture of the Americas. In this article, Rice University professor, Melissa Bailar, discusses the scholarly and technical benefits that students and faculty receive as participants in this digital archiving project. She attributes enhanced technical skills, teaching, and the abilities to critique and conduct scholarly research to the hands-on experience of digitizing texts and developing the archive’s structure. Undergraduate and graduate students work alongside librarians, humanities scholars, and computer programmers, thereby fostering an interdisciplinary and collaborative atmosphere. This environment also supports the diverse content and contributions made by the sponsoring institutions including the University of Maryland, the Instituto Mora, and Rice University. Sensitivity to cultural differences and provenance of a particular collection is incorporated, for example, in the search fields, visual representation, and interface designed for that collection. In addition to fostering shared knowledge across disciplines, the OAAP maximizes an individual’s potential for expertise and scholarly recognition. By adopting the “craftwork” model, participants conduct both the transcription and encoding of texts and therefore, become more perceptive of context and historical and cultural nuance. Allowing individual researchers to gain a holistic perspective and accumulating knowledge facilitates enhanced scholarship. Bailar observes that the participating students and scholars are “shaping future research resources” as a result of both collaboration and individual research.
Bailar, Melissa
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
2100-04-01
Polk, Victoria
New Jersey City University
Online article
Early Americas Digital Archive
Digital Humanities
The Early Americas Digital Archive by Ralph Bauer is a collection of works that provides access to various forms of literature such as: poems, prose, histories, diaries, journals, and letters written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. This archive was made as an attempt to help preserve the literature from English and Spanish text in the Early Americas and to allow others to read and analyze the pieces years after their creation. These works are from the Early Americas digital archive (EADS) database and the Gateway to early American authors on the web are available for others to access.
Bauer, Ralph
2003
Jordan Lunsford
Book
Understanding Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities
In his introduction to Understanding Digital Humanities, David Berry traces the history of digital humanities—an evolving method and theory of interpreting the effects of digitization and computation on society and culture, while simultaneously adopting and inventing computational processes for guiding its nascent discipline. Notable scholars and pathfinders in the field were selected to write the essays featured in this book, which illuminate fundamental and often controversial issues of the digital humanities,. These issues include the relationship between computation and literacy, aesthetics, gender studies, and the invention and application of data mining tools for interpreting vast quantities of cultural data.
Of particular interest to the digital archivist is the Jussi Parikka’s essay, “Archives in Media Theory: Material Media Archaeology and Digital Humanities.” Parikka believes the archive offers a basis for theory and theoretical backing for digital humanities work, especially studies that focus on calculating effects and representing patterns. The non-narrative, non-discursive, and database logic of the archive presents a digital space, a metaphor, and a method for ingesting and interpreting the vast amount of information transmitted daily through digital media. By breaking down the study of digital media and culture into a study of the digital object’s materiality, its purposes, its historical and cultural context, and its representation and preservation, the archive as method becomes apparent—an apt metaphor Berry uses to describe the Internet’s resources, the “new infinite archive.”
Digital archivists will also find the final chapter, “Transdisciplinarity and Digital Humanities: Lessons Learned from Developing Text-Mining Tools for Textual Analysis” by Yu-Wei Lin, useful for promoting collaborative efforts between software engineers and humanists, and for extending the reach of archives into scholarly research and knowledge creation.
Berry, David M.
Palgrave MacMillan
2012
Polk, Victoria
Book
Print ISBN: 9780230292642
ISBN-10: 0230292658
Digital Archives: Democratizing the Doing of History
Pedagogy
This article discusses the fact that prior to the digital revolution, only scholars could study primary sources. K-12 students and teachers were relegated to the little they could get to locally because they did not have the money needed to experience primary historical sources themselves. These limitations kept many students and teachers from getting excited about research. Digital archives, however, allow anyone access to primary sources in a nonlinear environment. Because of this, archivists should strive to create digital archives from a large variety of voices. In this way, the history classroom should be radically changed to foster historical inquiry and personal connections to historical content. The article discusses a study of pre-service teachers who engaged with digital archives. They found them useful for their future classrooms, especially since they often represented the marginalized groups not represented in the textbook.
Bolick, Cheryl Mason
International Journal of Social Education
2006
Polk, Victoria
Journal Article
http://eric.ed.gov/PDFS/EJ782136.pdf.
Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, Second Edition
Pedagogy
This second edition of Jay David Bolter's classic text expands on the objectives of the original volume, illustrating the relationship of print to new media and examining how hypertext and other forms of electronic writing refashion or "remediate" the forms and genres of print. Reflecting the dynamic changes in electronic technology since the first edition, this revision incorporates the Web and other current standards of electronic writing. As a text for students in composition, new technologies, information studies and related areas, this volume provides a unique examination of the computer as a technology for reading and writing.
Bolter, Jay David
Taylor & Francis Group
2001
Mulligan, Paige
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, retrieval system, or any other means, without prior written permission of the publisher.
Book
ISBN: 978-0-8058-2919-8