"Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach."
Digital humanities
Gail Hodge asserts that the rapid dissemination of digital “objects” occurred with “little regard for the long-term preservation of digital information.” Given the nature of the digital world, her analysis is as relevant in 2015 as it was in 2000. In an environment where file deletion, corruption, or accessibility is a constant concern, Hodge provides a step-by-step process that outlines some best practices to avoid some of the pitfalls digital practitioners face. She argues that rapid technological advances require users to incorporate appropriate standards during the creative process. Without a systematic approach, preservation becomes problematic.
To address that issue, this study surveyed a variety of institutions including libraries, research institutions, and database publishers to gather information on what best practices had helped them confront these challenges. Hodge breaks the process down into six categories: creation, acquisition, metadata, storage, preservation, and access. In each aspect of the digital life-cycle, she gives practical advice on things such as determining what and what not to archive, copyright issues, hardware and software concerns, and migration issues. In regard to preservation, Hodge asserts that one of the most important aspects is to maintain the “look and feel” of the archive, despite what technological changes occur.
Hodge, Gail M.
D-Lib Magazine
2000
Robert Clarke
Journal Article
After Image: Writing in the Age of Photography, Film and Digital Media
Archives
Integrates and explains the role of writing, film, and photography in the digital world.
Gironda, Belle C.
Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities And Social Sciences
1999
McLean, Sarah
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All This Stuff: Archiving the Artist
Archives
"Introduced by Clive Phillpot, and including artists and writers such as Gustav Metzger, Bruce McLean, Barbara Steveni, John Latham, Barry Flanagan, Edward Burra, Penelope Curtis, and Neal White, All This Stuff breaks new ground in the field of archive theory. It documents the innovative ways in which the arts are challenging the distinctions, processes, and crossovers between artworks and archives. This critical reexamination exemplifies how the field of art archiving is changing theory and practice as well as our understanding of what an archive is, or could be. Valuable insights are given into the archival process and the book also explores how archives can be made accessible and the unpredictable ways in which they may be explored and reinterpreted in the future.
Vaknin, Judy (Editor)
Stuckey, Karyn (Editor)
Lane, Victoria (Editor)
Libri Publishing
May 1, 2013
Webb, Kimberly
Book/ E-book
ISBN-13: 978-1907471766
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
Archives and the Digital Library
Digital humanities
Since technology and innovative ideas for what composes the digital library are constantly advancing, case studies must be routinely conducted to continue to be kept up to date. This book is comprised of studies that are most current to 2007. It includes research conveyed by respected experts in library and information science that provides a window into the theory, technological advances, and unique approaches information management for the digital world. The book focuses particularly on the advances in the world of archives and the digitization of the texts and objects archivists work with. The book includes a case study of LSTA-grant funded California Local History Digital Resources Project; expanding traditional archival digitations projects beyond the single institution; a case study of the California Cultures Project; top ten themes in usability issues; case studies of focus groups, interviews, ethnographic studies, usability studies, and web log analysis; creating a mutual partnership with the digital library; technical trials in harvesting and then managing Web archives; metadata approaches to provide technical, descriptive, and preservation related information pertaining to archived Web sites. There are many more topics discussed in this book useful for archivists, librarians, library administrators, archival educators, students, and library information educators.
Landis, William E. (Ed)
Chandler, Robin L. (Ed)
Routledge
2007
Polk, Victoria
The Hawthorne Press Inc.
Book
ISBN-13: 978-0789034380
ISBN-10: 0789034387
Archives, Libraries, Collections, and Databases: A First Look at Digital Literary Studies in Mexico
Digital Humanities
This article documents the professional and intellectual developments in the field of Digital Humanities and Digital Literary Studies in Mexico. It begins by surveying the evolution of scholarship production regarding digital archives, the media impact on the significance of archives, the accessibility of archives, and complexities in the preservation of archives. The article proceeds to explore the intersection of digital archives in Mexico with the origin and fortification of the Digital Humanities in the United States, highlighting the manner in which these junctions have promoted the establishment of appropriate methods and vocabularies to use in the examination of digitized and born-digital materials and productions. It concludes by examining various Mexican digital projects recently developed, proposing the uniqueness of Mexican literary scholarship on the digital humanities, emphasizing its decolonial perspectives, community building, and creative educational endeavors. Ortega denotes the exponential growth of Digital Humanities in Mexico, particularly under the disciplines of information sciences, communications, and philosophy. Digital literary projects and textual academia hold some major representation in Mexico as well, coming in numerous forms depending on objectives, the collections and subjects they deal with, and the institutional support that accompanies them. Among the projects that stand out the most in the Mexican practice of the digital humanities, Ortega underlines, one must recognize the archival developments of projects such as the libraries of the UNAM.
Ortega, Élika
Hispanic Review, University of Pennsylvania Press
2018
Taveras, Sabrina
Journal Article
ISSN: 1553-0639
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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Asking Questions and Building a
Research Agenda for Digital Scholarship
Digital humanities
One of the major issues facing humanities scholars is access to data for reuse or repurposing. Data used in the humanities encompasses the broad and diverse humanities disciplines. The types of research conducted in a digital environment are based on each discipline's history and methods of practice. Friedlander, however, believes there is sufficient common ground among the individual disciplines that a shared infrastructure of tools, services, and collections would be cost and energy efficient, as well as producing fresh insights and opportunities for greater collaboration. She describes the technical tools and applications for accessing data, and identifies critical questions for researchers regarding the scale of their projects and networks of communication. Friedlander persuasively argues that the size or type of institution is not as important as the shared values and standard protocols among the collaborating groups.
Friedlander, Amy
Council on Library and Information Resources
March 2009
Polk, Victoria
CLIR
Report
http://www.clir.org/pubs/resources/promoting-digital-scholarship-ii-clir-neh/index.html/friedlander.pdf
Building Digital Archives, Descriptions, and Displays: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Archivists and Librarians
Web archiving
Author and archivist Frederick Stielow reviews fundamental principles and practices of archiving and outlines the technical steps and intellectual rationale for adding metadata, developing encoding schemas, and designing the web interface. Of particular interest to builders and managers of digital archives are the guidelines for preparing collections for deep and surface web searching. Encoding finding aids according to technological and professional standards may ensure long-term preservation but may or may not represent culturally appropriate or fully accessible content for a larger public. A thorough understanding of the content's cultural as well as technical properties should inform the vocabulary, encoding, description, and representation of the digitized artifacts.
Stielow, Frederick
Neal Schuman Publishers
2003
Polk, Victoria
Book
ISBN-13: 978-1555704636
ISBN-10: 1555704638
Clio Wired: The Future of the past in the Digital Age
Digital humanities
Roy Rosenzweig contends that the past is not dead. His book, Clio Wired, is a collection of essays focusing on the digital media and how it could keep the past alive. Simplistically, it is broken into three sections: rethinking, practicing, and surveying. The first section, Rethinking History in New Media, focuses on preservation and the use of the internet and digital tools for scholarship. Rosenberg considers what should be preserved and who is responsible for this preservation. In addition, he explores the authority of digital knowledge, new research methods for digital media, and amateur historians from professional historians in a digital realm. Practicing History in New Media: Teaching, Researching, Presenting, Collecting, which is the second section in the book, encompasses how to practice history in the field of digital media. The essays within this section range from teaching methods in the classroom, how to collect history online, using hypertext in scholarly journals, and the open access of scholarly research. The final section in the book, Surveying History in New Media, discusses the future of digital media. His focus is on the advantages of digitization, and he believes in the near future the most important bodies of knowledge will be online, such as in archives.
Rosenzweig, Roy
Columbia University P
2011
Polk, Victoria
Columbia University Press
Book
ISBN-13: 978-0231150859