An Efficient Approach based on Polygon Approximation to Query Spatial Data on Digital Archiving System
Archives
This research paper shows mathematical formulas that show the potential of a method known as "polygon approximation" that will allow for the digital query of digital archival systems to be improved upon to better their use. This methods improvements on the digital archiving system depends on what the focus is, because there will be drawbacks: if the polygon approximation improves the spatial query, then the precision of searches may be decreased. If the search precision is improved upon, then there wouldn't be as much spatial query. Through the use of diagrams and formulas, the source shows the reasons why the polygonal shape can help improve the way that we use digital archives, aiding in the search for methods to allow archives to be permanent and secure. How this method works all relies on the amount of sides that the polygon has in the formula, to where the more sides that the polygon has then the more efficient the spatial query would be, whereas the less sides that the polygon has results in the efficiency in the search precision. The decision made to best put this method to use would be to change the shape of the polygon according to the usage of the users, reflecting what would benefit them more in the moment.
Su, Wei-Tsung. Wei, Hsiang-Yu. Yeh Jian-Hua. Chen, Wei-Cheng.
2017
Gonzalez, Sean
Journal
9781509048977
A Vision of the Role and Future of Web Archives
Web archiving
The history of the web and the record of its impact on society may never fully be realized if measures to record and preserve its content are not carefully and consistently maintained. Leetaru identifies the inconsistencies in web archiving by public institutions, such as the Library of Congress, and commercial enterprises, such as the New York Times. He explains current trends for limiting the size of the “crawl” (ingesting web content into the archive) and the web site’s rate of change may not promote discovery of patterns and insights for future scholars and historians. Leetaru proposes web archiving institutions solicit the users and data miners for selecting and presenting the web archive’s content and developing the protocol for ingesting web artefacts.
In addition to increasing the collaboration of a broad web archiving community, Leetaru suggests web archives should also increase the visibility of its holdings and provide sufficient contextual information for the different versions and replacements of web content. Like Wikipedia’s chronology of updates and editions for each page of content, Leetaru believes a web archive should reveal the source code as well as origins of its content. In response to copyright restrictions and rights to privacy, he recommends “snapshots” and limiting algorithms to “surface-level analyses.” By opening access to the intellectual content of the web artefacts and simultaneously adhering to both property and technical standards, preservation of the web archive and the potential for future research can be assured.
Leetaru, Kalev
University of Illinois
2012
Polk, Victoria
Document
http://netpreserve.org/sites/default/files/resources/VisionRoles.pdf
Archiving websites: a practical guide for information management professionals
Web archiving
Drawing on the author's experience of managing the National Archives' web archiving programme together with lessons learned from other international initiatives, this book offers a comprehensive overview of current best practice, together with practical guidance on establishing a web archiving programme.
Brown, Adrian
Facet Publishing
2006
Branch, Justin
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals 2009-2015.
Book
ISBN: 9781856045537
Archiving Websites: General Considerations and Strategies
Web Archiving
The book Archiving Websites: General Considerations and Strategies by Niels Brügger is mainly for researchers, students, and others without special technical knowledge who wish to save a website for further study. This is for those who wish to start archiving to better preserve their research or studies without needing to have the technical skill some types of archiving require. It talks about what kind of archiving can be done on a standard computer and how to best utilize what you have on hand. The contents are also discussed from the standpoint that Internet research must be able to stabilise and save the object of its analysis.
Brügger, Niels
2005
Jordan Lunsford
Book
Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in the Digital Age
Archives
In this text Clough uses the example of the Smithsonian museum to ask and then answer the question, "How can we prepare ourselves to reach the generation of digital natives who bring a huge appetite-and aptitude-for the digital world?" His text discusses how the digital archiving of 2D materials for the Library of Congress and the National Archives have certainly paved the way for future digital archiving but how there are greater challenges for the museum and places attempting to put 3D objects into 2D Internet access. He explores how the impact of the digital world affects libraries and museums, specifically the Smithsonian. Clough emphasizes and attempts to provide answers for the difficulties of creating a digital world, such as making 3D objects 2D for online access and interaction.
Clough, Wayne G.
Smithsonian Books
2013
Polk, Victoria
E-Book
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Both-Worlds-Libraries-Archives-ebook/dp/B00EVT2XG0/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430924416&sr=1-2&keywords=digital+archive
Beyond the Encyclopedia: Collective Memories in
Wikipedia
Collective memory
Michela Ferron and Paolo Massa employ a quantitative study of Wikipedia as a digital archive in order to show how one can view memory as an active process. The authors begin with a discussion of Web 2.0 as public, private, and modifiable, but unable to be completely erased. They further assert that backups of the Internet, particularly in the case of Wikipedia, allowed them to conduct longitudinal studies about data. Ferron and Massa used an XML file to show the revision history of all pages of the English Wikipedia on September 16, 2010, arguing that a revision spike occurs near the anniversary of a traumatic event. They found that pages relating the September 11, 2001 attacks received an average of 10, 701 edits per day during the anniversary, and only 4,619 edits per day otherwise. Ferron and Massa compared this data to Wikipedia pages for non-traumatic events, like Woodstock and Apollo 11, which did not receive as much attention.
Ferron, Michela
Massa, Paolo
2013
Sara Raffel
Journal
Building Companionship Between Community and Personal Archiving: Strengthening Personal Digital Archiving Support in Community-Based Mobile Digitization Projects
Personal Archives
In this article, the author presents the connection between personal digital archiving and community-based archiving and how they should work to assist one another. The author suggests that community-based projects can help provide flexibility and sustainability. Han uses an assessment of two community archive projects as an example to how they can support personal digital archive projects while maintaining long-term preservation and avoiding breaking their laid out objectives. The author proposes three ways community-based projects can help personal digital archives because Han believes collaboration between these groups is mutually beneficial and good for the community.
I believe this journal is an excellent addition to the archive because, beyond being recently published, it also presents ideas on how two aspects of archiving can connect and help one another. I think this is also important to consider in other ways archiving can cross over. The author’s connection between personal digital archiving and community-based archiving not only makes sense, but should be obvious. Encouraging community members to share their stories for their platform to be promoted by the community archive seems like an obvious idea. Han even includes how minorities who have been left out of archives can be considered and included in the future through their own archives.
Han, Ruohua
De Gruyter Saur
2019-03-25
Alexis Cosio
Online Journal
ISSN 2195-2965
Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-To-Do-It Manuals for Libraries)
Curation
Now considered to be a standard guide, this newer edition of the 'How-to-do-it' Librarian manual has been updated to include more pertinent information. Now including crucial information on digital records, encoded arcival description (EAD), copyright issues, post-9/11 security concerns and international perspectives on tuse issues, it is all but a requirement for archivists of all backgrounds to have this book. Offering help in setting up an archive, appraisal and accessioning of records, acquisition strategies and policies, arrangement descriptions, reference and access, preservation and electronic records are some of many topics gone over. For archivists of all levels of experience and curiosity, having these topics covered in theory as well as in practice can do nothing but help their own works.
Hunter, Gregory S.
Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.
2003 January 1
Donahue, Marisa
Book
ISBN-13: 978-1555704674
Digital Archives: Management, Access and Use
Archives
Digital Archives looks over the rapid technological changes and the push to digitize people's cultural heritages are changing the landscape of archives. The book also features contributions that offer state of the art solutions in building and maintaining digital archives.
Dobevra, Milena and Ivacs, Gabriella.
Facet Publishing
2016
Van Dresar, Megan
Book
ISBN: 9781856049344
Digital Ephemera and the Calculus of Importance
Web Archiving
In this blogpost, Dan Cohen, executive director of the Digital Public Library of America, argues that square root sampling, a mathematically developed method for crime prevention, can help archivists make acquisition decisions, especially when large amounts of ephemera are to be archived. Cohen contends that ephemera are important collections of primary sources for practicing historians. Yet he acknowledges that the amount of available ephemera is overwhelming. The Calculus of Importance can help determine which ephemera to keep. The Calculus of Importance, according to mathematician William Press, is the ideal way to determine who should be screened for criminal activity. Cohen exemplifies the method, which is essentially a weighted form of random sampling, and maintains that it does not only apply to crime prevention, but in several other fields, archiving among them. Cohen asserts that using the calculus of importance on digital ephemera and other records that exist in large quantities is advantageous because we cannot anticipate who or what will be deemed important by future historians.
Cohen, Dan
05-17-2010
Laura Moeller
Blog article