Virtual Preservation of Contemporary Architectural Heritage in Developing Countries in Absence of Protection: Digital Reconstruction, Recording, and Archiving before Complete Disappearance
Digital Humanities
This journal covers the topic of Malaysia, and how it is an area in the world where digital preservation is not that strong, which makes any historical heritage that can be found is at risk of being lost. As such, the journal covers cases where they go to Malaysia and gain digital version of information regarding historical buildings in Malaysia, such as the A&W PJ contemporary restaurant and the structure of another building's design. There are a lot of historical elements within the Malaysian area that showcase a lot of the culture of the people, as well as giving a better idea of how the people lived, showcased in the architectural structures of the buildings that may not be seen used elsewhere. As such, it is seen as a wise decision to digitally document this information so that it may be found again in the future, preventing any of it from being lost or destroyed overtime. Methods of preserving these kinds of data required for the researches to go to these locations in person, taking close looks at the layout of the buildings, taking pictures of the ways that they were structured and built, then coming back to create 3D models of the buildings as away to preserve their image.
Esmaeili, Human. Woods, Peter Charles. Thwaites, Harold
2015
Gonzalez, Sean
Journal
9781467397216
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
Ethics in Archives: How Special Collections Protects Your Privacy
Archives
This online journal is informing towards understanding ethics in archives. The journal goes into the importance and process that archivists go through to respecting data in already existing collections. Privacy plays a grand part in ethics especially since it is the focus of maintaining collections private information. Without this sort of etiquette in archives there would be accessed data that would not be protected which allows for threats to cross over and cause problems. Yet the journal goes into demonstrating that each institution has different interpretations of ethics in their collections. Jessica Serrao presents this information through this known process in special collections through her own experience. The process is a constant reminder of what it takes to maintain and protect security data in collections. It is explained thoroughly by explaining the importance of each document that is viewed as containing valuable information. It is important for documents to go through this process so they can be removed or kept in the collections. The journal also summarizes The Richardson Papers Case where a professor’s files contained valuable students’ private information that were at risk of exposure.
Privacy is a crucial topic that is constantly ignored in Ethics. Ethics does not limit the privacy of historical or present records, which should be concerning since it allows personal information in collections to be accessed.
Jessica L. Serrao
Online Journal
2017-07-07
Janet Jaimes
How to Secure Copyright: The Law of Literary Property
Copyright
The author of this book goes over some of the history of copyright and some of the current existing laws. He explains that under the current laws of the U.S., securing a copyright doesn't require publication, registration, or any other action in the U.S. Copyright Office. Instead, copyright protection is secured automatically upon the creation of a work. Copyright protection is available to original works of authorship, such as musical works, sound recordings, photographs, literary works, movies, television, and software. The owner of a copyright has certain exclusive rights, such as selling the work, performing the work publicly, reproducing the work, and creating derivative works. The copyright owner can also transfer ownership of the work, whether by complete transfer or by granting a license. He explains information about how to secure a copyright and the advantages of registration with the Copyright Office. He also gives advice on the legal aspect of how to do this properly and offers where to get help in doing this.
Richard Wincor
Oceana Publications
January 1957
Book
ASIN: B007T3N06C
"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
#MeToo in Sweden: Museum Collections, Digital Archiving and Hashtag Visuality
Digital Humanities
Uimonen discusses the Nordic Museum in Stockholm’s #MeToo collection and the public submissions to the collection. It also “analyses the museum’s rationale for collecting what is considered to be difficult cultural heritage.” Unlike most archives, it does not contain images. The article proposes a new visuality in digital archiving: “hashtag visuality.” The article claims it is visual representation of social media. The author argues that the amount this visuality for the hashtag occurs in Sweden is a statement regarding sexism and violence in a country that is believed to be feminist. The author states hashtag visuality has made an impact on how this topic is discussed and acted upon and that it has become a movement.
I think this journal’s discussion of hashtags impact on archiving and movements is important to consider for archiving purposes. It not only directly mentions archiving, but also how these hashtags start movements that need archiving work to be done. I liked how it considered a new form of visuality and how that impacts community archiving. I believe this article is different than other data in the archive and considers how social media is shaping human experience and movements. I think this is unique because older archiving would never consider how hashtags can influence the field.
Uimonen, Paula
Informa UK Limited
2019-07-17
Alexis Cosio
Online Journal
ISSN 0014-1844
A few too many? Some considerations on the digitisation of historical photographic archives
Archives
Baylis counters the idea that there are too many digitized historic photographs for public use by stating that there is too little information contextualizing these photographs. Using the Larcom Albums of 19th century Irish prison photographs housed in the New York Public Library’s photographic archive, Baylis reconstructs the original context of the photographs from each album, pointing out the differences in content, photographic style, technique, and description. She also recounts the history of the collection and the shift in meaning and context from when original owner, Larcom first organized and classified the prisoner photographs into an album to when albums transferred to a writer and eventually to the New York Public Library. Each album, while featuring prisoners from the same Irish prison within a similar time period, was unique in its categorization of criminal as opposed to political prisoners. However, because this information was recorded in a manuscript located elsewhere, the superficial visual similarities obscured the significant differences between the two albums. Since digitization of these photographs, they continue to be recreated in meaningful contexts far different from their origins. Genealogists interested in Irish ancestry are the predominant users of this collection, assembling individual photographs and records as an “assemblage” devoid of any “temporal anchoring.” Baylis notes that one of the results of digitization is the tendency to rely on photographs for surface meaning and visual reference, rather than recognize them as trace elements of a past, containing their own rich history and layers of meaning.
Baylis, Gail
MIT
2009-04-17
Polk, Victoria
Conference Proceeding
A Free Digital Library
Archives
In a lecture at e.g. 2007 librarian Brewster Kahle introduced his radical idea to create a free, open access digital library with the aim of “bring[ing] all of the works of knowledge to as many people as want to read it.” He uses the Amazon.com website as a model for how he would like to organize, and provide access to the multimedia library he proposes. Kahle notes that digitization is the greatest challenge, arguing that a 10 cent per scanned page cost is miniscule compared to the demand and need for information to be digitized. Brewster continues by explaining how they have begun to seek out, and store audio and video by reaching out to artists, and individuals who are interested in storing and sharing their work for free. He discusses two of his projects “The Internet Archive,” and the “Wayback Machine” which respectively archive the web, and store previous images of websites at various points in time.
Kahle, Brewster
2007
Foley, Christopher
Video
A Newspaper/Periodical Digitization Project in Mongolia: Creating a Digital Archive of Rare Mongolian Publications
Curation
This journal article describes a two-year digitization endeavor implemented to digitally publicize and preserve limited amounts of endangered Mongolian newspapers and periodicals into a collection by the Press Institute of Mongolia, expanding its accessibility through the Internet. These scarce samples of newspapers document all manner of records ranging from economic to political alterations within Mongolian society after the fall of communism in the 1990s. The digitization process for newspaper items poses a great number of challenges primary because of the complexity of page layout, a print of poor quality, and a sizeable format. The archive utilized Greenstone for its creation, an open-source digital library software program set, which offers multilingual support in the development and preservation of such rare Mongolian publications. Supported by a grant from the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, the project focused on overcoming the challenge of properly preserving these records, while at the same time trying to build an effective search function that would work in the Mongolian language and display characters in the Cyrillic alphabet. This article explains the background of the project, its goals of providing access for the public and preservation to these long-lost materials, its decision process in digital imaging and the assemblage of the collection itself.
Matusiak, Krystyna K. and Munkhmandakh, Myagmar
The Serials Librarian, Taylor & Francis Online
2009-07-09
Taveras, Sabrina
Journal Article
ISSN: 0361-526X (Print) 1541-1095 (Online)
A PIM Perspective: Leveraging Personal Information Management Research in the Archiving of Personal Digital Records
Personal Archives
This paper specifically examines personal digital record-keeping strategies, appraisal decisions, and identifications of value, as well as digital preservation practices from the perspective of Personal Information Management (PIM) studies. Through explorations of how people create, collect, organize, maintain, and (re)access digital information, PIM research complements our existing knowledge about personal digital records and reveals additional information about these materials heretofore undisclosed by archival scholarship. This paper suggests that a genuine understanding of the processes of records mediation in personal digital archives is integral to the discovery and exploitation of their requisite provenancial information.
Bass, Jordan
Association of Canadian Archivists
2013
Vieira, Lisa
Journal Article