Metadata for Digital Collections (How-to-Do-It Manual)
Pedagogy
With all the numbers of libraries, archives and museums creating digitized resources and online collections, it becomes harder and harder for those charged with organizing all of this data to keep everything in order and set by certain standards. This resource helps give those people a guide on good metadata design and creation practices. It helps readers by giving them a practical, hands-on volume with which to acquire the knowledge and skills needed; be the application be in a classroom or for a profession.
The book introduces systems such as CONTENTdm and rather than giving a general overview of metadata schemes, the author specifically covers three of these schemes; Dublin Core, MODS and VRA. Miller gives practical guidance on applying each of the Dublin Core elements, clarifying the terms that might lead to confusion as well as show practical examples that show common application issues and challenges in regards to general digital resource description.
In addition to this, the text offers a step-by-step guide on how to design and document a metadata scheme for local institutional needs and for more specific projects. It also gives an introduction to broader metadata topics such as XML encoding, mapping between different schemes, metadata interoperability and record sharing, OAI harvesting and the growing environment of Linked Data and the Semantic Web; explaining the use of these topics as well as uses for students and professionals alike.
Miller, Steven J.
Neal-Schuman Publishers
2011 May 31
Donahue, Marisa
Book
ISBN-13: 978-1555707460
The Ethics of Internet Research: A Rhetorical, Case-Based Process (Digital Formations)
Pedagogy
Utilizing interviews conducted with internet researchers across the world on their various topics of study and disciplines in a variety of online venues, this book brings up and questions ethical issues that internet researches could encounter throughout their research process. Though the book acknowledges that these internet research ethics are nothing if not complex, the purpose given to this book is to provide a rhetorical, case-based process to assist researches in ethical decision-making. By giving this assistance, the book lends itself to internet researchers' search of useful resources and heuristics for participating in ethical practices, interactions and problem solving within their particular research scope.
McKee, Heidi A. and Porter, James E.
Peter Lang Publishing Inc.
2009 August 29
Donahue, Marisa
Book
ISBN-13: 978-1433106606
Ethics and Truth in Archival Research
Collective Memory
With how difficult it can be to understand ethics and truth in regards to archival research, it can be almost impossible to find it in many educational research projects. As such, when it does appear, it can be unrecognized or entirely transparent.
The research conducted in this paper took place in the former Czechoslovakia and, considering the rocky political history of the nation, was heavily influenced in how Tesar was able to collect and access the data found.
This history helps the article show the productive capabilities of archival institutions as well as examine the ethical dilemma of uncovering certain types of tender information. Just like in any other situation, discovering sensitive information can lead to strong, sudden and sometimes unforeseen consequences; all results entirely dependent on how the researchers proceed once retaliated against. The author argues with his article that regardless of the complexity (or lack thereof) of truth and ethics, the archives themselves should be an ethically neutral research space and should not and does not need approval from research ethics committees to proceed or alter in their path for answers.
Tesar, Marek
History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society
2014 June 4
Donahue, Marisa
Journal Article
Personal Archiving Preserving Your Digital Memories
Personal Archives
More of a website of various resources in the field of digital archives, this Library of Congress page offers users an opportunity to browse a multitude of links in regards to archiving in a digital space; both how to create and preserve your own content as well as how to present it in a way that is organic, uniform and cohesive.
The page also gives users different materials to view (videos and text) in regards to its different methods and overviews. Below those is a resource of compiled blog posts from 'The Signal' in regards to personal digital archiving and specifically offers guidance on choosing things such as file formats and how to add useful descriptions to digital photos. They also offer a number of links to events held by the Library of Congress that helped further assist people in preserving personal digital records.
Library of Congress
Library of Congress
Donahue, Marisa
Website
Disorder: Vocabulary of Hoarding in Personal Digital Archiving Practices
Personal Archives
The image of the "digital hoarder," buried under the disorganized turmoil created by the volume of their digital possessions, has become an increasingly popular way for individuals to describe their everyday digital collecting habits. This article argues that such self-characterization offers valuable insights into the psychologies of personal archiving practices. It then considers how "digital hoarding," as a subculture of record-keeping, can inform our understanding of how and why digital personal archives are shaped and maintained. A deeper understanding of hoarding, and of record creators' digital personal information management practices, can benefit endeavors to educate the public about personal digital records management, by encouraging archivists to take into account the organic ways in which individual organizational practices have developed. In these ways, this article seeks to balance archival outreach efforts with what the digital public can teach the archival profession about itself.
Chen, Anna
Association of Canadian Archivists
2014
Vieira, Lisa
Journal Article
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
The Canadian Disease: The Ethics of Library, Archives, and Museum Convergence
Curation
The convergence of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) into monolithic organizations has been framed as a retreat from isolated, hierarchical institutions that are increasingly irrelevant in a networked age. The emerging prevalence of digital technology and mass digitization are also identified as primary motivators behind convergence. However, much of the literature on convergence is couched in business terminology that favors top-down management approaches and works to create nondemocratic structures with more power in fewer hands, with many of the pro-convergence arguments having little to no evidential support. This paper looks at LAM convergence from the perspective of working librarians, archivists, curators, and related staff and offers a reevaluation and critique of convergence practices in Canada and abroad.
Cannon, Braden
McFarland & Company
2013-09-01
Vieira, Lisa
Journal Article
Ethics and Truth in Archival Research
Collective Memory
The complexities of the ethics and truth in archival research are often unrecognized or invisible in educational research. The archival research for this paper took place in the former Czechoslovakia and its turbulent political history influenced the way data were accessed and collected. The article analyzes the productive power of archival institutions and their guardians, and examines the ethical dilemma of discovering sensitive information. Archival institutions hold the secrets that, once uncovered, can have powerful ramifications. It will be argued that the nature of truth in the archives is complex, and the author complicates and challenges the perception that archives are ethically neutral research spaces that do not need to consider approval from research ethics committees.
Tesar, Marek
Taylor & Francis Group
2015-01
Vieira, Lisa
Journal Article
Gone in a Flash? Personal Digital Archiving Workshop
Personal archives
"Gone In a Flash?" is the recording of a digital archiving workshop conducted at Columbia University in 2012. The workshop illuminates organization and preservation practices important for individuals, especially academics, who want to make sure their work, whether textual or multimedia, is accessible in the future. The presenters emphasize the importance of writing an explicit archival policy for oneself that includes a list of items that need to be saved, as well as when, where, and how to save them. Individual items should be documented as in a professional archive so that if items are found much later, the viewer can tell where they came from, how they were created, and any software that one may need to access them. <br /><br />Personal archives, like any professional archive, must be managed and maintained. One must cull them for unnecessary information, and establish a backup calendar so that three copies of the work are kept at all times and in different places. The workshop also delves into university resources, such as academic creative commons, that can help scholars by backing up the information on a fixed schedule and completing the metadata.
Columbia University
2012-10-02
Sara Raffel
Video recording
Education for Digitization: How Do We Prepare?
Archives
This paper examines the characteristics and variety of digitization training initiatives in North America and to a lesser extent, Europe, and the growing development of credit-bearing courses and programs within higher education relating to digitization, with a specific focus on librarianship. Information was collected in response to an inquiry posted in late July 2004 on the ARLIS, JESSE, and DIGLIB listservs, supplemented by ongoing perusal of these sources, Web searches, and suggestions from colleagues. It also briefly discusses the benefits and challenges associated with the development of digitized library resources, and the need for greater attention to professional development for those working in digitization.
Perry, Claudia A.
The Journal of Academic Librarianship
November 2005
Polk, Victoria
2015 Elsevier B.V.
Journal Article
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133305001138