Digital Curation: Learning and Legacy in Later Life
Pedagogy
The world population is ageing. In the UK alone, it is projected that by 2035 those aged 65 and over will account for 23 per cent of the total population whilst the number of people aged 85 and over will account for 5 per cent of the total population. At the same time, the digital transformations of the last few decades are leaving behind many older adults who, for reasons ranging from accessibility issues to work biographies to personal preference, are less likely to engage with digital technologies. Research undertaken in this area to date has largely been policy led and concerned with providing hardware access and basic skills
Manchester, Helen
SAGE Publications
2016
Johnson, Richard
Web
DIY: Creating a Digital Archive
Personal archives
During the research phase of History Detectives investigations, we rely on one tool more than any other: the digital image. We email them to experts, we enlarge them for details, and we use them to avoid handling originals any more than we must. Digital images are also used by the hundreds to illustrate the stories we tell. (Next time you watch an episode, count how many archival photos fly across the screen.) Over the course of eight seasons we’ve compiled a hulking digital archive. It’s invaluable to us, and it can be equally useful to anybody with a collection of old family photos.
The History Detectives Team
PBS
2010
Johnson, Richard
Web
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
Archives and Recordkeeping: Theory Into Practice
Pedagogy
Caroline Brown’s text Archives and Recordkeeping is made to understand the importance of archives and the roles it holds in society by presenting detailed explanations and presentations. Archives are the preservation of past, present and future materials. Recordkeeping is what keeps archives in constant check with the data they hold. Brown delivers her information by chapters and separating her content, so it is understandable and easy to navigate. She approaches archives by defining and understanding the concept of them. Every detailed explanation she offers deems itself as an important factor to creating and stabilizing archives. The influence that Brown describes is by combining archives and records, and the significance that it provides in practice. Archives are essential with their extensive content and ethics. This book acknowledges Brown’s thoughts and words to understand the precise definition of archive. Archives hold many sections that go into making them stable and functionable, so it contains perfect management. Brown brings strategies on how to uphold these values for long term archives that are practical.
The e-book holds valuable information towards archives. Archives are collections of documents and data that is preserved, bringing back the importance of archives is important so people can be informed on what these archives offer for future references.
Caroline Brown
e-Book
2013-11-23
Janet Jaimes
ISBN: 9781856048255. 9781783303083. 9781783300044.
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
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
Supporting the Exploration of Online Cultural Heritage Collections
Curation
The authors of this paper aim to show how interfaces and rich prospect browsers centered around the users of a specific archive can best help the needs of the primary users. The authors’ goal is to solve problems faced by other cultural heritage collections. “These problems are lack of accessibility, limited functionalities to explore the collection through browsing, and risk of less known content being overlooked.” Their focus centers on the Dutch Folktale Database which was designed for folktale experts, but actually appealed more for casual users of the general public. The authors try to present new interfaces in order to appeal to both sets of users. The author’s main point is that as cultural heritage collections are digitised, the people who consume the content expands to larger audiences and the interfacing has to reflect this from the beginning.
I believe this paper is a good addition to the archive because it involves an archive centered in the culture of another country. I think it also considers how media archives and physical archives are different. It considers the difference between these archives by platform and how the archive should be adjusted to suit the potential viewers. Keeping in mind how to benefit the original and expanded audience is important while building a successful platform.
de Jong, Ruud; Dolf, Trieschnigg; Everhardus, Iwe; Hiemstra, Djoerd; Meder, Theo; Smink, Nigel; Theune, Mariet
Digital Humanities Quarterly
2018-01-17
Alexis Cosio
Online Journal
Digital Curation: A How-To-Do-It Manual
Curation
Ross Harvey's latest guide takes readers through the step by step process of creating their own digital archive. The book contains online resources, tutorials, and references that hep the reader learn the latest techniques in creating a digital archive.
Harvey, Ross
Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.
2010 July 31
Book
ISBN: 9781555706944
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