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Collaborative Efforts to Preserve Born-Digital Architectural Records: A Case Study Documenting Present-Day Practice
Architecture firms have used computers as an integral part of the design process for the past thirty to forty years, but born-digital architectural records are only now being donated to repositories for preservation. This article reviews the…
Web Archiving
The PADI Web Archiving webpage provides an overview of global web archiving practices as well as resources on issues related to web archiving. It briefly defines different models for and approaches to web archiving before providing case studies of…
The Crowd and the Library: The Agony and the Ecstasy of "Crowdsourcing" our Cultural Heritage
Author and archivist, Trevor Owens, discusses a wide range of issues relating to digital archives and preservation. In this blog, he describes crowdsourcing and offers a rationale for soliciting "citizen archivists" to contribute content to large…
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage.
"The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is a diverse coalition of organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment." "NINCH pursues its mission by: educating…
The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective
“The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective: An international Perspective. Conference Proceedings is defined as a “collective of papers” published and released April 24th, 2002. These collective papers of text have many…
The Born Digital in the Archives: One Curator's Experience
The documents and files created and stored in composer Jonathan Larson’s computer were donated to the Music Division of the Library of Congress upon Jonathan’s death. Doug Reside, digital curator for the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts…
Teaching in the Archives: Engaging Students and Inverting Historical Methods Classes at The Historic New Orleans Collection
The authors of this piece aim to introduce the use of primary documents in the classroom to better engage students with the history they are learning. The article offers insight into inverted course models: those that emphasize hands-on learning in…
An Ethical Perspective on Political-Economic Issues in the Long-Term Preservation of Digital Heritage
This article considers long-term preservation of digital heritage from a social justice perspective, with a specific focus on ethical obligations for archivists in first world countries. The authors envision two fictional scenarios to illustrate…
All This Stuff: Archiving the Artist
"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…
Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order Out of Media Chaos: Second Edition for 2016
A guide to the emerging field of digital asset management, featuring quotes from industry experts, job descriptions, and case studies.