Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Third European Conference
Subject
Curation
Description
“Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries” is one out of many in a elongated series. This exact version is titled as the Third European Conference Proceedings, published in 1999. The purpose of this text is to enhance the skills of the readers by breaking down the individual means of archinging separated by every chapter. The text first breaks down the “text-book” approaches of digitizing and categorizing images for digital downloading and archiving. The text then goes into the various methods of doing this, but in what they believe to be in more efficient manners. There are many tools and methods explained in the text for “first time users” of archiving and digitization. This is an essential addition to the archiving website because it has various instructions that can be help to a first time user to these new programs for archiving. In addition, it offers a lot of design guidelines and assistance in regard to aesthetics to make it easier for the reader to present their information for a wider audience. This is an extremely relevant addition because many instructions for archiving assume that every reader knows the basics. This text offers information in a way that a beginner or an expert can gain valuable knowledge from.
Creator
ECDL ‘99 (1999: Paris, France); Abiteboul, S. (Serge); Vercoustre, Anne-Marie.
Date
1999
Contributor
Clara Pulido, Jacquelyn Curtin, Truc Duong
Identifier
ISBN: 978-3-540-66558-8
Bibliographic Citation
Abiteboul, Serge. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Third European Conference, ECDL 99, Paris, France, September 22-24, 1999: Proceedings. Berlin: Springer, 1999.
The Early Americas Digital Archive by Ralph Bauer is a collection of works that provides access to various forms of literature such as: poems, prose, histories, diaries, journals, and letters written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. This archive was made as an attempt to help preserve the literature from English and Spanish text in the Early Americas and to allow others to read and analyze the pieces years after their creation. These works are from the Early Americas digital archive (EADS) database and the Gateway to early American authors on the web are available for others to access.
Creator
Bauer, Ralph
Date
2003
Contributor
Jordan Lunsford
Type
Book
Bibliographic Citation
Baur, Ralph. Early Americas Digital Archive. Library of Congress, 2003. https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2003542969&searchType=1&permalink=y.
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Virtual Preservation of Contemporary Architectural Heritage in Developing Countries in Absence of Protection: Digital Reconstruction, Recording, and Archiving before Complete Disappearance]]>2020-05-02T17:21:30+00:00
Title
Virtual Preservation of Contemporary Architectural Heritage in Developing Countries in Absence of Protection: Digital Reconstruction, Recording, and Archiving before Complete Disappearance
Subject
Digital Humanities
Description
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.
Creator
Esmaeili, Human. Woods, Peter Charles. Thwaites, Harold
Date
2015
Contributor
Gonzalez, Sean
Type
Journal
Identifier
9781467397216
Bibliographic Citation
Esmaeili, Human, et al.. "Virtual Preservation of Contemporary Architectural Heritage in Developing Countries in Absence of Protection: Digital Reconstruction, Recording, and Archiving before Complete Disappearance." 11th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems, 2015
The Archive Strikes Back: Effects of Online Digital Language Archiving on Research Relations and Property Rights
Subject
Copyright
Description
This chapter examines the complications that are present when attempting to digitally archive spoken languages, focusing on how researchers and archivists must act to minimize or avoid property right violations. Widlok first explains why researchers find it necessary to digitize their archives, believing that non-digitized collections risk becoming “data cemeteries” that are more prone to data loss. By placing their research into these archives and with the efficient use of metadata, these collections become more effective in data preservation. However, the digitization of this data brings new concerns for archivists. These issues often center around matters of access to collections. Many archivists attempt to solve these problems by providing layered access to these collections, with different groups being allowed to view different levels of content. However, Widlok notes that this solution does not solve the problem when working with the property rights of the spoken languages of different communities. Some members involved, such as funding agencies and researchers, may attempt to have this information more freely available, while members of these communities may desire more restrictions. Widlok also notes that there may be different opinions among members of the same community. He instructs researchers to take these varying attitudes into account and work to avoid instigating conflicts between opposing parties.
Creator
Widlok, Thomas
Date
2013
Contributor
Rahman, Sabiha
Type
Book Chapter
Identifier
ISBN: 9781909254329
Bibliographic Citation
Widlok, Thomas. "The Archive Strikes Back: Effects of Online Digital Language Archiving on Research Relations and Property Rights." In Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities, edited by Turin Mark, Wheeler Claire, and Wilkinson Eleanor, 3-20. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2013. DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt5vjtkq.6
A Newspaper/Periodical Digitization Project in Mongolia: Creating a Digital Archive of Rare Mongolian Publications
Subject
Curation
Description
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.
Creator
Matusiak, Krystyna K. and Munkhmandakh, Myagmar
Publisher
The Serials Librarian, Taylor & Francis Online
Date
2009-07-09
Contributor
Taveras, Sabrina
Type
Journal Article
Identifier
ISSN: 0361-526X (Print) 1541-1095 (Online)
Bibliographic Citation
Krystyna K. Matusiak & Myagmar Munkhmandakh. "A Newspaper/Periodical Digitization Project in Mongolia: Creating a Digital Archive of Rare Mongolian Publications." The Serials Librarian, July 09 2009. 57:1-2, 118-127, doi: 10.1080/03615260802669136.
Archives, Libraries, Collections, and Databases: A First Look at Digital Literary Studies in Mexico
Subject
Digital Humanities
Description
This article documents the professional and intellectual developments in the field of Digital Humanities and Digital Literary Studies in Mexico. It begins by surveying the evolution of scholarship production regarding digital archives, the media impact on the significance of archives, the accessibility of archives, and complexities in the preservation of archives. The article proceeds to explore the intersection of digital archives in Mexico with the origin and fortification of the Digital Humanities in the United States, highlighting the manner in which these junctions have promoted the establishment of appropriate methods and vocabularies to use in the examination of digitized and born-digital materials and productions. It concludes by examining various Mexican digital projects recently developed, proposing the uniqueness of Mexican literary scholarship on the digital humanities, emphasizing its decolonial perspectives, community building, and creative educational endeavors. Ortega denotes the exponential growth of Digital Humanities in Mexico, particularly under the disciplines of information sciences, communications, and philosophy. Digital literary projects and textual academia hold some major representation in Mexico as well, coming in numerous forms depending on objectives, the collections and subjects they deal with, and the institutional support that accompanies them. Among the projects that stand out the most in the Mexican practice of the digital humanities, Ortega underlines, one must recognize the archival developments of projects such as the libraries of the UNAM.
Creator
Ortega, Élika
Publisher
Hispanic Review, University of Pennsylvania Press
Date
2018
Contributor
Taveras, Sabrina
Type
Journal Article
Identifier
ISSN: 1553-0639
Bibliographic Citation
Élika Ortega. “Archives, Libraries, Collections, and Databases: A First Look at Digital Literary Studies in Mexico” 86, no. 2 (2018): 229–47. doi:10.1353/hir.2018.0016.
Between Archive and Participation: Public Memory in a Digital Age
Subject
Collective Memory
Description
In sizing up the notion of public memory, rhetoricians would be remiss not to consider the increasing influence of new media on today's remembrance culture. This article addresses memorial functions of the internet in light of recent scholarly debates about virtues and drawbacks of modern 'archival memory' as well as the paradoxical link between the contemporary public obsession with memory and the acceleration of amnesia. To explore the strengths and limitations of the internet as a vehicle of collecting, preserving, and displaying traces of the past, the article examines The September 11 Digital Archive, a comprehensive online effort to document public involvement in recording and commemorating the tragedy of 11 September, 2001.
Creator
Haskins, Ekaterina
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Date
2007
Contributor
Vieira, Lisa
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Haskins, Ekaterina. "Between Archive and Participation: Public Memory in a Digital Age." Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2007): 401. JSTOR Journals, EBSCOhost.
Negotiating Community Literary Practice: Public Memory Work and the Boston Marathon Bombing Digital Archive
Subject
Collective Memory
Description
This study examines Our Marathon <http://marathon.neu.edu>, which is a digital historiography website created in response to the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15th, 2013. As a participatory archive, Our Marathon is an example of community literacy practice. This article explores the construction of community through the public memory work of the archive by examining two collections of archival artifacts: public submissions and the Boston City Archives content. This examination reveals the complexity of community construction, but also the influence of Our Marathon as a material support for the work of public memory. Highlighting the archive's negotiation between an intimate space for community participation in the wake of trauma, and its role as an open, digital archive with global reach, this article demonstrates that tensions of this negotiation are useful to highlight the power of the archive as a location of public memory construction, and can suggest ways Our Marathon and other digital historiographic projects can better foster community participation and formation through the reflexive collection, preservation, and display of archival content.
Creator
Smith, Kevin G.
Publisher
Elsevier Inc.
Date
2016-03-16
Contributor
Vieira, Lisa
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Smith, Kevin G. "Negotiating Community Literacy Practice: Public Memory Work and the Boston Marathon Bombing Digital Archive." Computers and Composition (March 16, 2016): ScienceDirect,EBSCOhost.
Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Subject
Copyright
Description
The development of new digital technologies has led to fundamental changes in the ways that cultural institutions fulfill their public missions of access, preservation, research, and education. Many institutions are developing publicly accessible Web sites that allow users to visit online exhibitions, search collection databases, access images of collection items, and in some cases create their own digital content. Digitization, however, also raises the possibility of copyright infringement. It is imperative that staff in libraries, archives, and museums understand fundamental copyright principles and how institutional procedures can be affected by the law. "Copyright and Cultural Institutions" was written to assist understanding and compliance with copyright law. It addresses the basics of copyright law and the exclusive rights of the copyright owner, the major exemptions used by cultural heritage institutions, and stresses the importance of "risk assessment" when conducting any digitization project. Case studies on digitizing oral histories and student work are also included. (Provided by authors)
Creator
Hirtle, Peter, Emily Hudson, and Andrew T. Kenyon
Publisher
Cornell University Library
Date
2009
Contributor
Eaddy, Brionna
Type
Book
Identifier
ISBN: 9780935995107
Bibliographic Citation
Hirtle, Peter B., Emily Hudson, and Andrew T. Kenyon. Copyright and cultural institutions : guidelines for digitization for U.S. libraries, archives, and museums. n.p.: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Library, c2009., 2009. UCF Libraries Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed April 22, 2016).
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This article argues that such classes would not only build mutually beneficial relationships between town and gown but also encourage students to recognize that the approach to history they are familiar with—one that emphasizes national leaders and “major” events—is part of the same tendency to value the powerful that has caused African American history to be underpreserved. Preserving and publicizing local histories counters this tendency and may help produce a younger generation of scholars who are attuned to politics of power and privilege within the scholarship they encounter and produce. (Provided by publisher)]]>2016-08-17T23:03:38+00:00
Title
Making African American History in the Classroom: The Pedagogy of Processing Undervalued Archives
Subject
Pedagogy
Description
This article argues that getting students to learn about archival preservation and research in the context of an underpreserved, underresearched history offers a number of pedagogical rewards. Colleges and universities are pushing to increase community-based learning opportunities for undergraduates. At the same time, digital humanities initiatives are making it increasingly possible for undergraduates to work hands-on with primary sources, and a number of university-sponsored efforts are being made to process and digitize neglected African American archives. Many of these projects make use of graduate student labor, but few have recognized the benefits of engaging undergraduates in processing local and minority archives as part of their classroom experience.
This article argues that such classes would not only build mutually beneficial relationships between town and gown but also encourage students to recognize that the approach to history they are familiar with—one that emphasizes national leaders and “major” events—is part of the same tendency to value the powerful that has caused African American history to be underpreserved. Preserving and publicizing local histories counters this tendency and may help produce a younger generation of scholars who are attuned to politics of power and privilege within the scholarship they encounter and produce. (Provided by publisher)
Creator
Godfrey, Mollie
Publisher
Duke University Press
Date
2016-01
Contributor
Eaddy, Brionna
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Mollie Godfrey. "Making African American History in the Classroom: The Pedagogy of Processing Undervalued Archives." Pedagogy 16, no. 1 (2016): 165-177. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed April 20, 2016).