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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
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.
An Ethical Perspective on Political-Economic Issues in the Long-Term Preservation of Digital Heritage
Subject
Web Archiving
Description
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 their argument: in the first example, digital archivists located in a wealthy first-world country “harvest” web content created in an economically disadvantaged country without consent. In the second scenario, archivists in the same first-world country offer to digitize content from a third-world archive and propose a contract that allows both sides access to the digital archive. Lor and Britz argue that in both cases, first world archivists have a systemic advantage, and what they offer is not a collaboration, but essentially exploitation. Drawing on a broad variety of ethical frameworks, Lor and Britz attempt to offer a comprehensive catalogue of moral considerations for fair and equal forms of collaboration.
Creator
Lor, Peter Johan, and J.J. Britz
Date
2012
Contributor
Laura Moeller
Type
Journal article
Bibliographic Citation
Lor, Peter Johan, and J.J. Britz. "An Ethical Perspective on Political-Economic Issues in the Long-Term Preservation of Digital Heritage." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63 (2012): 2153–2164.
Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar
Subject
Archives
Description
The Advanced Studies Center of the International Institute of the University of Michigan held a year-long Sawyer Seminar from 2000-2001 to investigate the complicated relationships between archives, forms of documentation, and societies. The program had 100 presentations over 28 sessions with representation from 15 different countries. The focus of the seminar was the role of archives in the production of knowledge. The book is divided into five sections. The first section deals with archives themselves. How does one define an archive? The second section looks at how archives are used in the production of knowledge. The third section is about social memory. These articles explore how archives create knowledge about broader social processes and activities that can be used to explore the past, such as how archives can deliberately limit, shape, or structure certain kinds of social understanding. The fourth section examines archives and political cultures, specifically Canada, the Caribbean, Western Europe, African, and European Colonial Archives. Essays cover the challenge of recovering “memory” in areas of colonialism and postcolonialism, revolutionary events, and evolving stable states. In contrast to section four, the last section covers archives and social understanding in states undergoing rapid transition, such as China, Postwar Japan, Postwar Greece, Russia, Ukraine, and the Balkins. The essays examine the relationship between state archives and governments, and they look at how politics affects archives.
Creator
Blouin Jr., Francis
Rosenberg, William R
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Date
2006
Contributor
Polk, Victoria
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
Type
Book
Identifier
ISBN-13: 978-0472032709
ISBN-10: 0472032704
Bibliographic Citation
Blouin, Jr, Francis X., and William G. Rosenberg, eds. Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
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
Haskins examines the effects of the Internet on the memory work of archives and the informal, vernacular style of the broad public. Examples of the vernacular style of memory work include the spontaneous display of mementos at memorials or sites of mourning, and uploading personal stories and photographs to the Internet via social media. Traditionally, archival memory stores and orders material traces of the past without the presence or engagement by the public. However, the Internet continually archives the transmission of media and exponentially, the private opinions, ephemera, and idiosyncratic methods of organization of its contributors. The diversity of public opinion and the sharing of content afford both potentially beneficial and destructive consequences. Participation in memory work by a greater cross-section of society that is unaffected by more conservative, institutional restraints supports the values and beliefs of a democratic society. Conversely, that same diversity fosters insularity, given the widely fragmented content and the commercial profit gained by nurturing individualistic self-expression. Haskins proposes, through her examination of the 9-11 digital archive a balanced approach to centering memory work by cultural heritage institutions with guidelines for public participation and fostering a comprehensive view of history.
Creator
Haskins, Katerina
Publisher
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Date
2007
Contributor
Polk, Victoria
Rights
The Rhetoric Society of America
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Haskins, Katerina. "Between Archive and Participation: Public Memory in a Digital Age." Rhetoric Society Quarterly v. 37, n.4. (2007): 401-422.
Instructional Method
Haskins illuminates one of the most critical challenges facing builders of digital archives: balancing the time-tested standards and methods for storing and providing access to a comprehensive representation of cultural knowledge against the demands for digitization and greater public participation. In this article, she alerts the reader to the potential loss of historical consciousness and a “self-congratulatory amnesia” resulting from the Internet style of unbridled public expression. Archives should facilitate broad perspectives and a sense of the larger body politic. As digital archivists, we provide the contextual information, tools, and interface design that may either enhance or detract from the idea of cultural memory.
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.
Bread and Breath: Two Reflections on the Ethics of (Doing) History
Subject
Archives
Description
The article presents the views of authors on ethics related to scholarly research. One author stated that it is not always ethical to collect oral histories, but there are also ethical concerns when a historian feasts in the archives. While another author considers whether the institutionalized ethics of historical research can blind historians to the deeper and more fundamental ethical demands of working with the past.
Creator
Buchanan, Rachel and Tumarkin, Maria
Date
2012-05
Contributor
Vieira, Lisa
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Buchanan, Rachel and Tumarkin, Maria. "Bread and Breath: Two Reflections on the Ethics of (Doing) History." Australian Humanities Review no. 52 (May 2012): 71-89. Humanities Source, EBSCOhost.
Campus Guides. ACURIL 2011: The Role of Libraries and Archives in Disaster Preparedness, Response and Research
Subject
Archives
Description
Hosted by the University of South Florida Libraries, this conference on the role of libraries an archives in disaster preparedness and response speaks to one of the ways that libraries and archives are so important to the preservation of cultural items and information not only for the future, but in light of natural disasters that may occur to damage those culturally important items. Items are presented in the three official languages of the conference: English, Spanish, and French to represent the international involvement and cooperation of the conference. Along with American universities in the Gulf of Mexico region, the conference is headed by the ACIRIL (Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries). Sessions of the conference include topics such as standards for digitization that would allow information to be accessed by other institutions should the need arise, and how health and disaster preparedness information can be archived by libraries for use by the public. Using libraries and archives as ‘information centers’ for the public during a time of disaster can work in collaboration with government and organizational efforts to assist recovery.
Creator
Hanson, A.
Publisher
Association of Caribbean University Research and Institutional Libraries
Hanson, A. "Campus Guides. ACURIL 2011: The Role of Libraries and Archives in Disaster Preparedness, Response and Research." ACURIL (2011): 1-34. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.
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).