An Efficient Approach based on Polygon Approximation to Query Spatial Data on Digital Archiving System
Archives
This research paper shows mathematical formulas that show the potential of a method known as "polygon approximation" that will allow for the digital query of digital archival systems to be improved upon to better their use. This methods improvements on the digital archiving system depends on what the focus is, because there will be drawbacks: if the polygon approximation improves the spatial query, then the precision of searches may be decreased. If the search precision is improved upon, then there wouldn't be as much spatial query. Through the use of diagrams and formulas, the source shows the reasons why the polygonal shape can help improve the way that we use digital archives, aiding in the search for methods to allow archives to be permanent and secure. How this method works all relies on the amount of sides that the polygon has in the formula, to where the more sides that the polygon has then the more efficient the spatial query would be, whereas the less sides that the polygon has results in the efficiency in the search precision. The decision made to best put this method to use would be to change the shape of the polygon according to the usage of the users, reflecting what would benefit them more in the moment.
Su, Wei-Tsung. Wei, Hsiang-Yu. Yeh Jian-Hua. Chen, Wei-Cheng.
2017
Gonzalez, Sean
Journal
9781509048977
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.
Archives: Principles and Practices
Digital Humanities
In her book Archives: Principles and Practices, author Laura Millar dives deep into the world of archiving, explaining archiving from the very beginning by breaking down the essentials of what an archive is and how archives are essential to preserving our history. Millar details how the process of creating an archive is simple: starting with a piece of knowledge, then detailing how a piece of knowledge becomes a record, which then ultimately becomes an archive. Millar’s research is not only limited to just digital archives, but all types of archives, as she argues that all archives serve a purpose to achieve a common goal. This book breaks down all archival concepts from records, documentary evidence, content and context, explaining the difference between all of these, why it is important to know the difference between them, and how each of them are used. The use of textual examples, visual examples, and easy- to-read language helps the reader understand Archiving in simple terms while still offering useful and intelligent detail, breaking down complex concepts and making them seem easy. In Archives: Principles and Practices, Millar presents archiving as an important part of our personal histories, essential in documenting our world’s history, and why everybody should be familiar with it.
Millar, Laura A.
Facet Publishing
2017
Lafontaine, Marisa
E-Book
ISBN: 9781783302062, 9781783302079, 9781783302086
Archiving the Visual
Archives
This article takes a look at the difficulties presented to researchers due to the newspaper digitization. These difficulties are mainly due to the fact that the pictures and formatting of the newspapers have been removed to allow the proper information to be conveyed. The research in this article will be looking at digitized newspapers relating to the 1985 bombing of the MOVE1 house in Philadelphia, PA.
Maurantonio, Nicole
Routledge
January 2014
Rosa, Ryan
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Journal Article
Archiving websites: a practical guide for information management professionals
Web archiving
Drawing on the author's experience of managing the National Archives' web archiving programme together with lessons learned from other international initiatives, this book offers a comprehensive overview of current best practice, together with practical guidance on establishing a web archiving programme.
Brown, Adrian
Facet Publishing
2006
Branch, Justin
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals 2009-2015.
Book
ISBN: 9781856045537
Asking Questions and Building a
Research Agenda for Digital Scholarship
Digital humanities
One of the major issues facing humanities scholars is access to data for reuse or repurposing. Data used in the humanities encompasses the broad and diverse humanities disciplines. The types of research conducted in a digital environment are based on each discipline's history and methods of practice. Friedlander, however, believes there is sufficient common ground among the individual disciplines that a shared infrastructure of tools, services, and collections would be cost and energy efficient, as well as producing fresh insights and opportunities for greater collaboration. She describes the technical tools and applications for accessing data, and identifies critical questions for researchers regarding the scale of their projects and networks of communication. Friedlander persuasively argues that the size or type of institution is not as important as the shared values and standard protocols among the collaborating groups.
Friedlander, Amy
Council on Library and Information Resources
March 2009
Polk, Victoria
CLIR
Report
http://www.clir.org/pubs/resources/promoting-digital-scholarship-ii-clir-neh/index.html/friedlander.pdf
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
Web archiving
The ubiquity of digital data and its seemingly effortless and transparent transmission in routine commerce and communication is rarely discussed from both technical and socio-political perspectives in one work. In this book, however, the authors provide a detailed technological history of digitization while also illuminating the social and cultural consequences of this information explosion. Two areas of concern for the authors and of particular interest for digital archivists are the changing view toward privacy and knowing what data should be preserved or deleted. In the former area, Abelson, Ledeen, and Lewis explain the gradual shift in perceptions of privacy as digital devices including credit cards, cell phones, digital cameras, and GPS trackers that encode and embed personal and local data. Consumers of these devices become acclimatized to the trade-off of personal privacy for the conveniences they provide.
Data leakage and unethical trading of information, however, is another type of trade-off that challenges those responsible for securing and maintaining digital content, (which the authors contend is regulated by the U.S. in piecemeal fashion). Tracking and securing digitized documents are matters of concern for archivists, not just to balance the needs of the citizen’s right to know and to privacy. Knowing what to make accessible, for whom, and what must be done for long-term preservation requires an understanding of the technical properties of its collected artifacts. The authors discuss the technical properties of text and image, underscoring the importance of applying this knowledge to storage methods. In addition to storing data, the authors also discuss the difficulty in permanently deleting data, despite the short life of technological hardware and software. Creating multiple copies, and sharing content by standardizing protocols and data structures, requires widespread coordination and what the authors describe, “creative compromise.”
Abelson, Hal
Ledeen, Ken
Harry R. Lewis
Addison-Wesley Professional
2008
Polk, Victoria
Addison-Wesley
E-Book
http://www.bitsbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/B2B_3.pdf
Building Relationships: "A Foundation for Digital Archives"
Archives
This article asks if it is worth the time and resources to collaborate with other digital archives. It explores six digital archives that were funded through the Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program to collaborate with each other. Building relationships amongst archivists is time-consuming. The most important factor in these relationships is trust. However, the experience shows that the benefits of collaboration far outweigh the costs. Collaboration allows professionals to work from a common knowledge base. It creates better relationships with data providers and software developers. And it allows for networked collections with common standards. Similarly, often, digital archives have certain strengths and weaknesses that complement each other. Working together allows digital archives to accomplish much more than if they were working alone. For these reasons, the authors argue that collaboration is essential to any digital archiving project.
Crabtree, Jonathan
Donakowski, Darrell
Polk, Victoria
Journal Article
http://www.ils.unc.edu/tibbo/JCDL2006/Crabtree-JCDLWorkshop2006.pdf
Claiming the Archive for Rhetoric and Composition
Pedagogy
Susan Wells’ "Claiming the Archive for Rhetoric and Composition" is broken into three sections where she outlines the “gifts” of “resistance,” “freedom,” and “possibility” that digital archiving technology affords composition and rhetoric students, and scholars. Her concept of resistance involves the tendency for archives to complicate, and challenge a researchers’ hypotheses forcing them to critically engage the(ir own) process of inquiry. She continues by offering the gift of “freedom,” where she argues that the proliferation of resources and archives pertaining to the humanities, and composition and rhetoric in particular serve as justification of the field, while challenging traditional conceptions of “text” and “scholarly” work. She defines the gift of “possibility” by suggesting that archives can, and should be used to review and revise the substance, and political positioning of composition and rhetoric departments in the face of reduced budgets, and the dismissal of the field as merely a service to other “legitimate” scholarly subjects. She further posits that archives allow for the emergence of new and important dialogistic relationships, seeing archives as a place for the voices of “others” to be discovered, studied, and engaged. She uses Jacqueline Jones Royster’s Traces of a Stream as an example of an archive of “other” voices, the study of which she suggests should lead to new perspectives of our own voices, and situations.
Wells, Susan
2002
Foley, Christopher
E-Book
ISBN-13: 978-0809324330
Copyright Protection and Cumulative Creation: Evidence from Early Twentieth-Century Music
Copyright
This article uses information from an online database of music sampling to estimate the effect of copyright protection on the cumulative use of music. Using unique panel data that link upstream and downstream music, the author uses regression analysis to examine the rates at which early 20th-century musical works were used throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The results suggest that copyright protection causes an upstream work to be used less than half as often as it would be if it were in the public domain after conditioning on upstream-song and downstream-year fixed effects. Placebo regressions in which the copyright expiration date is artificially shifted forward and backward in time by 2, 5, and 10 years suggest an immediate effect of copyright expiration on downstream use.
Stephanie Holmes Didwania
The University of Chicago Press Journals
June 2018
Antonella Federici
Journal