Virtual Preservation of Contemporary Architectural Heritage in Developing Countries in Absence of Protection: Digital Reconstruction, Recording, and Archiving before Complete Disappearance
Digital Humanities
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.
Esmaeili, Human. Woods, Peter Charles. Thwaites, Harold
2015
Gonzalez, Sean
Journal
9781467397216
Copyright Protection of Letters, Diaries, and Other Unpublished Works: An Economic Approach
Copyright
The author talks about one of the most controversial questions in copyright law today concerns the proper scope of protection for unpublished works, a few examples of these are letters, diaries, journals, reports, and/or drafts that the owner of it may publish in the future. He stands by his statement that the question does not become whether or not it has the ability to be copyrighted, but rather it's more about whether the work should be given stronger copyright protection than published or widely disseminated works? The interest in this topic causes the author to talk about several cases, like Harper and Row vs. Nation Enterprises.
William M. Landes
The University of Chicago Press Journals
January 1992
Journal
The Future of History: Investigating the Preservation of Information in the Digital Age
Curation
The following article goes into detail regarding a study that was conducted to “the challenges of preserving information in the digital age, and explores how this may affect the future of historical knowledge.” The study itself is the result of “a series of semi-structured interviews with forty-one historians, archivists, librarians, and web researchers.” That said, it is important to keep in mind that the results as whole argue against historical records having association with the term ‘digital black hole’ in both connotative and denotative meanings. Instead, its focus should center on “the importance of the issue for the future of history, and the complexity of the solutions to be adopted.” Especially in regard to education, planning, as well as the cooperation between historians and the information professions. For instance, many of the issues revolve around things like certain hardware and software being out of date and current law(s) make it very hard for memory institutions to not only capture but preserve digital material. Then there’s the preexisting legal framework which does not reflect the “digital age”. Not to mention, challenges within social and cultural domains. That’s why trying to figure out the answer to questions like “What can be done today to ensure future historians will have access to a rich historical record so they can tell the story of our time to future generations?"
Edinburgh University Press
September, 2012
Hannah Baker
Journal Article
Copyright: Current Viewpoints on History, Laws, Legislation
Copyright
An in depth explanation starting with the history of copyright which started in England in the late fifteenth century. It explains how as printing presses began to grow, authorities sought to control the publication of books by granting printers a near monopoly on publishing in England. So the Licensing Act of 1662 confirmed that monopoly and established a register of licensed books to be administered by the Stationers’ Company, a group of printers with the authority to censor publications. This book follows the different cases that happened as a result of the different laws that began to emerge following the Licensing Act of 1662. The information is explained through the viewpoints of the author himself. He follows the different and most current legislations that exist under the topic of copyright and explains how each one of them works and how it affects the user. He follows it up with an in depth explanation of his prediction of the future of copyright laws and how it'll affect the future generations.
Allen Kent and Harold Lancour
Bowker
January 1972
Antonella Federici
Book
ISBN:978-0835205429
The Apparatus Criticus in the Digital Age
Curation
The focus of this article is to help eliminate several of the limitations that a traditional print has by providing a new model that suits the digital age. All the while giving readers the chance to participate in an active role regarding their own texts. Not only that, discussions on possibilities as well as prospects for the apparatus criticus regarding text editing and ways to easily access some of the benefits digital scholarships provides. That said, the author starts off by explaining an apparatus criticus and how most don’t even read them by comparing it to how people (usually college students when doing research papers) don’t check let alone read footnotes. So, to change that and get more readers engaged, the author proposes a way to fix that by outlining “what editors and readers can gain from a fundamentally new approach to the apparatus criticus.” In other words, the author wants to “somehow to record every little detail but only to confront the reader with the most important points.” The only problem with that is not every (print) editor does things the same way, some might put only what’s considered important while the rest is in the appendix. As a result, the author will show how he is able to go around that through an explained model throughout the rest of the article.
Classical Association of the Middle West & South, Inc.
Feb-March, 2017
Hannah Baker
Journal Article
Conserving Digital Resources: Issues and Future Access
Copyright
The following article explores the issues surrounding digital preservation. Especially when it comes to deciding what should and shouldn’t be preserved. In addition to that, it is important to note the ease in which something published online can be shared. Unlike something that was physically published/printed thus limiting who has access to it. As a result, the design of an archive requires constant though necessary management of activities over a long period of time. However, for that to work, guidelines need to be put in place prior to it being put into practice. As it helps with figuring out what to collect and save because not only does it limit system overload it keeps unnecessary things from getting in. That’s not to say that what wasn’t selected isn’t important, it just that like physical books it’d be really hard to save everything. On the flip side, “Born digital data is too voluminous and too fragile to be left to the caprice of short-term needs and priorities.” So, to help those who might be looking at something in the future saving selectively is key. That way just enough is needed to provide an accurate record, which is why looking at issues in various ways is essential.
Taylor & Francis
July-Sept., 2014
Hannah Baker
Journal Article
Teaching to Dismantle White Supremacy in Archives
Pedagogy
This article gives a transparent view of how archives have been affected by white supremacy. Caswell provides simple ways for students and professionals to dismantle the signs of white supremacy in archives across the United States. Caswell’s greatest teaching is the ethics behind the critique of materials. Caswell creates a model of behaviors to help students resist the unconscious teachings of white supremacy by retraining the impressionable students in her class. Caswell explains that the election of President Trump, who has shown to be homophobic, sexist and racist, has created a divide in the classroom. The only way to prevent this is for teachers to intervene pedagogically. The students identify instances in which archives have white privilege embedded in them and how to collectively strategize steps to dismantle white supremacy in the student’s own personal archiving. Caswell proposes that students will exhibit behavior based on what is already innate in their minds, but Caswell’s model of behavior trains students to think differently.
Caswell’s article gives real life instruction on how politics both in the past and currently, effect digital or physical archiving. While most people don’t intentionally allow white privilege in archiving, Caswell’s article shows that it is an unconscious act that is done from years of example from the many role models of a person’s life.
Michelle Caswell
The Library Quarterly
July 2017
Abbygail Dees
Journal Article
A Newspaper/Periodical Digitization Project in Mongolia: Creating a Digital Archive of Rare Mongolian Publications
Curation
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.
Matusiak, Krystyna K. and Munkhmandakh, Myagmar
The Serials Librarian, Taylor & Francis Online
2009-07-09
Taveras, Sabrina
Journal Article
ISSN: 0361-526X (Print) 1541-1095 (Online)
International employee assistance digital archive: A new knowledge hub
Collective Memory
This journal article documents the history and digitization efforts performed and enforced by the International Employee Assistance Digital Archive (EA Archive), housed at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Social Work (UMSSW). The Employee Assistance Archive adopts the coordinated endeavor to transfer paper-based research documentation to digital platforms that grant its users increased access to vast amounts of content oriented towards social workers, opening its availability at no cost to the user since 2013. With UMSSW’s expansive history of leadership in the field of master’s level social work education, the university focuses on the digitization of large amounts of records and historical documents that previously remained inaccessible for the public before its incorporation into a digital online format. As archivists around the world contribute to greater access to research materials, the EA takes into prominent consideration the indispensable teachings and ideas of other acclaimed archive examples in the implementation of policies and digitization approaches. The article serves as an introduction to the Employee Assistance Archive for readers and authors of the Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health (JWBH), placing preeminent attention on the encouragement of its readers to take part in the effort and contribute their research as a way to boost public access to more global audiences.
Herlihy, Patricia A.; Frey, Jody Jacobson; Lin, Na; and Khan, Alaina
Haworth Press, Taylor & Francis Online
2020-02-15
Taveras, Sabrina
Journal Article
ISSN: 1555-5240 (Print) 1555-5259 (Online)
How Soon Is Now? Writings on Digital Archiving in Canada from the 1980's to 2011
archives
Examines history of Canadian archiving practices and argues for the continuation of machine readable archive (MRA) methods, ideas, and approaches in the present day
Greg Bak
THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS
2016
Steven Eley
research-article
ISSN: 03609081