Oldies But Goodies: Archiving Web- Based Information
Web archiving
Phyllis Holman Weisbard discusses the ways of archiving web-based information. With so much former print versions of materials now available electronically, what she focuses on is how material that never had a print version (born digitals) are in the most danger of disappearing. Web domains lapse, e-zines lose funding and as a result their materials disappear. Weisbard focuses her attention on the Internet Archive and pays particular attention to its Wayback Machine. Wayback crawls through millions of websites (using Alexa software) and saves versions of these sites. She then turns her attention to web archiving projects that focus solely on women. She gives URLs for a blog resource on women’s voices, describes Aletta, Institute for Women’s History, and how the staff has created hundreds of items of women’s e-zines and newsletters, LOCKSS, and Portico (other initiatives dedicated to preserving the writings of women). This article has information on web archiving technology focusing on preserving women’s writings. Weisbard’s article shows visuals of each site so you can examine each interface. Her essay is a call to action for Women’s Studies scholars to be more proactive in preserving of these female voices by working in collaboration with librarians and archivists.
Weisbard, Phyllis Holman
2011
Elena Rogalle
Journal article
On Creating a Usable Future
Digital humanities
Jerome McGann’s focus in this essay is directed at how crucial it is to establish both research and online scholarship as we reconsider the humanities in the digital age. He highlights the “systematic institutional dysfunction” as the crisis in humanities. He believes humanities scholarship can be sustained through the cooperation of four institutional agents: scholars, publishing companies, professional journals and libraries. He questions the institutional commitment to the development of digital systems that are meant to replace print-based systems. McGann recounts his experience with The Rosetti Archive, which now “comprises seventy thousand digital files and forty-two thousand hyperlinks.” This archive includes high-resolution images of all known work by Daniel Gabriel Rosetti, including art and manuscripts. McGann discusses important issues in regards to work in the humanities and claims that scholars in the field all have the same need no matter the delivery system (digital or print) and that is to make cultural records inclusive, constant, and accessible. Having another archive to investigate, especially one that is interdisciplinary is vital to future research on creating archives.
McGann, Jerome
2011
Elena Rogalle
Journal article
New Age Scholarship: The Work of Criticism in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Digital humanities
In this article, Sean Latham discusses the changes to scholarly work since more and more archival work has become available through digital means. He examines how the constraints imposed by the former print-only text have been removed by digital technologies. Latham provides an examination of the digital archive using an experiment of how theoretical work can be encouraged by digital technology, proving that the digital archive can create a “transformative” mode of scholarly research. The digital archive, Latham claims, requires a “hybrid” type of scholarly work allowing for connections across texts to be accessed immediately. The article provides insights into electronic reproduction and how digital texts can move beyond the linearity of the printed form. An explanation of how a digital archive is translated into binary data constructing a hypertext can provide the user with the control over the text. Latham provides concise information about how scholars are no longer tied to the hierarchally organized version of a text, but rather, can go from a univocal approach to a multivocal one. Historical documents are now available to a vast majority of users.
Latham, Sean
2004
Elena Rogalle
Journal article
New Media: The Key Concepts.
Archives
This book addresses six key concepts that are pivotal for understanding the influence of new media on contemporary culture. The specific chapter on Archive lays the groundwork for understanding digital archiving. It reiterates the work of Derrida and Foucault, providing context, while also touching on new technology uses in the digital age. Gane and Beer conclude “archives are depositories for the storage of written documents. This chapter provides foundational history on digital archiving while touching on critical theorists creating a bridge between literary studies and technology. As an introductory chapter on the archive, it provides a scope of understanding for new scholars interested in learning about creating an archive.
Gane, Nicholas
Beer, David
2012
Elena Rogalle
Book
ISBN-13: 978-1845201333
Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, Second Edition
Pedagogy
This second edition of Jay David Bolter's classic text expands on the objectives of the original volume, illustrating the relationship of print to new media and examining how hypertext and other forms of electronic writing refashion or "remediate" the forms and genres of print. Reflecting the dynamic changes in electronic technology since the first edition, this revision incorporates the Web and other current standards of electronic writing. As a text for students in composition, new technologies, information studies and related areas, this volume provides a unique examination of the computer as a technology for reading and writing.
Bolter, Jay David
Taylor & Francis Group
2001
Mulligan, Paige
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Book
ISBN: 978-0-8058-2919-8
Digital Humanities
Digital humanities
"Stanford scholars are harnessing the power of new technologies through an array of digital humanities endeavors. Current digital humanities projects are using tools like 3-D mapping, electronic literary analysis, digitization, and advanced visualization techniques in interdisciplinary research that aims to shed new light on humanities research. With online publishing and virtual archives, creators and users experiment and interact with source materials in ways that yield new findings, while also facilitating community building and information sharing. Stanford professors and students organize an array of workshop style forums to foster discussion of digital humanities scholarship. Guest presenters from around the globe regularly contribute to conversations about the techniques, challenges, and outcomes of digital humanities research.
In collaboration with the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) provides the support and technological resources that enable humanities scholars to conduct leading edge research with digital tools. CESTA offers opportunities for fellows and affiliates of the Humanities Center to pursue digital humanities projects, to participate in workshops and training sessions, and to publish the results of their work in our online venues. CESTA’s innovative model of collaborative scholarly practice in the humanities brings together interdisciplinary research teams made of seasoned researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars. CESTA’s collaborative model enhances the research opportunities available in existing humanities departments by providing qualified professional staff support in an open research space with the necessary software and hardware for research."
Antoine, Anshare
Stanford University
2014
Dejesus, Angela M.
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Website
Digital Archive Technology
Archives
Digital Archive converts paper, microfiche and film to a digital format. We use state of the art hardware and software in our document scanning process.
Antoine, Anshare
DigitalArchiveTechnology.com/
2009
Dejesus, Angela M.
© 2009 Digital Archive Technology, all rights reserved
Website
Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities
Digital humanities
Higher-Education gets a make-over.
Cohen, Daniel J. and Dr. Joseph Thomas Scheinfeldt PhD
University of Michigan Press
May 13, 2013
Webb, Kimberly
©2012, Regents of the University of Michigan.
Book.
ISBN-13: 978-0472051984
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Digital Humanities
ADHO supports digital research and teaching across all subjects, and is a community based advisory committee.
ADHO
Webb, Kmberly
ADHO
Website
Digital Memory and the Archive
Curation
In this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media theories of Wolfgang Ernst are particularly relevant. Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection of the German media theorist’s work, brings together essays that present Ernst’s controversial materialist approach to media theory and history. His insights are central to the emerging field of media archaeology, which uncovers the role of specific technologies and mechanisms, rather than content, in shaping contemporary culture and society.
Ernst, Wolfgang
Parikka, Jussi (editor)
University of Minnesota Press
http://www.upress.umn.edu
21 Dec. 2012
Webb, Kimberly
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E-Book
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