Digital Preservation Handbook
Digital Humanities
The purpose of the Digital Preservation Handbook is to guide scholars, archivists and communities on the importance of preserving their digital materials that they have collected. The handbook is online, so it is accessible to everyone who is seeking introduction to preservation and the purpose it holds for preserving digital sources. It focuses on the rapid increase of digital forms that are being published on the daily and the handbook is bringing awareness to these digital materials. The Handbook is a guide set for the long term in maintaining, creating and investing digital materials. Sources are complicated data and need to be handled with a lot of thought and patience. The Handbook explores preservation’s major topics and issues, and it helps others come up with strategic options on handling these problems. It is also important to know how to handle the practical tools in the process of preservation so there are no challenges faced.
Digital materials is a growing aspect in our culture, knowledge and economy that preserving information will benefit future generations. If there are no guides to help current digital communities on the importance of preservation, then future digital communities will fault in handling and preserving material.
Digital Preservation Coalition
Online Book
2020
Janet Jaimes
Building Companionship Between Community and Personal Archiving: Strengthening Personal Digital Archiving Support in Community-Based Mobile Digitization Projects
Personal Archives
In this article, the author presents the connection between personal digital archiving and community-based archiving and how they should work to assist one another. The author suggests that community-based projects can help provide flexibility and sustainability. Han uses an assessment of two community archive projects as an example to how they can support personal digital archive projects while maintaining long-term preservation and avoiding breaking their laid out objectives. The author proposes three ways community-based projects can help personal digital archives because Han believes collaboration between these groups is mutually beneficial and good for the community.
I believe this journal is an excellent addition to the archive because, beyond being recently published, it also presents ideas on how two aspects of archiving can connect and help one another. I think this is also important to consider in other ways archiving can cross over. The author’s connection between personal digital archiving and community-based archiving not only makes sense, but should be obvious. Encouraging community members to share their stories for their platform to be promoted by the community archive seems like an obvious idea. Han even includes how minorities who have been left out of archives can be considered and included in the future through their own archives.
Han, Ruohua
De Gruyter Saur
2019-03-25
Alexis Cosio
Online Journal
ISSN 2195-2965
Your Personal Archiving Project: Where Do You Start?
Personal Archives
This resource from the Library of Congress, a well-trusted and respected organization, is a valuable one to share. The message of this article is to those who archive, and, as the article states, everyone does eventually have to deal with archiving information at some point. Ashenfelder provides an easy to understand and relatable discussion on archiving and how to go about understanding it. He discusses concepts such as clumps, work time, and work space, providing somewhat of a plan for those being introduced to the archiving process. Ashenfelder also provides information on different types of media and how archiving changes for each of these mediums. The quest to simplify and emphasize the use of digital archives is what will progress the field of digital archiving into the future, and through the content of the article it is clear that Ashenfelder and the Library of Congress encourages such evolution of technology.
I think this resource is both well-worded and well-researched. Ashenfelder provides external discussion on archiving through the interviews and discussions with experts such as Kells and McAleer which strengthens the reader’s understanding of archiving. With less technical and more relative information, this is a very good resource for those starting out with archiving, either in their personal lives or their studies on the subject.
Ashenfelder, Mike
Library of Congress
2016-05-11
Meagan Roge
Online Journal
Linking Survey and Twitter Data: Informed Consent, Disclosure, Security, and Archiving
Web Archiving
In this academic journal, the authors discuss how the survey aspect of social media, Twitter in particular, presents an opportunity for a new way to collect data. It goes on to explain the complications in ethics that requires “a deeper understanding of the nature and composition of Twitter data to fully appreciate the risks of disclosure and harm to participants.” The authors discuss three studies and how they have to do with informed consent regarding archiving social media content. Due to the concern the information might not be meant to be shared, they discuss how to maintain ethics while keeping the nature of the shared information in mind in this discussion.
I found this journal to be informative regarding the ethics of media archiving with new considerations such as polls on Twitter and accounts that are not meaning to pander to the masses. I appreciate how the authors use recent studies to discuss the issue at hand. I like how it explores what the “good ethical practice” is in an archiving world that is constantly changing. I think even if the information changes over time, this will hold to be interesting as a piece of history. I believe what is “good ethical practice” will continue to shift and change, but this paper holds a piece of history as to what archivists believe to be ethical now.
Al Baghal, Tarek; Jessop, Curtis; Sloan, Luke; Williams, Matthew
Social Science Computer Review
2019-06-21
Alexis Cosio
Online Journal
Personal Archive Management with Digital Curation Concept on Students’ Smartphones
Personal Archives
This article houses a study that goes into the concept of digital curation on students’ smartphones. This is a recent study that emphasizes the importance of modern-day evaluations of technology and archiving resources that are made available to students and the general population. The study starts by stating that digital curation is a vital aspect of digital archiving and then expands on this idea by examining how students use these curation concepts to archiving their content. This is done through the use of MIP students using MRA records to manage, or not effectively manage, their digital archives within their smartphones. The results of their findings show that each individual is different and unique in their archival methods. This leads me to believe that a more user-centered model is necessary for the evolution of widely used archiving models within smartphones.
I found this study to be extremely relevant to the new wave that digital archiving has taken with the advancement of the smartphone and cloud-like programs within them. Now that this archiving software is being made public to the general population, for archivists to fully understand and be able to improve on digital archives, they must also take smartphones and their archival systems into account.
Sembiring, Santana
Khairunnisa, Khairunnisa
Kurnia, Leila
Universitas Airlangga
2019-12-22
Meagan Roge
Online Journal
DOI: 10.20473/rlj.V5-I2.2019.194-206
Building digital archives: Design decisions: A best practice example
Curation
This conference by Meyer et al discusses the concept of digital archive building and the best methods to, “search for an applicable and adequate data or document model [and] software tools which meets the requirements” (Meyer et al) of making digital library applications. Within their conference, they explained how there is not an ideal document model or system, there is not a “one-size-fits-all” (Meyer et al), but that each document model or system is unique to the information that is being digitally archived. This conference goes in-depth on the technical implementation of aspects of a digital archive, factors that will ultimately determine the sustainability and the maintenance of the archive. These ideas are all included within the “digital archive project DARL (Digitales Archiv Rostocker Liederbuch, engl.)” (Meyer et al).
I found the information found within this conference pertinent to the overall understanding of a digital archive. I think that it can be easy to lose sight of how archives, while they have the same goal and purpose, are all unique and, thus, made differently. Understanding how an archive is made is extremely important and this resource helps readers to understand the technical side of design decisions that impact an archive in big ways.
Meyer, Holger
Bruder, Ilvio
Finger, Andreas
Heuer, Andreas
IEEE
2015-01-06
Meagan Roge
Presentation
DOI: 10.1109/ETTLIS.2015.7048172
Perspectives on personal digital archiving / National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress.
Digital preservation
A guide addressed to the general public concerning the practices surrounding personal digital archiving. This eBook contains information regarding proper personal archiving procedure, personal essays reflecting on personal digital archiving, and resources for personal digital archiving outreach.
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.), author.
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress
2013
Ramos, Madison
English
eBook
OCLC: 836829773
Accession Number: ucfl.031945942
Database: UCF Libraries Catalog
The Post-Truth Archive: Considerations for Archiving Context in Fake News Repositories
ethics
In a modern media environment in which fake news is widely disseminated amongst the public and previously trusted media sources are viewed with suspicion, those in the archival profession are tasked with finding methods with which fake news can be preserved. The value in preservation lies in cultural context, which, conversely, remains the as the most daunting issue archivists face in this subject. This article considers the obstacles involving archiving fake news that differ from the archiving of any other piece of information, namely, the need for an archive to include enough sources to create enough context for future contributors and researchers to understand the items preserved.
Commisso, Corrie
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture
October 2017
Ramos, Madison
English
Article
ISSN: 21952957
DOI: 10.1515/pdtc-2017-0010
Data Archiving
Archives
Data Archiving discusses how science depends on good data. Most data are central to the understanding of the natural world. The results of the study, when published, the data on which those results were based are sometimes stored unreliably. The subject of loss can occur because of hard drive failure. Also, it can be because of hard drive failure, and it might be the research for getting the specific details required to use the data. For the broader community, most data are never available, which can be even after publication of the results. It also explains how the data, even after the main results for which they were collected, are published, are invaluable to science, for meta-analysis, new uses, and quality control. Necessary summary statistics are often not published. The study is only used if the original data are available to the meta-analysts. Data can be used in ways beyond the questions that sparked its collection. Error checking, making science more peon, and letting us more rapidly reach accurate conclusions can happened because of the availability of data of published studies. It even explains why data are adequately archived are saved for posterity.
This article has a well-detailed explanation of how science depends. It brings up various examples such as GenBank, which shows the value of availability of data for all those above reasons.
Whitlock Michael C., McPeek Mark A., Rausher Mark D., Rieseber Loren, and Morre Allen J,
The University of Chicago Press for The American Society of Naturalists
2010-02
Stephen Taggart
Online Journal
Perspectives on personal digital archiving / National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress.
Personal Archiving
The book contain different blogs and articles that all give different tips and guides on how to properly obtain items for a digital archive, such as the quality of photos and online message and how to make them fit for preservation. Some of the passages also go into detail on a few challenges that come up during digital archiving, why preservation is important, as well as some solutions on the matter. This book pertains more towards the improved conditions of personal archiving, which is why the articles and blogs that were chosen have a bigger focus on improving the quality and resolution of the photos you take, as well as talking about how you can archive the text messages within your phone. This kind of archiving could be more targeted for the use of preserving family photos, such as cherished holiday moments or special occasions, or photos of a loved one who has passed away. It also goes through different methods of digitizing the photos that you have through the use of scanning, and storage methods such as the use of the Cloud. Despite it being on the personal level, this approach to digital archiving can be effective in the sense that it allows us to preserve our own documents and images, the smaller things that archivists might have glossed over, helping preserve our heritage.
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.)
2013
Gonzalez, Sean
Book/eBook