Building Digital Archives, Descriptions, and Displays: A how-to-Do-It Manual for Archivists and Librarians (How-to-Do-It Manuals for Libraries)
Subject
Digital humanities
Description
Noted archivist and library educator Frederick Stielow provides a comprehensive guide to efficiently adding content to the Web - and to creating Web-based descriptions and finding aids that will draw surfers to the library's, museum's, or other repository's Web site that houses them. All major digital approaches and languages - SGML, XML, and EAD (Encoded Archival Description) - as well as established descriptive standards such as the Dublin Core and Open URL are covered. Options for capturing images, sounds, and video resources and automated techniques for converting optical characters are explained step-by-step. As he did is his earlier critically acclaimed "Creating Virtual Libraries", Stielow provides much more than just technical guidance: he also discusses how to integrate digital archives (and their associated records) with turnkey library automation systems and provides a thorough discussion of policies regarding what to digitize and post. Here is the ideal primer for project management and the perfect general guide for managing digital archives.
Stielow, Frederick J. Building Digital Archives, Descriptions, and Displays: A How-to-do-it Manual for Archivists and Librarians. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2003.
During the research phase of History Detectives investigations, we rely on one tool more than any other: the digital image. We email them to experts, we enlarge them for details, and we use them to avoid handling originals any more than we must. Digital images are also used by the hundreds to illustrate the stories we tell. (Next time you watch an episode, count how many archival photos fly across the screen.) Over the course of eight seasons we’ve compiled a hulking digital archive. It’s invaluable to us, and it can be equally useful to anybody with a collection of old family photos.
Creator
The History Detectives Team
Publisher
PBS
Date
2010
Contributor
Johnson, Richard
Type
Web
Bibliographic Citation
The History Detectives Team. "DIY: Creating a Digital Archive." PBS. Accessed April 22, 2016.
This video showcases six presenters discussing the future of web archiving. Presenters include Stephen Abrams (California Digital Library), Martin Klein (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland) and Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University). Topics include preservation of web content and resolving archival access to the general public. Despite the advancements in web archiving there still remains many challenges. The presenters reflect not only on the present condition of web content, preservation, and access but also on its future progress. One major preservation concern going forward is the notion of the “personalized web.” With the ability to apply many filters, it is important to identify and collect the primary source materials.
Creator
Abrams, Stephen, Klein, Martin, Lin, Jimmy, Nelson, Michael
Publisher
Library of Congress
Date
2014-10-09
Contributor
Raible, John
Type
Webinar
Bibliographic Citation
“The Future of Web Archiving,” YouTube video, 1:08:06, posted by “LibraryofCongress,” October 9, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcsNuaZUa0.
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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."]]>2016-08-19T17:31:09+00:00
Title
Digital Humanities
Subject
Digital humanities
Description
"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."
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Additionally the website goes a step beyond simply giving goals and principles and gives two case studies; one in the loss of digital data and another for the study of data recovery. Both of these invaluable information for seasoned or budding archivists.]]>2016-08-17T23:24:30+00:00
Title
Guides to Good Practice
Subject
Web Archiving
Description
This website was designed and produced by the UK Archaeology Data Service and Digital Antiquity in the US over the course of a two-year collaborative project. Designed to be a guide for good standards to follow in the world of digital archiving, it outlines what digital archiving is, the goals a project should have as well as a list of principles for archiving digital data. These outlines will help to guide and keep a new project on its feet and on the right path instead of wavering and turning to a different and unrelated purpose.
Additionally the website goes a step beyond simply giving goals and principles and gives two case studies; one in the loss of digital data and another for the study of data recovery. Both of these invaluable information for seasoned or budding archivists.
Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works
Subject
Curation
Description
In order to see where we are going sometimes it becomes necessary to look back and review the steps we took to get to the place that we have landed today. The same thing goes for digital preservation. Charles Bailey notes and narrates previous curation methods used in over 600 English text restoration.
Creator
Bailey, Charles W.
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date
2012
Contributor
Faucette, Thomas
Type
Book
Identifier
ISBN:1477497692, 9781477497692
Bibliographic Citation
Bailey, Charles W. Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly WorksCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.2012. https://books.google.com/books?id=XcRhAwAAQBAJ&dq=archive+preservation&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (Second Edition)
Subject
Web archiving
Description
This book goes into depth on the workings of the Extensible Markup Language or XML. Including the structuring, both Logical and Physical, and the validation process and common constructs.
Creator
Bray, Tim, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, et al.
This article asks the question "What trace of our accomplishments will endure to be handed over to future generations?". It specifically focuses on the protection and preservation of digital assets. Archiving is not solely an institutional job, but should also take place in the computers of individuals. Everyone should take heed to protect and preserve their digital contributions on the web. This article emphasizes there is no time for complacency. Protection and preservation should take place right away. It also discusses the data security basics; how to use cloud computing to enhance security; cloud computing for the enterprise; knowing the terms of service; and lastly focuses on how to best enable disaster recovery for digital preservation.
Creator
Breeding, Marshall
Publisher
Computers In Libraries
Date
2013
Contributor
Polk, Victoria
Rights
Information Today Inc.
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Breeding, Marshall. "Digital Archiving In The Age Of Cloud Computing." Computers In Libraries 33.2 (2013): 22-26. Web. 11 May 2015.
Archiving websites: a practical guide for information management professionals
Subject
Web archiving
Description
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.
Creator
Brown, Adrian
Publisher
Facet Publishing
Date
2006
Contributor
Branch, Justin
Rights
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals 2009-2015.
Type
Book
Identifier
ISBN: 9781856045537
Bibliographic Citation
Brown, Adrian. Archiving Websites: A Practical Guide for Information Management Professionals. London: Facet Publishing, 2006. Print.
When the Present Web is Later the Past: Web Historiography, Digital History, and Internet Studies
Subject
Web Archiving
Description
This article argues for focus on preservation of the World Wide Web for future use by digital humanists and historians. It discusses the methods used to create web archives, as well as the limitations and problematic results of these methods. Its focus is not on providing preservation solutions, but on discussing the importance of web archiving and its methodological issues to incentivize improvement within the field.
Creator
Brügger, Niels
Publisher
Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Center for Historical Social Research
Date
2012
Contributor
Wolf, Casey
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Brügger, Niels. “When the Present Web Is Later the Past: Web Historiography, Digital History, and Internet Studies.” Historical Social Research 37, no. 4 (2012): 102–17. Accessed April 22, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41756477.