Advanced Digital Preservation
Archives
Great attention and focus has been made towards preserving physical documents, pages, and books. However, as we become more technologically advanced our attention has shifted. There is a great need for improvements and maintenance with regards to our now current text. These being electronic documents suchs as TIFFS, PDFs, XML/HTML Code, and many other forms of textual data that can be viewed on a computer or related storage device. This is where Advanced Digital Preservation methods come into play.
Giaretta, David.
Springer Science & Business Media
2011
Faucette, Thomas
Book
ISBN:3642168094, 9783642168093
The Text Encoding Initiative: Flexible and Extensible Document Encoding
Curation
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), an international collaboration aimed at producing a common encoding scheme for complex texts, examines the requirement for generality versus the requirement to handle specialized text types. The text also discusses how documents and users tax the limits of fixed schemes requiring flexible extensible encoding to support research and to facilitate the reuse of texts.
Barnard, David T.; Ide, Nancy M.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
1997-07
Allen, Amber
Journal Article
What is the TEI?
Curation
Discusses information about the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), a cooperative undertaking to define an encoding and interchange format for electronic texts. The text mentions the standards of TEI and what is expected by those who code. Later the text discusses and exemplifies the process of XML encoding and for what purposes encoding and markup could be used in order to improve the digital sphere and help simplify usability within digital archives.
Brown, Malcolm B.
Information Technology & Libraries
1994-03
Allen, Amber
Journal Article
The Implications of TEI
Curation
This article discusses the evolution of XML (digital markup language), and its ability to change the way in which the world works. In particular, the article discusses the importance of TEI and XML comparing the usefulness and usability to that of bar codes. He later mentions, and connects TEI's useful implications with the vast amount of metadata that it can present to a user.
Chang, Sheau-Hwang
OCLC Systems & Services
2001
Allen, Amber
Journal Article
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative.
Digital humanities
The Text Encoding Initiative website gives straightforward instruction and detailed documentation on TEI, a subset of the XML markup language. The site provides a downloadable version of the TEI P5 Guidelines that gives a comprehensive overview of how to use markup language to encode primary sources within archives to make them accessible on the Web. The website also contains customized variations of TEI markups based on the needs of various disciplines that can be downloaded or adapted for particular projects. By adopting this standard language, users can harness the power of search engines by encoding “machine-readable texts.”
The website also includes training resources, examples of how other institutions have implemented projects, and a wide variety of technical documentation. The TEI website is a valuable resource for learning and understanding the basics as well as the advanced application of text encoding and the broader XML language. Any digital practitioner developing their skill should make this one of their first studies.
TEI Consortium
Text Encoding Initiative
2015
Robert Clarke
Website
Creating Virtual Exhibitions from an XML-based Digital Archive
Curation
This paper presents a method for creating virtual exhibitions using source materials from the National Archives of Singapore. The organizational structure includes an introduction to virtual exhibits, the architecture and design of both the virtual exhibit system and the digital archive, and concluding with a discussion of the assembled product. This innovate approach allows a flexible user interface along with the reference and reuse gathering model for efficient retrieve of artifacts. The flexibility allows the presentation of the exactly same information in a variety of formats. This approach caters to the general public and advanced researchers alike. The customized appearance is controlled via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) which controls how the final product is rendered in HTML to the user.
Lim, Johanna Chua and Schubert, Foo
Journal of Information Science
2003-06-01
Raible, John
Journal Article
Research Data Access & Preservation Summit: Past Events
Archives
The Research Data Access & Preservation Summit is an annual conference hosted by the Association for Information Science and Technology. The past events page provides links to programs, and conference presentation slides from 2011-2013, and 2015 available on the presentation sharing platform Slideshare, offering a digital record of the persistent, evolving, and emerging discussions in the field of data management. Presentations from 2015 range from Carmen Caswell’s “Data Management Outreach for the Humanities: A University of Illinois at Chicago Case Study,” a basic overview of preservation methods and the culture of preservation at UIC, to John McGrory’s “Excel Archival Tool: Automating the Spreadsheet Conversion Process,” an introduction and demonstration of a tool he helped develop that automates the Excel data conversion process, avoiding the time consuming process of manually converting files and data formats while archiving massive Excel based data sets. There are also a series of presentations that discuss case studies, and considerations for making workflow plans to expedite and streamline archiving processes in institutional data repositories.
Association for Information Science and Technology
2015
Foley, Christopher
Website
Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives-Part 2 [and] MyLibrary: Personalized Electronic Services in the Cornell University Library [and] Creating Accessible Digital Imagery
Archives
Moore et al.’s “Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives” provides a brief view into the design and development of a persistent email archive that housed over a million messages, a project that offered students at Cornell personalized library services, and an effort to digitize a massive amount of images for a project in the UK. In the three associated articles, the authors break down their process of designing, and implementing a digital archiving system into four components: support for ingestion, archival storage, information discovery, and presentation of the collection. They define the ingestion process as the process of including, and documenting objects while “wrap[ping them] as XML digital objects,” and cataloguing them for future retrieval. The storage phase is broken down into similar stages where objects, collections, and containers are defined through the application of metadata. Their information discovery, and presentation stages involve the development of software, interfaces, referents, and representations for archived objects.
Moore, Reagan, Chaitan Baru, Arcot Rajasekar, Bertram Ludaescher, Richard Marciano, Michael Wan, Wayne Schroeder, and Amarnath Gupta
D-Lib Magazine
2000-04
Foley, Christopher
Journal Article
Metadata For A Web Archive: PREMIS And XMP As Tools For The Task
Web archiving
In this article the standards of metadata and tools are explored and questioned to see if they are the best options for ensuring protection and permanence of web archiving objects, such as snapshots of websites. The text questions whether the evolution of web interfaces can even be documented. Through studies it explores the possibility of encoding Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) within Adobe's eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP). And through their findings they found it is in part impossible to encode PREMIS within XMP. However the article does seek to find best practices related to metadata standards and tools that are relevant and useful for web archiving.
Romaniuk, Laurentia
Library Philosophy & Practice
2014
Polk, Victoria
Journal Article
New Challenges For The Archiving Of Digital Writing
Web archiving
This article focuses on the new challenges that have surfaced for the archiving of digital writing besides the already present challenge of the constant changing software and what strategies to use to conquer those challenges. Some strategies include microfilming born-digital media or the preservation of the plainest possible digital formats that still comprise the inherent values of the original such as transcoding the text files into American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), or the Portable Document Format (PDF). Another possible strategy is the conservation through replication of the original software and hardware and environment. This article greatly emphasizes on the backup of digital copies through replication, but more specifically through emulation--the imitation of obsolete hardware.
Zimmermann, Heiko
Clcweb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Wwweb Journal
2014
Polk, Victoria
©Purdue University
Journal Article