The Rise and Fall of Text on the Web: A Quantitative Study of Web Archives
This study addresses the following research question: is the use of text on the World Wide Web declining? If so, when did it start declining, and by how much has it declined?
Information Research: An International Electronic Journal
The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective
“The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective: An international Perspective. Conference Proceedings is defined as a “collective of papers” published and released April 24th, 2002. These collective papers of text have many contributors coming from different backgrounds and countries. These leading experts come from the United States, the Netherlands, and Australia. They go into describing their different methods and processes that they go through in digital preservation. This is extremely valuable because leading experts from different parts of the globe practice different processes. This is an important set of text for readers to learn from because in order to grow as students we must be introduced to all types of methods in order to decide which ones would be most efficient and the proper way depending on the specific project the readers will be working on.
Meg Bellinger, Laura Campbell, Margaret Hedstrom, Deanna Marcum, Kenneth Thiboderu, Donal Waters, Titia van der Werf, Colin Webb,
Clara Pulido, Jacquelyn Curtin, Truc Duong
The State of Technology For Digital Archiving
This working document focuses on developing strategies, policies, and technologies necessary to ensure the longevity and integrity of digital publications. The goal for this text is to inform institutions on how to address the opportunities and challenges of the digital age so that the digital publications can be permanent and authoritative scholarly work. The main focus of the document is the technological dimensions of digital archiving. Not only does it provide an analysis of the current state of technologies, but also provides a prediction of the future state of the digital archive systems and how it will evolve over the next decade.The thesis essentially seeks to prove that technology does not promote a barrier to long term digital archiving, but rather creates opportunity to control the current and also future power of digital technologies so that they may form a future and substantial digital archiving strategy.
The Text Encoding Initiative: Flexible and Extensible Document Encoding
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.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The Ultimate Guide to Emulating Nintendo Systems
This book explains how emulating retro Nintendo consoles work, from the NES to the Nintendo Switch, and how the reader can participate in emulating these consoles so they can use it with their computer or smartphone.
The Value of Digital Archive Film History: Willingness to Pay for Film Online Heritage Archival Access.
In the day and age of digital art, the concept of paying for tangible in person art has been leaving the public’s perception. This concept is especially true for the film industry, specifically for digital archived film and film reels. The willingness to pay for digital archived film has significantly reduced in the public’s opinion. This article discusses the continuous use for how the framework for continuous digital archival work for film would work within a modern day society.
Lawton, Ricky N./ Fujiwara, Daniel/ Hotopp, Ulrike.
The Woman on the Other Side of the Wall: Archiving the Otherwise in Postcolonial Digital Archives
Postcolonial archives in theory and practice generally oppose traditional archival principles of open access. Indigenous cultures transmit knowledge according to local custom and do not conform to the Western, positivist hierarchical structure of institutional archives. Elizabeth Povinelli proposes to build a postcolonial digital archive of the native people of northwest Australia. In her article, she discusses the intellectual and ethical challenges that confront archivists when attempting to match tribal protocols of circulating and preserving traditional knowledge with digital media. Povinelli contends the open-access model of digital archives violates traditional barriers that indigenous societies erect to preserve and circulate traditional culture. She cites examples of modified algorithms and user-generated metadata in non-traditional digital archives and suggests adopting a tiered level of access for postcolonial archives. The resulting arrangement and access to content thereby respects local custom, although it may appear illogical or be inaccessible to the Western reader. Povinelli poses both ethical and ontological questions to digital archivists. Can digital media adapt to postcolonial archives without sacrificing and subverting the native society? Moreover, can the digital postcolonial archive, itself a challenge to the politically powerful and dominant institutional archives, maintain its purpose to halt the subjugation of the indigenous community? Such questions promote creative and critical innovation with rendering code, designing the interface, and adapting to the framework of a screen. However, even when constructed in accordance with native custom, Povinelli acknowledges that the power of the archive lies in its representation of truth, and as such, must continually be negotiated between archivist and the community represented.
Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
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Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse.
This anthology offers a comprehensive overview of theoretical approaches to cultural heritage institutions and digital media. Featuring authors from a broad variety of disciplinary fields, it aims at an international, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, professionals, and students. Rather than focus on methodology or technical implementation, the collection provides critical analyses of arguments and theories about the intersections of material and digital objects. Arguing that questions and doubts regarding technology and cultural heritage are part of a long-standing, ongoing discourse, the authors ask “what new understandings can be brought to bear on the relationship between digital and physical collections, artworks, and on the digital object.” Each article illuminates different aspects of the theme; drawing on examples in practice, such as photography and art, the authors examine how digitization bears upon abstract concepts of materiality, authenticity, authority, and representation.
Cameron, Fiona, and Sara Kenderdine, eds.
Thousands of Images, Now What: Painlessly Organize, Save, and Back Up Your Digital Photos
Tackle the challenges of digital photo file management! If you find yourself with more digital photos than you know what to do with or at a loss as to how to begin organizing them all, then Digital Asset Management (DAM) is your solution. This incredibly helpful book answers such common questions as: how should I manage the sheer volume of images? How can I make sure my pictures are safely backed-up? How can I efficiently categorize my images so that I can quickly find the one I'm seeking? Professional photographer and author Mike Hagen shows you how to organize, save, and back-up your digital photos by creating a filing and back-up system that are both efficient and effective. He walks you through the steps necessary to successfully maintain an orderly archiving system so that you can quickly store, save, and retrieve your images. Digital Asset Management (DAM) helps you organize, save, and back-up your digital photos Explains how to efficiently and effectively create an intuitive filing system that is right for you Answers frequently asked questions regarding storing, saving, and retrieving images Encourages you to create a successful digital photo archive that, once created, will be easy to maintain and use Say "so long" to your days of being a digital photo pack rat when you put this easy-to-understand, helpful book to use!
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James Purdy’s 2011 article builds on Susan Wells’ 2002 chapter "Claiming the Archive for Rhetoric and Composition,” in which Purdy discusses the importance of Wells’ previous “gifts” while extending and redefining it to include three new “gifts” afforded by emergent archiving technology: “integration”, “customization”, and “accessibility.” Purdy breaks the gift of integration into two key components; he suggests that the integration of the writing, and research space, and the integration of collaborative possibilities are both possible in new digital environments, allowing for new forms of creation, and interaction. Purdy describes that the customization of research spaces afforded by new digital archives are especially useful for novice academic researchers, and writers, but also offer the most advanced researchers new opportunities and conveniences such as the ability to save, bookmark, and access research from multiple sites and devices. Accessibility is defined as the ability for researchers to overcome “temporal and spatial” obstacles that restricted research prior to digital networks.