Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.1080/13614576.2015.1113037
A. Corns, L. Kennedy
The EU co-funded project Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe (ARIADNE) aims to integrate data and services across Europe for the archaeological research community. The Discovery Programme has investigated data holdings and management practices in Irish archaeology, focusing on what information is available in physical and digital forms, approaches to preservation and accessibility, and the challenges and opportunities around dataset networking with Irish archaeological data. While significant work will be required to enable the accessibility expected by researchers now and in future, there is also an opportunity to approach the challenges of digital preservation as a community.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.1080/13614576.2015.1114828
Marcel Ras, B. Sierman
This article describes the developments in The Netherlands to establish a national Network for Digital Heritage. This network is based on three pillars: to make the digital heritage visible, usable, and sustainably preserved. Three working programs will have their own but integrated set of dedicated actions in order to create a national infrastructure in The Netherlands, based on an optimal use of existing facilities. In this article the focus is on the activities related to the sustainable preservation of the Dutch national digital heritage. 1 On 21 May 2007, a group of organizations took the initiative to set up a coalition to address the problem of digital preservation in The Netherland in a collaborative way. This coalition of the willing became a foundation in 2008 with its mission to establish an infrastructure (organizational and technical) that guarantees long-term access to digital information in The Netherlands.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.1080/13614576.2015.1114831
T. Kálmán, D. Tonne, O. Schmitt
DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) aims to support digitally-enabled research across the arts and humanities. The activities and service portfolios are centered around communities to enable transnational, interdisciplinary research. One of the most important goals of DARIAH is the sustainable research data management. Although widely-acknowledged standards and best practices are utilized for essential long-term storage components, offering an interoperable technological solution is challenging due to the heterogeneity of the tools and data. In this article, we analyze these problems, discuss a general concept for long-term storage in DARIAH, and present two implementations of the corresponding preservation services.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.1080/13614576.2015.1114825
N. Mauthner, Judit Gárdos
Following Derrida (1995), our article explores the relationship between archival practices and archival documents on the assumption that “archivization produces as much as it records the event” (Derrida 1995, 17). On this approach, archival practices are understood as non-innocent practices that, in the act of “preservation,” help make specific “memories” at the expense of others (Barad 2007; Derrida 1995; Foucault 1972). We take up this issue in relation to the curation of social science quantitative research data and argue that the ontological identity of data is constituted through historically- and culturally-specific data curation practices including data cleaning, data anonymization, and metadata preparation.
{"title":"Archival Practices and the Making of “Memories”","authors":"N. Mauthner, Judit Gárdos","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1114825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1114825","url":null,"abstract":"Following Derrida (1995), our article explores the relationship between archival practices and archival documents on the assumption that “archivization produces as much as it records the event” (Derrida 1995, 17). On this approach, archival practices are understood as non-innocent practices that, in the act of “preservation,” help make specific “memories” at the expense of others (Barad 2007; Derrida 1995; Foucault 1972). We take up this issue in relation to the curation of social science quantitative research data and argue that the ontological identity of data is constituted through historically- and culturally-specific data curation practices including data cleaning, data anonymization, and metadata preparation.","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1114825","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60361169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.1080/13614576.2015.1114823
Bethany G. Anderson, Fynnette Eaton, S. Schwartz
The digital revolution has changed the daily work of archivists. As a result, archivists have refined their analog practices and initiated new ones to accommodate the unique information creation and access needs of users. While limitless storage and technological obsolescence may be surmountable challenges, appraisal continues to be a necessary component of this preservation enterprise. Macro-appraisal—a top-down functional assessment of an organization’s high-level decision making that defines the enduring value of specific bodies of documentary evidence of these creative or administrative processes—is used to facilitate the management of diverse bodies of born-digital records in archives and special collections.
{"title":"Archival Appraisal and the Digital Record: Applying Past Tradition for Future Practice","authors":"Bethany G. Anderson, Fynnette Eaton, S. Schwartz","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1114823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1114823","url":null,"abstract":"The digital revolution has changed the daily work of archivists. As a result, archivists have refined their analog practices and initiated new ones to accommodate the unique information creation and access needs of users. While limitless storage and technological obsolescence may be surmountable challenges, appraisal continues to be a necessary component of this preservation enterprise. Macro-appraisal—a top-down functional assessment of an organization’s high-level decision making that defines the enduring value of specific bodies of documentary evidence of these creative or administrative processes—is used to facilitate the management of diverse bodies of born-digital records in archives and special collections.","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1114823","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60360958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.1080/13614576.2015.1110399
Panagiotis Papageorgiou
Through the Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS), leading researchers and practitioners have managed to propose strategies for preserving digital art and computer games. The same is not true for the preservation of archaeological visualizations. This article therefore discusses the following question: “Can emulation be employed to effectively preserve obsolete computer visualizations from the Archaeology domain?” Guidelines and test results coming from this work would be of great benefit to the archaeological community, and would contribute knowledge to other research communities, specifically those interested in similar data types/3D visualizations.
{"title":"Toward a Conceptual Emulation Framework for the Preservation of Archaeological 3D Visualizations","authors":"Panagiotis Papageorgiou","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1110399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1110399","url":null,"abstract":"Through the Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS), leading researchers and practitioners have managed to propose strategies for preserving digital art and computer games. The same is not true for the preservation of archaeological visualizations. This article therefore discusses the following question: “Can emulation be employed to effectively preserve obsolete computer visualizations from the Archaeology domain?” Guidelines and test results coming from this work would be of great benefit to the archaeological community, and would contribute knowledge to other research communities, specifically those interested in similar data types/3D visualizations.","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1110399","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60359602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.1080/13614576.2015.1116322
Natalie Harrower, B. Heravi
Reflecting on a feasibility study into archiving social media, this article traces how “events” are defined in various domains and contexts, and employs case studies to analyze key relationships between hashtags and events to provide a critical analysis of how archival events can be constructed out of social events. It provides an overview of the archival and curatorial considerations involved in defining and preserving a social media event, and outlines the technologies developed for the process of collecting, annotating, and preserving social media events. Overall, the article endeavors to reveal how pragmatic considerations, computational approaches and curatorial perspectives shape digital archives and historical narratives. Color versions of one or more of the figures in the article can be found online at www.tandfonline.com/rinn.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.1080/13614576.2015.1114838
J. Carroll
Codes of ethics reflect the core values of an organization; with the variety of data, staff, and contributors working with the DRI, its ethical code must be wide-ranging enough to reflect its diverse nature, but specific enough to effectively guide the reader to a morally sound conclusion in the face of an ethical problem. Reviewing the reasons for a code of ethics, the methods involved, the challenges, the expected outcomes, and organizational input, this article will relay the experience of writing a professional code of ethics for the Digital Repository of Ireland.
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