Partners for Preservation: Advancing Digital Preservation through Cross-Community Collaboration

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth

doi:10.29085/9781783303496

Who could be partners to archivists working in digital preservation? This book features chapters from international contributors from diverse backgrounds and professions discussing their challenges with and victories over digital problems that share common issues with those facing digital preservationists The only certainty about technology is that it will change. The speed of that change, and the ever increasing diversity of digital formats, tools, and platforms, will present stark challenges to the long-term preservation of digital records. Archivists are frequently challenged by the technical expertise, subject matter knowledge, time, and resource requirements needed to solve the broad set of challenges sure to be faced by the archival profession. Partners for Preservation advocates the need for archivists to recruit partners and learn lessons from across diverse professions to work more effectively within the digital landscape.Includes discussion of:the internet of thingsdigital architectureresearch data and collaborationopen source programmingprivacy, memory and transparencyinheritance of digital media.This book will be useful reading for professional archivists and others responsible for digital preservation, students of archival studies and digital preservation

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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dedication
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Contents
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List of figures and tables
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About the authors
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Foreword
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Introduction
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- By Jeanne Kramer-Smyth
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PART 1 - MEMORY, PRIVACY AND TRANSPARENCY
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1 - The inheritance of digital media
pp 3-24
- By Edina Harbinja, Temple University
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2 - Curbing the online assimilation of personal information
pp 25-44
- By Paulan Korenhof, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences as a researcher in legal technology.
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3 - The rise of computer-assisted reporting: challenges and successes
pp 45-60
- By Brant Houston, University of Missouri after being an award-winning investigative journalist for 17 years.
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4 - Link rot, reference rot and the thorny problems of legal citation
pp 61-78
- By Ellie Margolis, Temple University
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PART 2 - THE PHYSICAL WORLD: OBJECTS, ART AND ARCHITECTURE
pp 79-80
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5 - The Internet of Things: the risks and impacts of ubiquitous computing
pp 81-100
- By Eireann Leverett, Cambridge University
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6 - Accurate digital colour reproduction on displays: from hardware design to software features
pp 101-122
- By Abhijit Sarkar
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7 - Historical building information model (BIM)+: sharing, preserving and reusing architectural design data
pp 123-144
- By Ju Hyun Lee, University of Newcastle., Ning Gu, University of South Australia.
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PART 3 - DATA AND PROGRAMMING
pp 145-146
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8 - Preparing and releasing official statistical data
pp 147-166
- By Natalie Shlomo, University of Manchester.
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9 - Sharing research data, data standards and improving opportunities for creating visualisations
pp 167-184
- By Vetria Byrd, assistant professor of computer graphics technology and Director of the Byrd Data Visualization Lab in the Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University's main campus in West Lafayette, Indiana.
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10 - Open source, version control and software sustainability
pp 185-198
- By Ildiko Vancsa, started her journey with virtualisation during her university years and has been in connection with this technology in different ways since then.
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Final thoughts
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- By Jeanne Kramer-Smyth
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Index
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of figures and tables
pp ix-x

About the authors
pp xi-xvi

Foreword
pp xvii-xx

Introduction
pp xxi-xxviii

PART 1 - MEMORY, PRIVACY AND TRANSPARENCY
pp 1-2

1 - The inheritance of digital media
pp 3-24

2 - Curbing the online assimilation of personal information
pp 25-44

3 - The rise of computer-assisted reporting: challenges and successes
pp 45-60

4 - Link rot, reference rot and the thorny problems of legal citation
pp 61-78

PART 2 - THE PHYSICAL WORLD: OBJECTS, ART AND ARCHITECTURE
pp 79-80

5 - The Internet of Things: the risks and impacts of ubiquitous computing
pp 81-100

6 - Accurate digital colour reproduction on displays: from hardware design to software features
pp 101-122

7 - Historical building information model (BIM)+: sharing, preserving and reusing architectural design data
pp 123-144

PART 3 - DATA AND PROGRAMMING
pp 145-146

8 - Preparing and releasing official statistical data
pp 147-166

9 - Sharing research data, data standards and improving opportunities for creating visualisations
pp 167-184

10 - Open source, version control and software sustainability
pp 185-198

Final thoughts
pp 199-202

Index
pp 203-212

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