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Thesis Poster: Increasing Awareness, Usage, And Knowledge Of Digital, Local History Materials In Urban Public New Jersey Libraries With Libraryboxen., Benjamin H. Saracco

Benjamin Saracco

Preserving Digital Collections- An Overview, Peter D. Verheyen

Peter D Verheyen

An introduction to digitization and digital preservation, assuming little or no background in protecting and ensuring access to both born digital and digitized collections, including text, images, and AV collections. The presentation provides an overview of the issues, standards for digitization, metadata, organization, sustainability. It also provides links to resources and tools to begin extending the useful life of digital library collections.

Ethnographic Video For Instruction And Analysis (Evia) Digital Archive [Review], Anne Shelley

Anne Shelley

The Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive Project (EVIA) is an online archive of worldwide collections of ethnographic field recordings that offers added-value features for the discovery, description, and analysis of video.

Preserving Social Media: Opening A Multi-Disciplinary Dialogue, Lisa P. Nathan, Elizabeth M. Shaffer

Elizabeth M. Shaffer

Digital artefacts generated through use of social media tools= have potential long-term value to individuals, organizations and societies. If there is a desire to systematically collect and preserve accounts of daily life, government activities, and societies’ documentary heritage, archival approaches must account for changing information systems—the tools, policies, and practices through which we engage in the contemporary information ecosystem. Through this paper we argue that in light of the growing complexity of digital information practices, particularly in relation to the use of social media, archivists need look to the scholarship of design and planning, in particular the work of human …

Circle: Developing Policies For Ubc's Digital Repository, Elizabeth M. Shaffer

Elizabeth M. Shaffer

A selection of InterPARES 3 Project case studies will be reported on, to share their digital preservation findings and products. Elizabeth Shaffer will present solutions developed for cIRcle, UBC's digital repository.

“Save It For Later: Considering New Approaches To Preservation Of Digital Cultural Heritage”, Dennis Moser

Dennis Moser

As our definitions of "culture" and "cultural heritage" are changing by our increased use of digital technologies, so to is the scope of collecting in Special Collections. Incumbent with this change are the methods whereby we actually identify, acquire and preserve the manifestations of our new digital culture. The growth in the use of virtual environments presents a new set of issues for documentation and preservation. This presentation examines several examples of how we might proceed in this new area, based on the examination of performance practice documentation (and the lack thereof!) in one of the more popular virtual environments …

"The Song Remains ... The Same? Three Case Studies Of Issues Of Digital Preservation In Second Life Performance Practices", Dennis Moser

Dennis Moser

The documentation of performance is neither new nor restricted to the Western world. One need only look elsewhere to see the impetus of sharing and passing along the essential elements of music and dance. As we move deeper and deeper into the digital expression of culture, we must grapple with new solutions for capturing and conveying these essentials. There are countervailing attitudes towards the documentation of the manifestation of the aesthetic experience. The emergence of “performance” art and “installation” art in the late 19th and 20th centuries have given impetus to a field of critical theory somewhat at odds with …

University Institutional Repositories: An Investigation Into Long-Term Preservation And Copyright Compliance, Elizabeth M. Shaffer

Elizabeth M. Shaffer

This poster presents a research project that explores the challenges presented to Institutional Repositories (IRs) by the requirements of long-term digital preservation and copyright compliance. IRs have been developed by universities throughout North America and Western Europe with the goals of preserving and making accessible the scholarly output of academic communities, including materials that range from publications to scientific data sets. However, the literature shows that these same institutions lag behind when it comes to policies and procedures for long-term preservation and the licensing of their contents. IRs face some serious challenges: How to ensure the long-term preservation of and …

Digital Preservation With Special Reference To The Open Archival Information System (Oais) Reference Model: An Overview, Sibsankar Jana, Mrinal Kanti Mondal, Ujjal Marjit

Sibsankar Jana

Libraries are engaged in the creating and marinating digital libraries all over world. A digital library that deals with data those are born digital as well as those that have been digitized from their analogue form. So there is a need to preserve digital resources for future use. Since the nature of digital data or resource is intangible and it cannot see in necked eyes so there is a need to preserve and organized them in such a way that we can get easily access to them. Developing preservation process for digital resources will require the integration of new methods, …