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Foreword by Nancy McGovern, Director of Digital Preservation, MIT Libraries
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. This book includes discussion of
- the internet of things;
- digital architecture;
- research data and collaboration;
- open source programming;
- privacy, memory, and transparency; and
- inheritance of digital media.
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About the authors Foreword Introduction PART I: MEMORY, PRIVACY AND TRANSPARENCY 1. Inheritance of digital media - Edina Harbinja2. Curbing the online assimilation of personal information - Paulan Korenhof3. The rise of computer-assisted reporting: challenges and successes - Brant Houston4. Link rot, reference rot and the thorny problems of legal citation - Ellie Margolis PART II: THE PHYSICAL WORLD: OBJECTS, ART AND ARCHITECTURE 5. The Internet of Things: the risks and impacts of ubiquitous computing - Éireann Leverett6. Accurate digital colour reproduction on displays: from hardware design to software features - Abhijit Sarkar7. Historical building information model (BIM)+: sharing, preserving and reusing architectural design data - Ju Hyun Lee and Ning Gu PART III: DATA AND PROGRAMMING 8. Preparing and releasing official statistical data - Natalie Shlomo9. Sharing research data, data standards and improving opportunities for creating visualisations - Vetria Byrd10. Open source, version control and software sustainability - Ildikó Vancsa Aftermath Index
"Kramer-Smyth expertly weaves together a multifaceted discussion of digital preservation challenges through the lens of ten subject matter experts whose backgrounds span legal studies, journalism, architecture and design, information security, statistics, and data visualization ... The intentional flexibility of the book's design allows chapters to be read individually, by section, in both linear and nonlinear fashions. I appreciate this approach to the volume's structure because it allows readers to peruse the chapter or chapters that interest them without losing the overall theme of the book."
— The American Archivist
Praise for the book:
"This collection of writings by scholars in information science, computer science and law goes beyond making a case for collaboration in digital preservation with experts outside the GLAM community. It inspires records and archives professionals to think about their own concepts and principles from different perspectives; to develop a deeper understanding of the issues they encounter in their own work; and to be creative in the way they look at the material in their care. This is why it is a must-read for any professional who is responsible for the digital future."
— Luciana Duranti, Professor of Archival Studies, The University of British Columbia
"This work introduces a refreshing and much needed approach to digital preservation. It tackles the contemporary societal themes that are deeply ingrained in digital records making and use, and from those it invites digital archivists and preservationists to think through solutions. By addressing the immediacy, the urgency and the many unforeseen consequences of digital information, each chapter reminds us of the need to evolve in theory and in practice dynamically in relation to technological and social changes."
— Maria Esteva, Data Curator, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin