scholarly journals Preserving an emerging digital arts landscape: digital preservation at University of the Arts London

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Thurlow
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Digital Arts ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
The University

Digital technologies are affecting all aspects of modern life, with both art and libraries becoming more digital. This presents new opportunities for engagement, but also creates significant challenges to the long term future of our collections, due to the rapid changes in technology and the threat of digital obsolescence.This article will reflect on the ongoing work at the University of the Arts London (UAL) to preserve and provide access to the university's growing digital collections. Digital preservation is an emerging area of practice. What progress have we made so far and what does the future hold for our digital collections?

Integration of Digital Preservation Knowledge, Skills and Competencies in the Teaching Curricula of Library and Information Studies at the University of Botswana

Mousaion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thatayaone Segaetsho ◽  
Julie Moloi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
University Of Botswana ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Teaching Content ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
The University

In the past few decades, digital technology has found a place in the acquisition, arrangement, description, preservation, and dissemination of information. However, heritage institutions are perturbed by the challenges of digital preservation strategies particularly for education. Despite continuous investment in digital preservation, there are limited skilled professionals to equip learners with the knowledge, skills and competencies required to drive digital preservation in Botswana. Therefore, this paper investigated the knowledge, skills and competencies related to digital preservation in the teaching curricula of the Department of Library and Information Studies (DLIS) at the University of Botswana. Data collection was done through intensive structured interviews with specific educators who teach courses on digital preservation in the archives and records management stream. The study revealed that despite the fact that the educators in preservation courses are aware of current trends in digital preservation, most of them have not obtained formal degree certification specific to digital preservation. The findings further revealed that minimal digital preservation competencies are observed in the teaching curricula. A significant number of challenges observed illustrated mainly a lack of resources and limited skills in terms of practical demonstrations by educators. The curricula mostly lacked clarity on long-term and short-term digital preservation. The study recommends that DLIS and other institutions should conduct surveys or curriculum auditing on digital preservation in order to improve the teaching content. A significant number of shortcomings regarding digital preservation that could motivate further studies are also discussed under the conclusion and recommendations section of this study.

Digital Preservation

2022 ◽  
pp. 352-368
Author(s):  
Cahyo Trianggoro ◽  
Abdurrakhman Prasetyadi
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Previous Period ◽  
Data Preservation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
New Challenges

In recent decades, libraries, archives, and museums have created digital collections that comprise millions of objects to provide long-term access to them. One of the core preservation activities deals with the evaluation of appropriate formats used for encoding digital content. The development of science has entered the 4th paradigm, where data has become much more intensive than in the previous period. This situation raises new challenges in managing research data, especially related to data preservation in digital format, which allows research data to be utilized for the long term. The development of science in the 4th paradigm allows researchers to collaborate with and reuse research datasets produced by a research group. To take advantage of each other's data, there is a principle that must be understood together, namely the FAIR principle, an acronym for findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

Erin Espelie

2019 ◽  
pp. 275-294
Author(s):  
Scott MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
Lanthanide Series ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Short Films ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Artist/scientist Erin Espelie was trained at Cornell University as a biologist, but turned down opportunities to study biology at the graduate level at Harvard and MIT in order to explore the New York City theater scene, before finding her way into independent, “avant-garde” filmmaking, first exploring her interests in biology and the history of science in a series of short films, then producing the remarkable essay-film The Lanthanide Series (2014), which explores the importance of the “rare earths” (the elements with atomic numbers 57–71) for modern communication and informational technologies. The imagery for The Lanthanide Series was recorded, almost entirely, off the reflective surface of an iPad. In her work as a moving-image artist, Espelie combines poetry, science, environmental politics, and modern digital technologies within videos that defy traditional knowledge categories. She is currently editor in chief for Natural History magazine and a director of the NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Digital preservation practices in university libraries

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebele N. Anyaoku ◽  
Anthonia U. Nwabueze Echedom ◽  
Ebikabowei Emmanuel Baro
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of the study is to investigate the digital preservation practices in institutional repositories (IRs) in Africa. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from the IRs developed in university libraries in Africa, and it was done in two phases. The phases are website investigation to identify the university libraries in Africa that have developed IR and online questionnaire. Findings Results from the study showed that the majority of IRs in Africa used DSpace software to manage their digital contents, and more than half of the IRs engage in information migration. The study also revealed that the majority of the responding institutions provide long-term digital preservation in their IR. Interestingly, the majority of the IRs has developed digital preservation policy to guide the implementation of digital preservation for IR contents. Finally, the majority of the respondents indicated that they do not have long-term funding and lack the necessary technical staff with required skills to handle and manage the IR. Research limitations/implications Because of language barriers, data were collected from only universities in English speaking countries in Africa. Practical implications The findings of this study will make librarians in universities in Africa and other developing countries understand the key issues relating to digital preservation and longevity. Originality/value The findings of this study will inform information professionals, librarians in developing countries that are planning to create IRs and provide long-term digital preservation of electronic resources in their institution.

The story so far-digital preservation in institutional repositories

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Adjei ◽  
Monica Mensah ◽  
Eric Amponsah Amoaful
Keyword(s):  
Staff Development ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Adequate Funding ◽  
Long Term Preservation

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the standards, strategies, support and challenges of digital preservation in institutional repositories in academic libraries in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachThe research was qualitative. Data used for analysis were drawn from interviews with respondents selected purposively from eight Ghanaian academic libraries.FindingsA key finding of the study was that although the academic libraries had operational directions for digital preservation activities in the institutional repositories, available standards and practices for ensuring long-term preservation seem to be unsuitable.Research limitations/implicationsRecommendations based on findings included development of comprehensive digital preservation policies to provide mandate and direction to preservation of the libraries digital collections, development of disaster plans, adequate funding, staff development and support from management.Originality/valueThe study has demonstrated the need for academic libraries in Ghana to have and develop good digital preservation standards for sustaining the institutional repositories to help in realizing its benefits.

Chronicles in Preservation: Preserving Digital News and Newspapers

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Krabbenhoeft ◽  
Katherine Skinner ◽  
Matt Schultz ◽  
Frederick Zarndt
Keyword(s):  
Digital Preservation ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Metadata Extraction ◽  
File Formats ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
Digital News ◽  
The University ◽  
Digital Newspaper ◽  
The U.S

AbstractSince the mid-1990s, libraries and archives have been digitizing newspapers for preservation and access. The standards used for this work have evolved significantly. Today’s collections employ digitization, metadata extraction and standards, and file formats that are different from those used for early collections. Increasingly, libraries and archives also include borndigital material. Given the importance of newspapers as primary documents of history, libraries and archives must preserve their digitized and born-digital collections carefully. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)1 has funded the Chronicles in Preservation project to study the preservation readiness of digital newspaper collections. Led by the Educopia Institute (www.educopia.org), the project has brought together seven academic libraries in the U.S. and three distributed digital preservation (DDP) systems-MetaArchive, Chronopolis, and the University of North Texas’s Coda repository. These partners are accomplishing a range of activities. First, they investigated community standards, specifications, and practices for digital newspaper collections and distilled this information into a set of Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness. Second, they exported collections from libraries and ingested them into the DDP systems, documenting these test exchanges in a Comparative Anaysis of Distributed Digital Frameworks. Finally, the project is augmenting a set of existing digital preservation tools to simplify the packaging and exchange of digital newspaper collections. This paper provides a walkthrough of the structure and contents of the Guidelines for Preservation Readiness of Digital Newspapers, shares the evaluative metrics for the Comparative Analysis of Distributed Digital Preservation Frameworks, and discusses the implementations of the interoperability tools.

scholarly journals Endings: Concluding, Archiving, and Preserving Digital Projects for Long-Term Usability

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Claire Carlin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Preservation ◽  
The University

This report describes some of the practical solutions to the challenges of long-term digital preservation being developed by the project Endings: Concluding, Archiving, and Preserving Digital Projects for Long-Term Usability at the University of Victoria.

Online Through the Elements: The digital editions 'Das Himmlische Gastmahl' and 'Meerwunder' (University of Stuttgart) and their long term digital preservation Online durch die Elemente: Die Stuttgarter digitalen Editionen 'Das Himmlische Gastmahl' und 'Meerwunder' und ihre nachhaltige Sicherung im Netz

2020 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-89
Author(s):  
Nora Ketschik
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
The University

In this article, we present two digital editions published by the Department of Medieval Literature at the University of Stuttgart: 'Das Himmlische Gastmahl' (13 th century) and "Meerwunder" (15 th and 16 th century). Furthermore, we discuss ways to perpetually preserve and access the data, evaluating different approaches (e.g.URL, PDF) and demonstrating how to store the data externally (CLARIN-D). Vorgestellt werden zwei digitale Editionen und ihre Sicherung im Netz. 'Das Himmlische Gastmahl' (13. Jh.) und Fassungen des 'Meerwunders' (15./16. Jh.) wurden auf der Webseite der Stuttgarter Altgermanistik veröffentlicht. Ferner werden Lösungen für die dauerhafte Sicherung (u. a. URL und PDF) und die Überführung von Primärdaten in eine nachhaltig zugängliche Infrastruktur (CLARIN-D) gezeigt.

Digitization of Cultural Heritage

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadim Akhtar Khan ◽  
S. M. Shafi ◽  
Humma Ahangar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Heritage Collections ◽  
Over Time

The potential of digital technologies in safeguarding and preserving valuable assets have been established over time, predominantly in preserving our increasingly threatened heritage. Technological advancements in digitization and preservation aspects in the form of more sophisticated digitization gadgets have resulted in the practical implications of many digital preservation initiatives. The article discusses the concept of cultural heritage and need of digital preservation for managing and distributing cultural heritage collections through cooperative endeavors. It highlights the importance of incorporating technological advancements for managing effective and long-term cultural preservation projects. It points out various challenges concerning digital preservation initiatives for cultural heritage including financial, technical, policy guidelines, legal aspects and metadata concerns. The article further discusses some important digital preservation projects for managing Cultural Heritage and lists detailed features under each initiative for addressing various challenges.

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