Challenges of digital preservation for cultural heritage institutions

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Evens ◽  
Laurence Hauttekeete
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Preservation

Open source software as a mature library system in Armenia

Infolib ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Anna Chulyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Efficient Organization ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
High Level

The article touches upon the importance of long-term digital preservation of Armenian cultural heritage through creation of digital repositories using Open-Source Software in Armenian libraries. The research highlights the advantages of Open-Source Software in context of providing free access to digital materials, as well as its high level of functionality in order to empower libraries with new technologies for more efficient organization and dissemination of information.

scholarly journals FrankenFRED: a custom digital forensics workflow and digital preservation lab for the Archives of Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanche Joslin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Implementation Plan ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Effective Use

Digital forensics allows cultural heritage institutions to validate, preserve, and recover digital objects. This thesis discusses the development and implementation of a custom digital forensics workflow for the Archives of Ontario. The justifications for the workflow are based on research into digital forensics, authenticity, diplomatics, and digital preservation. The workflow seeks to clarify best-practice policies and procedures for using a Digital Intelligence Forensic Recover of Evidence Device (FRED), an out-of-the-box digital forensics hardware solution. The Archive procured a FRED tower requiring an implementation plan and overall strategy for its effective use. Presented in this paper is a workflow built specifically for the needs of the Archives as well as justifications for the processes proposed within the workflow. The BitCurator processing environment is addressed as an integral tool for implementation. Also discussed are modifications made to the Archive’s FRED tower to produce what I have called FrankenFRED.

FrankenFRED: a custom digital forensics workflow and digital preservation lab for the Archives of Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanche Joslin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Implementation Plan ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Effective Use

Digital forensics allows cultural heritage institutions to validate, preserve, and recover digital objects. This thesis discusses the development and implementation of a custom digital forensics workflow for the Archives of Ontario. The justifications for the workflow are based on research into digital forensics, authenticity, diplomatics, and digital preservation. The workflow seeks to clarify best-practice policies and procedures for using a Digital Intelligence Forensic Recover of Evidence Device (FRED), an out-of-the-box digital forensics hardware solution. The Archive procured a FRED tower requiring an implementation plan and overall strategy for its effective use. Presented in this paper is a workflow built specifically for the needs of the Archives as well as justifications for the processes proposed within the workflow. The BitCurator processing environment is addressed as an integral tool for implementation. Also discussed are modifications made to the Archive’s FRED tower to produce what I have called FrankenFRED.

Representation of Socio-historical Context to Support the Authoring and Presentation of Multimodal Narratives: The Mingei Online Platform

2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Nikolaos N. P. Partarakis ◽  
Paraskevi P. D. Doulgeraki ◽  
Effie E. K. Karuzaki ◽  
Ilia I. A. Adami ◽  
Stavroula S. N. Ntoa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Iterative Design ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Human Centred Design

In this article, the Mingei Online Platform is presented as an authoring platform for the representation of social and historic context encompassing a focal topic of interest. The proposed representation is employed in the contextualised presentation of a given topic, through documented narratives that support its presentation to diverse audiences. Using the obtained representation, the documentation and digital preservation of social and historical dimensions of Cultural Heritage are demonstrated. The implementation follows the Human-Centred Design approach and has been conducted under an iterative design and evaluation approach involving both usability and domain experts.

scholarly journals Practical Limits to the Scope of Digital Preservation

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Kastellec
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Nested Model ◽  
Access Selection ◽  
Technological Limitations ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Shed Light

<p>This paper examines factors that limit the ability of institutions to digitally preserve the cultural heritage of the modern era. The author takes a wide-ranging approach to shed light on limitations to the scope of digital preservation.  The author finds that technological limitations to digital preservation have been addressed but still exist, and that non-technical aspects—access, selection, law, and finances—move into the foreground as technological limitations recede.  The author proposes a nested model of constraints to the scope of digital preservation and concludes that costs are digital preservation’s most pervasive limitation.</p>

Recording and Restoring the Color Texture and Geometric Information of Cultural Heritage

2013 ◽  
Vol 321-324 ◽  
pp. 1176-1180
Author(s):  
Jin Song Fan ◽  
Jun An
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Dynamic Range ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
High Dynamic Range ◽  
3D Scanning ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Range Image ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Texture Information ◽  
Color Texture

The main approaches currently used for digital preservation of historical architecture heritage are 3D scanning. These approaches have successfully realized the acquirement of 3D shapes of architectural heritages. But due to some critical constrains, they still cannot provide enough support for recording high quality color and texture information so far. In the mean time, large amount of information of point cloud acquired by 3D scanning also create big challenges for data processing and digital content utilization. We adopted an entirely new ways and techniques in the process of digital preservation of ancient buildings in Foshan Ancestral Temple & Donghuali area, which employed High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI), panoramic imaging, photogrammetry measurement to record geometry information together with accurate color texture information of cultural heritage. In addition, some practical applications of digital content were also carried out, which shows a promising future of our methods.

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