scholarly journals ContextMiner: Supporting the Mining of Contextual Information for Ephemeral Digital Video Preservation

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chirag Shah
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Digital Videos ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Information Media ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Emerging information media present new challenges to the curators. While archiving objects, and building meaningful collection for long-term preservation and access, have been well-understood practice for centuaries, digital objects present new issues. In the previous article (Shah, 2009) I identified a number of these issues related to digital objects, specifically digital videos of an ephemeral nature. I argued that while preserving such objects, adding contextual information is essential. One of the interesting challenges is to identify what to collect and preserve as contextual information. For ephemeral digital videos, I proposed to harvest four kinds of relevances and five kinds of contexts. In order to implement this proposal, I presented ContextMiner, a framework and a system to support digital video curation. In this article, I will take a closer look at ContextMiner, analyzing it for its functionalities and usability. This is done by usability inspection and content analysis. For the former, we simulated two curatorial tasks, asked our users (curators) to use ContextMiner, and provide us feedback on its usability and functionalities. For the latter, we mined a collection prepared by ContextMiner for its potential usage in preservation. Finally, I have summarized the lessons learned from developing and using our system, providing implications for digital library curators interested in collecting and preserving digital objects of an ephemeral nature.   

scholarly journals Emulation: From Digital Artefact to Remotely Rendered Environments

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Von Suchodoletz ◽  
Jeffrey Van der Hoeven
Keyword(s):  
Operating Systems ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Computer Environment ◽  
Digital Artefact ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Emulation used as a long-term preservation strategy offers the potential to keep digital objects in their original condition and experience them within their original computer environment. However, having just an emulator in place is not enough. To apply emulation as a fully fledged strategy, an automated and user-friendly approach is required. This cannot be done without knowledge and contextual information of the original software. This paper combines the existing concept of a view path, which captures the contextual information of software, together with new insights into improving the concept with extra metadata. It provides regularly updated instructions for archival management to preserve and access its artefacts. The view-path model requires extensions to the metadata set of the primary object of interest and depends on additionally stored secondary objects for environment recreation like applications or operating systems. This article also addresses a strategy of rendering digital objects by running emulation processes remotely. The advantage of this strategy is that it improves user convenience while maximizing emulation capability.

scholarly journals Mining Contextual Information for Ephemeral Digital Video Preservation

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chirag Shah
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Digital Videos ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Audio Video

For centuries the archival community has understood and practiced the art of adding contextual information while preserving an artifact. The question now is how these practices can be transferred to the digital domain. With the growing expansion of production and consumption of digital objects (documents, audio, video, etc.) it has become essential to identify and study issues related to their representation. A cura­tor in the digital realm may be said to have the same responsibilities as one in a traditional archival domain. However, with the mass production and spread of digital objects, it may be difficult to do all the work manually. In the present article this problem is considered in the area of digital video preservation. We show how this problem can be formulated and propose a framework for capturing contextual infor­mation for ephemeral digital video preservation. This proposal is realized in a system called ContextMiner, which allows us to cater to a digital curator's needs with its four components: digital video curation, collection visualization, browsing interfaces, and video harvesting and monitoring. While the issues and systems described here are geared toward digital videos, they can easily be applied to other kinds of digital objects.

scholarly journals Practical Remote Workflow Solutions for Complex Digital Projects: Opportunities in a Pandemic

Collections ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 155019062110527
Author(s):  
J.A. Pryse
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
The Political ◽  
Workflow Model ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Pilot Phase ◽  
Digital Videos ◽  
On Line ◽  
Systematic Solution ◽  
Long Term Preservation

The spread of COVID-19 has created numerous challenges in the field of archive management. Limited in-house office space, furloughs of personnel, and inconsistency, has highlighted the potential for the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center Archives (Center) to develop and implement improved accessibility measures to thousands of linear feet of material. Addition ally, the Center has found unique opportunities to collaborate with multiple academic institutions to propose large-scale digitization program exhibitions using the Center’s remote workflow model. One of the largest, most complex collections the Center has worked with during this time is the Political Commercial Collection (the Collection), which holds 119,000 film, audio, and videotape recordings of commercials aired between 1936 and present. It is the largest collection of political commercials in the world. The Center has developed a working pilot digitization project that has currently resulted in access to 16,000 digital videos for public researchers and over 10,000 available for on-line streaming during the pilot phase between April 16, 2020, and December 1, 2020. This paper presents the practical application of the Center’s simplified “Linear Reciprocity Workflow Model” to provide a systematic solution for digital and long-term preservation of complex collections. The Center has proven that limited personnel and reduced resources need not interrupt continued access to archival repositories.

scholarly journals Letter to the Editor: Authentic Digital Objects

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Andrew Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Rich Source ◽  
Digital Certificate ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Letter Writer ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Long-term preservation of digital objects requires curators to be able to guarantee the archival authenticity of the objects in a digital repository. In IJDC 4(1), Ronald Jantz suggested that a digital certificate is sufficient to ensure authenticity. The letter writer takes issue with this view and points out some of the archival misinterpretations in the Jantz article. He maintains that the archival literature is a rich source for discussions of authenticity that has been ignored to the detriment of Jantz’s arguments.

scholarly journals ASSESSING FAMILY CARE CONFERENCES IN LONG-TERM CARE: LESSONS LEARNED FROM CONTENT ANALYSIS

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 254-255
Author(s):  
P.M. Durepos ◽  
S. Kaasalainen ◽  
S. Tamara ◽  
J. Ploeg ◽  
D. Parker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Term Care

scholarly journals Management, Appraisal and Preservation of Electronic Records: the Belarusian Experience

Atlanti ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Andrei Rybakou
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Electronic Records ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Long Term Preservation

The article is devoted to the new challenges that archives faced during the last twenty years: how to manage E-records, what are the principles and criteria of their appraisal, how to transfer the most valuable E-records to archives and to insure their long-term preservation. The author discovers the solutions of the mentioned problems implemented in the national legislation, reveals the techniques and practices used. In spite of the huge number of legislative acts the problems still remain. The author notes that archivists in their work with Erecords strongly depend upon the hardware and software used for creating and operating E-records, but that does not mean they should stay outside the process. They should feel free to state their demands and to warn about the danger of loss of documents and information if ignored. The quality solutions of the problems are possible only on the basis of close cooperation of records managers, archivists and specialists in the sphere of information technologies.

An analysis of file format control in institutional repositories

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miquel Termens ◽  
Mireia Ribera ◽  
Anita Locher
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
File Formats ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Metadata Harvesting ◽  
Open Archives ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
Open Archives Initiative

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the file formats of the digital objects stored in two of the largest open-access repositories in Spain, DDUB and TDX, and determines the implications of these formats for long-term preservation, focussing in particular on the different versions of PDF. Design/methodology/approach – To be able to study the two repositories, the authors harvested all the files corresponding to every digital object and some of their associated metadata using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) protocols. The file formats were analyzed with DROID software and some additional tools. Findings – The results show that there is no alignment between the preservation policies declared by institutions, the technical tools available, and the actual stored files. Originality/value – The results show that file controls currently applied to institutional repositories do not suffice to grant their stated mission of long-term preservation of scientific literature.

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