scholarly journals A 21st Century Technical Infrastructure for Digital Preservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Tallman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Fortune 500 ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Commercial Sector ◽  
Fortune 500 Companies ◽  
And Function ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Digital preservation systems and practices are rooted in research and development efforts from the late 1990s and early 2000s when the cultural heritage sector started to tackle these challenges in isolation. Since then, the commercial sector has sought to solve similar challenges, using different technical strategies such as software defined storage and function-as-a-service. While commercial sector solutions are not necessarily created with long-term preservation in mind, they are well aligned with the digital preservation use case. The cultural heritage sector can benefit from adapting these modern approaches to increase sustainability and leverage technological advancements widely in use across Fortune 500 companies.

scholarly journals The use of metadata systems for the preservation of digital records in cultural heritage institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Tlou Maggie Masenya
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
South African ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Global Access ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Many studies concur that most of the world’s heritage resources, including digital records, are highly vulnerable to loss, and some cannot be recovered due to neglect or mismanagement. Strategies are thus needed to ensure long-term preservation and global access to digital records of enduring value. Metadata systems have been regarded as a suitable strategy to support digital preservation processes and prevent digital records loss within cultural heritage institutions. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the adoption of metadata systems in cultural heritage institutions in South Africa. This study utilised literature review to critically examine the use of metadata systems for the preservation of digital records in cultural heritage institutions. Although various preservation systems and strategies are being developed to enable description, discovery and delivery of digital records, the findings revealed that South African cultural heritage institutions’ level of metadata system adoption is low. This is due to lack of awareness about metadata schemas and standards, lack of technical expertise, inadequate funding and lack of technological infrastructure. Several recommendations are made to enhance preservation of digital records, including increasing awareness and the implementation of metadata systems, schemas and policies.

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 A Sample Book Of Late 20th And Early 21st Century Expired Silver Gelatin Photographic Papers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne R. Guillemette
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Visual Identification ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Long Term Preservation

In this applied thesis project, a sample booklet of various expired silver gelatin papers is created. Specific information on the use of expired photographic papers by contemporary photographers is discussed as well as insights from collection caretakers (collection managers/archivists/conservators) on the possible implications that printing with expired silver gelatin papers may have for the long-term preservation of photographic works. The major contribution of this thesis is to create and gain a better understanding of tools that can be used in the characterisation and identification of expired silver gelatin papers. It is also to demonstrate that a tactile tool such as the sample booklet can assist in identifying various deterioration events. I feel that it is important to have a hands-on source that can be used independently or collectively with other sources such as web-based visual identification tools. The booklet will be useful as an educational tool for students, collection care takers, as well as professionals in the photographic field.

scholarly journals Towards A Knowledge Model Bridging Technologies And Applications In Cultural Heritage Documentation

2014 ◽  
Vol II-5 ◽  
pp. 81-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Boochs ◽  
A. Trémeau ◽  
O. Murphy ◽  
M. Gerke ◽  
J.L. Lerma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Model ◽  
Measuring Techniques ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
Key Questions

This paper documents the formulation of an international, interdisciplinary study, on a concerted European level, to prepare an innovative, reliable, independent and global knowledge base facilitating the use of today’s and future optical measuring techniques for the documentation of cultural heritage. Cultural heritage professionals, color engineers and scientists share similar goals for the documentation, curation, long-term preservation and representation of cultural heritage artifacts. Their focus is on accuracy in the digital capture and remediation of artefacts through a range of temporal, spatial and technical constraints. A shared vocabulary to interrogate these shared concerns will transform mutual understanding and facilitate an agreed movement forward in cultural heritage documentation here proposed in the work of the COST Action Color and Space in Cultural Heritage (COSCH). The goal is a model that captures the shared concerns of professionals for a standards-based solution with an organic Linked Data model. The knowledge representation proposed here invokes a GUI interface for non-expert users of capture technologies, facilitates, and formulates their engagement with key questions for the field.

STRUCTURAL CONCEPTS IMPLEMENTED WHILE SURVEYING BUILDINGS OF HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Todorov ◽  
Mihail Todorov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Full Study ◽  
World Cultural Heritage ◽  
Complex Engineering ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Long Term Preservation

The study of cultural heritage is a multidisciplinary challenge. Working in this area meets a number of peculiarities, which put emphasis on a full study of the elements of the natural environment, as well as the need for brilliant techniques of construction to be used. The detailed studies of the monuments characteristics in a series of engineering areas over the last decade have led us to the conclusion that the creators of these monuments have achieved an important characteristic of their creations – securing their durability. From an engineering standpoint, the examples are valuable in terms of materials as well as the choice of a structural solution as their most important feature. In several sites with world cultural heritage status-the conservation and impact of the monument in the perspective of eternal longevity have been studied, while analyzing construction and the overall vision of the builders to the specific creation. It is these aspects that are the subject of research and it turns out that their role in preserving the monument is extremely important. This publication examines two monuments with extremely distinctive characteristics, requiring complex engineering research and thorough knowledge of natural and anthropogenic materials and their application in the construction techniques of the past. This is an example, and a basis for adequate solutions with an approach for long-term preservation of the structures.

scholarly journals A Sample Book Of Late 20th And Early 21st Century Expired Silver Gelatin Photographic Papers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne R. Guillemette
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Visual Identification ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Long Term Preservation

In this applied thesis project, a sample booklet of various expired silver gelatin papers is created. Specific information on the use of expired photographic papers by contemporary photographers is discussed as well as insights from collection caretakers (collection managers/archivists/conservators) on the possible implications that printing with expired silver gelatin papers may have for the long-term preservation of photographic works. The major contribution of this thesis is to create and gain a better understanding of tools that can be used in the characterisation and identification of expired silver gelatin papers. It is also to demonstrate that a tactile tool such as the sample booklet can assist in identifying various deterioration events. I feel that it is important to have a hands-on source that can be used independently or collectively with other sources such as web-based visual identification tools. The booklet will be useful as an educational tool for students, collection care takers, as well as professionals in the photographic field.

scholarly journals The long decade of digital preservation in heritage institutions in the Czech Republic: 2002–2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-183
Author(s):  
Jan Hutař ◽  
Marek Melichar
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
User Requirements ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Long Term Preservation

This paper aims to give state-of-the-art information about digital preservation activities in the Czech Republic during the last decade to an English-speaking audience. We briefly describe major phases of the “digital” projects. These were mainly in libraries, with some references to museums, galleries and archives. We focus on aspects related to the preservation of collected born-digital and digitised content. Even now, digital preservation activities in heritage institutions are often on the periphery of the interest of all stakeholders and the infrastructure supporting digital preservation of data in heritage institutions is not well financed or coordinated. Even though the “long decade”, which lasted from the dramatic events of 2002 until approximately 2014, saw a number of successful projects creating digital data in Czech libraries, the handful of projects which were in part focused on digital preservation were not flexible enough to accommodate user requirements and were failing to meet expectations. There is still much room for further development in the area of long-term preservation of digital data in the Czech Republic. This article is a shortened version of one of the analyses written under the “Strategy of the research, development and innovation for the years 2010–2015” program of the Moravian Library in Brno, Czech Republic.

Re-Animating Greg Lynn's Embryological House: A Case Study in Digital Design Preservation

Leonardo ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Bird ◽  
Guillaume LaBelle
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Media Arts ◽  
Digital Architecture ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Greg Lynn's Embryological House was an early work of digital architecture: a work in which the computer was a fundamental part of the design process. It was the subject of a case study in digital preservation by the Daniel Langlois Foundation's project for the Documentation and Conservation of Media Arts Heritage (DOCAM) and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). Research identified characteristics of digital architectural artifacts that are key to their long-term preservation. The results imply a shift in the focus of preservation from the artifact to its transformation in a digital context and a re-evaluation of preservation strategies and principles.

Non-Invasive Characterization for Long-Term Preservation of Cultural Heritage

2011 ◽  
Vol 1319 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. G France
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Spectral Response ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Imaging Systems ◽  
Response Monitoring ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Characterization Of Materials ◽  
Long Term Preservation

ABSTRACTDevelopments in non-invasive analytical techniques advance the preservation of cultural heritage materials by identifying and analyzing substrates and media. Spectral imaging systems have been used as a tool for non-invasive characterization of cultural heritage, allowing the collection of chemical identification information about materials without sampling. The Library of Congress has been developing the application of hyperspectral imaging to the preservation and analysis of cultural heritage materials as a powerful, non-contact technique to allow non-invasive characterization of materials, by identifying and characterizing colorants, inks and substrates through their unique spectral response, monitoring deterioration or changes due to exhibit and other environmental conditions, and capturing lost and deteriorated information. The resulting image cube creates a new “digital cultural object” that is related to, but recognized as a distinct entity from the original. The range of data this object contains encourages multidisciplinary collaboration for the integration of preservation, societal and cultural information.

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