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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Digital preservation"”.
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Digital preservation preparedness of the National Library of Namibia for digital preservation of documentary heritage: a case study
… National Library of Namibia's preparedness to digitally preserve Namibia's documentary heritage. The study triangulated the Open Archives Information System Reference Model and the Digital Preservation Capability Maturity Model, which aided to unpack digital preservation concepts. Within the …
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Hydra: loosely coupling the graphics pipeline to facilitate digital preservation.
… that software can be seen as a form of art and digital heritage and yet it rarely enjoys the same efforts afforded to it compared to physical counterparts. There are many reasons for this, such as the increasing costs of maintenance or the reducing amount of expertise in the specific aging …
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Digital preservation auditing metrics as design tools for digital repositories
… aspects in building and maintaining a trusted digital repository. Such collaboration is overlooked in most digital preservation auditing metrics. This not only prevents the possibility of formal certification, but not including third-party participation in the standards implies that there are …
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The digital preservation of research at Colorado State University: a case study of three departments
… in higher education have converged onto digital formats. While the technology to store data has improved at an increasing pace, personal and organizational behaviors have not adapted as rapidly. The study sought ways to communicate digital preservation skills to researchers to improve the …
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Digital Preservation Readiness for Legal Deposit Materials at the Msunduzi Municipal Library in KwaZulu-Natal
The study investigated a digital preservation program readiness of legal deposit materials at the Msunduzi Municipal Library in KwaZulu-Natal. This study looked at the readiness to undertake the digital preservation programme, whether they meet the requirements for digital preservation programme in …
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Digital preservation in institutional repositories in Namibian academic libraries: A case study of the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) and the University of Namibia (UNAM)
This study investigated long-term digital preservation activities in Institutional Repositories (IRs) digital contents at Namibian academic libraries (Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) and University of Namibia (UNAM)). The study intended to determine the procedures and policies …
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Encoding power: the scripting of archival structures in digital spaces using the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model
… is a corner stone of the evolving discipline of digital preservation. It undergirds many of the systems that are used in daily practice in organizations engaging in digital preservation, and directly or indirectly influences commercial and open source tools, as well as administrative and …
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What do we mean by 'preserving digital information'? Towards sound conceptual foundations for digital stewardship
Digital preservation is fundamental to information stewardship in the 21st century. Although much useful work on preservation strategies has been accomplished, we do not yet have an adequate conceptual framework that articulates precisely and formally what preservation actually is. The intention of …
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Acervos científicos digitais nas bibliotecas universitárias da UFRJ: competências, estratégias e normas para sua salvaguarda
This dissertation is focused on the preservation of scientific digital collections which belong to the university libraries and information system (Sistema de Bibliotecas e Informação) of Rio de Janeiro’s Federal University (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) SIBI/UFRJ. The research provided …
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Metadata creation and management in the preservation of digital information in selected libraries in Cape Town
Metadata describes and organizes resources in the digital environment for users to discover. Metadata plays an integral part in the digital preservation of information resources even though inadequacies exist in its creation and management. Challenges that affect creation and management of metadata …
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Integrating Preservation Functions Into the Web Server
<p>Digital preservation of theWorldWideWeb poses unique challenges, different fromthe preservation issues facing professional Digital Libraries. The complete list of a website’s resources cannot be cited with confidence, and the descriptive metadata available for the resources is so minimal that it …
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The application of file identification, validation, and characterization tools in digital curation
… are considered essential processes for digital preservation and, by extension, long-term data curation. These actions are performed on data objects by humans or computers, in an attempt to identify the type of a given file, derive characterizing information that is specific to the file, …
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Creating 3D models of cultural heritage sites with terrestrial laser scanning and 3D imaging
The advent of terrestrial laser-scanners made the digital preservation of cultural heritage sites an affordable technique to produce accurate and detailed 3D-computermodel representations for any kind of 3D-objects, such as buildings, infrastructure, and even entire landscapes. However, one of the …
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Lazy Preservation: Reconstructing Websites from the Web Infrastructure
<p>Backup or preservation of websites is often not considered until after a catastrophic event has occurred. In the face of complete website loss, webmasters or concerned third parties have attempted to recover some of their websites from the Internet Archive. Still others have sought to retrieve …
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Reparative Preservation through Immersive 3D Documentation: Cultural Memory, Spatial Justice, and Gullah Geechee Futures on Daufuskie Island
… advances a reparative framework for cultural preservation by combining immersive documentation with co-authored digital storytelling to support Black spatial memory and community sovereignty. Grounded in fieldwork on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina—a historic Gullah Geechee community …
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E-records readiness in context of e-government strategy in Swaziland
… well as explore the depth of the government wide digital preservation strategy. The IRMT (2004) E-Records Readiness Tool was adapted and used as the analytical framework for this study. This tool is designed to assist organizations to benchmark themselves and to determine where they stand in …
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Literacy and Labor: Archives, Networks, and Histories in Working-Class Communities
… FWWCP members collaborated to build print and digital archives of the FWWCP. Drawing from these archives, I illustrate how the FWWCP —as a group and individual members— negotiated their own expansion in connection to identity politics. Through organizational documents, I trace key moments …
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Performance Measurement and Analysis of Transactional Web Archiving
Web archiving is necessary to retain the history of the World Wide Web and to study its evolution. It is important for the cultural heritage community. Some organizations are legally obligated to capture and archive Web content. The advent of transactional Web archiving makes the archiving process …
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A Framework for Web Object Self-Preservation
… emergent behavior principles for the long-term preservation of digital data using the web infrastructure. We present the development of the framework called unsupervised small-world (USW) which is at the nexus of emergent behavior, graph theory, and digital preservation. The USW algorithm …
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The Surprise of a Knight: Excavating Material Legacies through Early Queer Film
… and future conundrums for best practices in the preservation of (born-digital) pornography, and concludes with impressions from potential audiences and present-day content producers as a means of envisioning new avenues of queer grassroots history-making.
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