Digital Preservation's Role in the Future of the Digital Humanities
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DIGITAL PRESERVATION’S PLACE IN THE FUTURE OF THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES THOUGHTS FROM TREVOR OWENS
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Slides from an invited presentation I gave to the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool. "Ensuring long term access to digital information sounds like a technical problem. It seems like digital preservation should be a computer science problem. Far from it. In this lecture Trevor Owens, a digital archivist at the Library of Congress argues that digital preservation is in fact a core problem and issue at the heart of the future of the digital humanities. Bringing together perspectives from the history of technology, new media studies, public history, and archival theory, he suggests the critical role that humanities scholars and practitioners should play in framing and shaping the collection, organization, description, and modes of access to the historically contingent digital material records of contemporary society."
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DIGITAL PRESERVATION’S PLACE IN THE FUTURE OF THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
THOUGHTS FROM TREVOR OWENS
WE CAN’T JUST BUILD THE RIGHT SYSTEM. DIGITAL PRESERVATION IS NOT PRIMARILY A TECHNICAL PROBLEM.
WHAT ON EARTH IS A DIGITAL HISTORIAN? AND WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO WITH DIGITAL PRESERVATION?
WHAT IS/ARE (THE) DIGITAL HUMANITIES AGAIN?
1. COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS2. MODES OF COMMUNICATION3. DIGITAL PRIMARY SOURCES
MY DIGITAL HUMANITIES ARE
SELECTION &COLLECTION
PITFALLS IN DEFINITION & SIGNIFICANCE
WHAT IS PITFALL
“SOLUTIONISM PRESUMES RATHER THAN INVESTIGATES THE PROBLEM IT IS TRYING TO SOLVE” MOROZOV/DOBBINS
CHIMERICAL SIGNIFICANT PROPERTIES
http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/archives/3214
DIGITAL MATERIALITY & INSCRIPTION
THINK LESS ABOUT CHARACTERS FLUTTERING OFF THE EDGE OF THE SCREEN
CHIMERICAL SIGNIFICANT PROPERTIES
DIGITAL IS MEASURED IN MICRONS
MEDIA AND DATA STRUCTURES AS FONDS
HERBERT A. PHILBRICK PAPERS
AFTER PROCESSING
HERBERT A. PHILBRICK PAPERS BEFORE PROCESSING
ORDER IN LARSON PAPERS FLOPPY DISK
GLITCH & SCREEN ESSENTIALISM
CHIMERICAL SIGNIFICANT PROPERTIES
DIGITAL IS MEASURED IN MICRONSSOFTWARE READS
CHIMERICAL SIGNIFICANT PROPERTIES
DIGITAL IS MEASURED IN MICRONS.MP3 AND .WAV VERSIONS OF SAME RECORDING OPENED AS .RAW FILES IN PHOTOSHOP
FORMAT & MEDIUM IN PLATFORM STUDY
BUT HOW DOES PITFALL SEE THE SCREEN?
CHIMERICAL SIGNIFICANT PROPERTIES
DIGITAL IS MEASURED IN MICRONS
THE BORN DIGITAL RECORD IS BORN COMPUTABLE
DIGITAL PRESERVATION AS PART OF THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
A GOLDEN AGE FOR BORN-DIGITAL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, ARCHIVES AND CRITICAL EDDITIONS
