BiblioDoc.Francophonie.org Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, 2012 Supplement In a rapidly changing technological environment, the difficult task of ensuring long-term access to digital information is increasingly important. The Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, 2012 Supplement presents over 130 English-language articles, books, and technical reports published in 2012 that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. This selective bibliography covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., media, e-journals, and research data), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. It is a supplement to the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, which covers over 650 works published from 2000 through 2011. All included works are in English. Adams, Sam, and Peter Murray-Rust. Allard, Suzie. ———.
LONG TERM PRESERVATION OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS British Library R&D Report 6238 This report may be reproduced by photocopying for consultation by interested parties inside and outside higher education institutions. © The British Library Board 1996 © Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding Bodies 1996 The opinions expressed in this report are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the British Library or JISC. RDD/C/185 British Library R&D Reports are published by the British Library Research and Development Department and may be purchased as photocopies or microfiche from: the British Thesis Service, British Library Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ. This report of the workshop was prepared by The Marc Fresko Consultancy Telephone 0181 645 0080 E-mail marc@easynet.co.uk LYNNE BRINDLEY Chairman, JISC eLib Programme Librarian and Director of Information Services, London School of Economics and Political Science The aims of the workshop were to:
Bibliofrance.org Avoiding a Digital Dark Age Data longevity depends on both the storage medium and the ability to decipher the information Kurt D. Bollacker When I was a boy, I discovered a magnetic reel-to-reel audio tape recorder that my father had used to create “audio letters” to my mother while he was serving in the Vietnam War. To my delight (and his horror), I could listen to many of the old tapes he had made a decade before. Even better, I could make recordings myself and listen to them. A decade later in the 1980s I was in high school making backups of the hard drive of my PC onto 5-¼-inch floppy disks. The Dead Sea scrolls, made out of still-readable parchment and papyrus, are believed to have been created more than 2,000 years ago. Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, an increasing proportion of the information we create and use has been in the form of digital data. Sending... Your email has been sent Enter the words above:Incorrect please try again
Réseau francophone des bibliothèques nationales numériques (RFBN 'Digital dark age' could leave historians with no records of the 21st century - News - Gadgets and Tech Technology could mean that our lives are lost to history, according to experts. As the way that we store information about ourselves develops, memories stored in files that use older technology are becoming harder to access, Dr Vinton "Vint" Cerf, vice president of Google, has warned. That could mean that historians of the future are unable to learn about our lives, Cerf said. Cerf recommended that users make physical copies of important documents, so that they will last into the future. "In our zeal to get excited about digitising we digitise photographs thinking it's going to make them last longer, and we might turn out to be wrong," he said. But even that might not work, since historians often don’t realise what the important documents of a time are until centuries after those that made them have died. "Some people make the argument that the important stuff will be copied and put into new media and so why should we worry," Cerf said. Reuse content
La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job – The Message – Medium When this launched, there were dozens of confused comments from people wondering what old videogames has to do with Internet history. In my mind, this stems from mistaken perception issues of the Internet Archive as solely an institution saving webpages. But their mission and motto is much broader: Universal access to all knowledge. The Internet Archive is not Google. The Internet Archive is a chaotic, beautiful mess. But this software emulation project feels, to me, like the kind of thing Google would have tried in 2003. This effort is the perfect articulation of what makes the Internet Archive great — with repercussions for the future we won’t fully appreciate for years. But here’s a glimpse: last week, one of the JSMESS developers managed to get Netscape running on Windows 3.1 with functional networking. It’s not just about games — that’s just the hook. It’s about preserving our digital history, which as we know now, is as easy to delete as 15 years of GeoCities.
Histoire des inventions: les transports terrestres De l'invention de la roue en 3500 avant J.-C. à l'avènement de l'automobile à la fin du 19° siècle, six inventions ont révolutionné le transport terrestre et contribué de manière extraordinaire au développement agricole, industriel et touristique de nos sociétés. Surtout, ces inventions ont entraîné de profonds changements sociaux, en particulier dans le rapport des individus à l'espace. Invention de la roue (3500 avant J. Au début de l'antiquité, les Sumériens utilisent des rondins de bois pour déplacer de lourdes pierres. Les premières roues étaient pleines, en pierre d'une seule pièce, ou en bois souvent constituées de trois ou quatre pièces assemblées. Désormais les roues sont montées sur leur axe à l'aide de roulements à billes ou à rouleaux, ou de paliers hydrodynamiques. Invention de la charrue (300 avant J. Il s’agit de l'invention capitale qui a fait décoller la production agricole. C’est le passage d'une espèce de jardinage soigné à un début d'agriculture extensive.
Your digital life after death – Medium “What happens to your digital presence after you die?” Only a short while ago, no one had to consider what would become of the long trail of personal data we leave all over the internet. Now, artist and TED Fellow Gabriel Barcia-Colombo (TED Talk: Capturing memories in video art) is using this data as raw material to generate high-tech memorials that bring back to life those we’ve lost — and spark a conversation about our virtual lives and death. A very vinyl memorial. Because who needs a stone monument? Barcia-Colombo updated the Victorian-era mourning locket (which might house such mementos as a photograph or a lock of hair) to create a digital video locket: a custom-made necklace with a built-in screen that plays, at random, video clips of the deceased. What about meeting loved ones face to face? For two days at the end of August, the Hereafter Institute sprang to life for a live performance at LACMA directed by theater director Benita de Wit.
Managing your digital records Most of us have moved into the digital world in order to work, communicate, take photos, and generally to run our lives. But the huge storage capacity of contemporary computers and other devices, and a sense of being too busy, mean that many people have chaotic personal digital archives, disorganised and prone to accidental loss. If our digital archivists could be angels on the shoulders of creators of digital content they would plead 4 messages. These things apply to everyone and will make your life easier when you are looking for information. Home office 1. This is the simplest step. Be descriptive, but……keep it short. Ask yourself: In 50 years will I understand what the item is by the title—will I be able to find it? 2. Control baby! If there is one thing to fill an archivist’s heart with dread it is a pile of loose papers—what are they about? Just as we might control paper records with folders and subject titles in a filing cabinet or box, we also need to control digital records. 3. 4.
The Internet Archive Turns 20: A Behind The Scenes Look At Archiving The Web Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle and some of the Archive’s servers in 2006. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) To most of the web surfing public, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is the face of the Archive’s web archiving activities. Via a simple interface, anyone can type in a URL and see how it has changed over the last 20 years. Perhaps the first and most important detail to understand about the Internet Archive’s web crawling activities is that it operates far more like a traditional library archive than a modern commercial search engine. In contrast, the Internet Archive is comprised of a myriad independent datasets, feeds and crawls, each of which has very different characteristics and rules governing its construction, with some run by the Archive and others by its many partners and contributors. The most recent crawl appears to be Wide Crawl Number 13, created on January 9, 2015 and running through present. There are likely many reasons for this architectural decision.
Digital preservation In library and archival science, digital preservation is a formal endeavor to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable.[1] It involves planning, resource allocation, and application of preservation methods and technologies,[2] and it combines policies, strategies and actions to ensure access to reformatted and "born-digital" content, regardless of the challenges of media failure and technological change. The goal of digital preservation is the accurate rendering of authenticated content over time.[3] According to the Harrod's Librarian Glossary, digital preservation is the method of keeping digital material alive so that they remain usable as technological advances render original hardware and software specification obsolete. [4] Preservation fundamentals[edit] Appraisal[edit] Archival appraisal (or, alternatively, selection[5]) refers to the process of identifying records and other materials to be preserved by determining their permanent value.