Archives and special collections departments have a long history of
preserving and providing long-term access to organizational records,
rare books, and other unique primary sources including manuscripts,
photographs, recordings, and artifacts in various formats. The careful
curatorial attention to such records has also ensured that such
records remain available to researchers and the public as sources of
knowledge, memory, and identity. Digital curation presents an
important framework for the continued preservation of digitized and
born-digital collections, given the ephemeral and device-dependent
nature of digital content. With the emergence of analog and digital
media formats in close succession (compared to earlier paper- and
film-based formats) came new standards, technologies, methods,
documentation, and workflows to ensure safe storage and access to
content and associated metadata. Researchers in the digital humanities
have extensively applied computing to research; for them, continued
access to primary data and cultural heritage means both the
continuation of humanities scholarship and new methodologies not
possible without digital technology. _Digital Curation in
the Digital Humanities,_ therefore, comprises a joint framework for
preserving, promoting, and accessing digital collections. This book
explores at great length the conceptualization of digital curation
projects with interdisciplinary approaches that combine the digital
humanities and history, information architecture, social networking,
and other themes for such a framework. The individual chapters focus
on the specifics of each area, but the relationships holding the
knowledge architecture and the digital curation lifecycle model
together remain an overarching theme throughout the book; thus, each
chapter connects to others on a conceptual, theoretical, or practical
level.
* theoretical and practical perspectives on digital curation in the
digital humanities and history
* in-depth study of the role of social media and a social curation
ecosystem
* the role of hypertextuality and information architecture in digital
curation
* study of collaboration and organizational dimensions in digital
curation
* reviews of important web tools in digital humanities
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ISBN
9780081001431
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Chandos Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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