Artistic concerns in preservation: how to preserve a digitally-born artwork

The rise of new technologies in the twenty-first century is accompanied by challenges in arts preservation that underscore the need to constantly adapt to new ways of approaching preservation issues. This article investigates the problems in preserving digitally-born cultural heritage and explores the connections between digital cultural heritage and preservation of digitally-born artwork. At the core of this study is the question of how to deal with and preserve digital cultural heritage in the changing world of technology, following a case study model with an emphasis on practical research. The results suggest that while the importance of preventing damage is crucial, further investigations are needed in order to fully treat issues concerning the accurate representation of the artist's intention.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Creative idea exploration within the structure of a guiding framework : the card brainstorming game

I present a card brainstorming exercise that transforms a conceptual tangible interaction framework into a tool for creative dialogue and discuss the experiences made in using it. Ten sessions with this card game demonstrate the frameworks' versatility and utility. Observation and participant feedback highlight the value of a provocative question format and of the metaphor of a card game

Digital Humanities and Qur’ãnic Manuscript Studies: New Perspectives and Challenges for Collaborative Spaces and Plural Views

أهداف البحث: يهدف هذا البحث إلى استعراض الدراسات الحديثة حول المخطوطات القرآنية المبكرة والتي استخدمت فيها المؤلفة الأدوات الرقمية الحديثة؛ من قبيل برامج معالجة الصور، ووضع علامات على النص، وفهم المخطوطات عبر استخدام برمجيات شجرة التطور (Phylogenetic software) – ومن ثم فقد بيّنت الآثار المنهجية للتحرير الرقمي للمخطوطات وإمكانية إيجاد مساحة للتعاون تُعرض فيها البيانات كما فسرها العديد من العلماء.  منهج الدراسة: في استعراضه للأبحاث السابقة والأبحاث المستقبلية حول مخطوطات القرآن الكريم؛ يرتكز هذا البحث على النهج المعرفي الذي يقدمه لنا التحرير الرقمي لنصوص مخطوطات القرآن الكريم باستخدام نظام لوضع العلامات لترميز الإصدارات وتبادلها، ويتناول هذا المنهج بالدراسة والتمحيص. لا يقف وضع العلامات والرموز على النص عند كونهما مجرد أداتين لإنجاز المهمة السيميائية أو الرمزية، ولكنهما تعكسان وتنتجان بُعدًا سيميائيًا مستقلاً. النتائج: يتبنى هذا البحث في عرض فرضيات الدراسة أسلوب إصدارات المخطوطات بوصفه مجالًا لإمكانية مصاغة بذكاء يُتاح للقارئ من خلالها اختبار عملية نشر المخطوطة وجدلية النص. لقد طُبّقت تكنولوجيا المعلومات المستعارة من علم الأحياء وكذلك التحليل الرقمي على بعض مخطوطات القرآن، ومن ثم ثبتت مزايا تحرير إصدار المخطوطات من قيود الصفحات الخطية المحدودة والجامدة للنص المطبوع، وقدمت المؤلفة بالتالي حلاً لمشكلة عرض تعددية المخطوطات. أصالة البحث: يتضح من البحث الحديث في الترميز الرقمي والتحليل الرائد المستعار من علم الأحياء لنصوص مخطوطات القرآن أن المنظور الرقمي قادر على تقديم منهج معرفي جديد لدراسات مخطوطات القرآن من خلال منصة تتسع لكمّ ضخم من الفرضيات المتنوعة وتعترف بتجاوز الحدود الجامدة، وهو ما يمنحنا منظومة عابرة للحدود والثقافات وقدرة على العمل باستخدام أنظمة تشغيل مختلفة في ظل تعددية البيانات التي يجري عرضها بكل شفافية.Purpose: This article aims at giving an overview of recent research projects carried out by the author in early Qurʾānic manuscripts applying digital tools – in terms of imaging processing, tagging of the text and phylogenetics – thus showing the methodological implications in digitally editing manuscripts and the feasibility of a collaborative space that displays data interpreted by several scholars. Methodology: In outlining previous and future projects in early Qurʾānic manuscripts, this article is based on and discusses the new epistemological approach offered by digital editing of Qurʾānic manuscript texts by using a mark-up language to encode and share editions. The mark-up and tagging of the text are not only instruments for achieving semiotic tasks but also represent and produce a separate semiotic dimension. Findings: This research endorses the theory of manuscript editions as a field of intelligently structured possibility that displays hypotheses and allows the reader to experience the manuscript transmission and debatedness of the text. Digital philology and analysis have been applied to some Qurʾānic manuscripts proving the advantages of freeing manuscripts’ edition from the constraints of the linear, circumscribed and static page of the printed text thus offering a solution to the problem of rendering manuscript movement. Originality: This is a cutting-edge research in digital encoding and pioneer phylogenetic analysis of Qurʾānic manuscript texts. It demonstrates that the digital paradigm can offer a new epistemological approach in Qurʾānic manuscript studies through a platform that admits a great quantity of varied hypotheses and crossing boundaries. This offers a transnational and transcultural system, working with different operating systems in a plurality of transparently displayed data

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A Type of Preservation: Modern Recreations of Typeface at Genesee Country Village & Museum and the Cary Graphics Art Collection

Historical objects that serve educational and interpretive purposes face frequent use and can easily be damaged, particularly when those objects are designed to be disposed of following high usage. Conserving these artifacts through both digital and physical reproductions enables museum staff, scholars, and the general public to tell a more complete history of the objects and of material culture. To demonstrate the necessity of preserving functional artifacts, this thesis examined historic wooden typefaces used for document printing to answer the following question: do digital and physical reproductions of wood type fonts allow for preservation of the original fonts while maintaining an authentic, participatory experience for visitors? By working with the collection of typefaces at Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, New York and the Cary Graphic Art Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology, I recreated damaged types with methods tested by scholars of printing history to demonstrate the value of physical and digital reproductions. I also showed how such efforts enable museums and other collecting institutions to view type as both an art form and a means of production. This research contributes to the ongoing discussion on the use of facsimiles in the museum space for exhibition and educational purposes and the conversations surrounding authenticity in museums

Improving Public Record Access

Nantucket\u27s public and historic records are maintained by many different institutions and are kept in various forms. The project\u27s goal was to address this fragmentation and find a way to improve access to public and historic records on Nantucket. The team researched other collaborative digitization projects and interviewed record-holding organizations on the island to create an inventory of existing records and to gauge interest in the creation of a single website to provide access to Nantucket\u27s records. The team identified the key steps for a successful digital collaborative project, developed a prototype records database and web interface, and recommended how Nantucket should move this effort forward

Thermal constraints on in vivo optogenetic manipulations.

A key assumption of optogenetics is that light only affects opsin-expressing neurons. However, illumination invariably heats tissue, and many physiological processes are temperature-sensitive. Commonly used illumination protocols increased the temperature by 0.2-2 °C and suppressed spiking in multiple brain regions. In the striatum, light delivery activated an inwardly rectifying potassium conductance and biased rotational behavior. Thus, careful consideration of light-delivery parameters is required, as even modest intracranial heating can confound interpretation of optogenetic experiments

Visiting with the Ancestors : Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces

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The Wiltshire Wills Feasibility Study

The Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office has nearly ninety thousand wills in its care. These records are neither adequately catalogued nor secured against loss by facsimile microfilm copies. With support from the Heritage Lottery Fund the Record Office has begun to produce suitable finding aids for the material. Beginning with this feasibility study the Record Office is developing a strategy to ensure the that facsimiles to protect the collection against risk of loss or damage and to improve public access are created.<p></p> This feasibility study explores the different methodologies that can be used to assist the preservation and conservation of the collection and improve public access to it. The study aims to produce a strategy that will enable the Record Office to create digital facsimiles of the Wills in its care for access purposes and to also create preservation quality microfilms. The strategy aims to seek the most cost effective and time efficient approach to the problem and identifies ways to optimise the processes by drawing on the experience of other similar projects. This report provides a set of guidelines and recommendations to ensure the best use of the resources available for to provide the most robust preservation strategy and to ensure that future access to the Wills as an information resource can be flexible, both local and remote, and sustainable