Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010

This selective bibliography includes over 500 articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. The Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography includes published articles, books, and technical reports. All included works are in English. The bibliography does not cover conference papers, digital media works (such as MP3 files), editorials, e-mail messages, letters to the editor, presentation slides or transcripts, unpublished e-prints, or weblog postings. Most sources have been published between 2000 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included

Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010

This selective bibliography includes over 500 articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. The Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography includes published articles, books, and technical reports. All included works are in English. The bibliography does not cover conference papers, digital media works (such as MP3 files), editorials, e-mail messages, letters to the editor, presentation slides or transcripts, unpublished e-prints, or weblog postings. Most sources have been published between 2000 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included

A New Model for Image-Based Humanities Computing

Image-based humanities computing, the computer-assisted study of digitallyrepresented “objects or artifacts of cultural heritage,” is an increasingly popular yet “established practice” located at the most recent intersections of humanities scholarship and “digital imaging technologies,” as Matthew Kirschenbaum has pointed out. Many exciting things have been and are being done in this field, as multifaceted multimedia projects and “advanced visual and visualization tools” continue to be produced and used; but it also seems to lack definition and seems unnecessarily limited in its critical approach to digital images. That is, the textual mediation required to make images usable or knowable, and the kinds of knowledge images offer, often goes unexamined, and the value of creative or deformative responses to images overlooked. This thesis will suggest Blake’s production of the Laoco¨on as a model for a more open and relevant approach to images, will analyze what image-based humanities computing does and how Blake’s engraving recapitulates these actions, and will describe how acritical approaches to image description could be integrated and used, and how images could function as graphic mediation for other materials, in this field. Blake’s idiosyncratic Laoco¨on exemplifies the ways that creators or editors respond to and describe images and the ways they use images to illuminate text. In entitling his plate “[Jah] & his two Sons [. . . ]” and filling it with descriptive text, Blake shares the focus of image-based humanities computing on images as things to be broken down, described, and understood. But Blake’s classification and description, deformative in misreading the image, reveals the true nature of such mediation and the need for a more open system, one which allows observers to record how they interpret an image, perhaps best accomplished in image-based humanities computing through semantic web technologies like folksonomy tagging or collaborative wiki formats. And Blake’s act of pulling a pre-existing image out of context and applying it to a new textual work suggests a new function for images and the highly structured image databases of image-based humanities computing, to clarify or complicate textual works through graphic mediation

A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature

The word kaleidoscope comes from a Greek phrase meaning to view a beautiful form, and this report makes the leap of faith that all scholarship is beautiful (Ayers 2005b). This review is divided into three major sections. Part I offers a sampling of the types of digital resources currently available or under development in support of American literature and identifies the prevailing concerns of specialists in the field as expressed during interviews conducted between July 2004 and May 2005. Part two of the report consolidates the results of these interviews with an exploration of resources currently available to illustrate, on the one hand, a kaleidoscope of differing attitudes and assessments, and, on the other, an underlying design that gives shape to the parts. Part three examines six categories of digital work in progress: (1) quality-controlled subject gateways, (2) author studies, (3) public domain e-book collections and alternative publishing models, (4) proprietary reference resources and full-text primary source collections, (5) collections by design, and (6) teaching applications. This survey is informed by a selective review of the recent literature, focusing especially on contributions from scholars that have appeared in discipline-based journals

Extending Discourse Analysis in Archaeology: A Multimodal Approach

Archaeology is a highly visual discipline, reliant on observation as well as description, and consequently makes extensive use of diagrams, maps, plans, illustrations and photography as well as textual narratives in communicating its interpretations of past material culture. If discourse analysis is to shed light on the construction of archaeological knowledge it therefore should seek to incorporate the visual alongside the textual, but at present discussion of the two modes are largely independent of each other with an emphasis on the text. A case study examines the interrelationships and interdependencies that exist between text and illustrations in archaeological grey literature, and argues that a multimodal approach to knowledge creation is called for which better reflects the different modes and media used in archaeology

Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010

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Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works

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 presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. This selective bibliography covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2011; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works. It is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. Cite as: Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2012

Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works

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 presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. This selective bibliography covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2011; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works. It is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. Cite as: Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2012

Text and Genre in Reconstruction

In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical approaches, this rich body of work explores topics ranging from how computers have affected our relationship to language, whether the book has become an obsolete object, the nature of online journalism, and the psychology of authorship. The essays offer a significant contribution to the growing debate on how digitization is shaping our collective identity, for better or worse. Text and Genre in Reconstruction will appeal to scholars in both the humanities and sciences and provides essential reading for anyone interested in the changing relationship between reader and text in the digital age

Text and Genre in Reconstruction

In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical approaches, this rich body of work explores topics ranging from how computers have affected our relationship to language, whether the book has become an obsolete object, the nature of online journalism, and the psychology of authorship. The essays offer a significant contribution to the growing debate on how digitization is shaping our collective identity, for better or worse. Text and Genre in Reconstruction will appeal to scholars in both the humanities and sciences and provides essential reading for anyone interested in the changing relationship between reader and text in the digital age