Description
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, inform
Chapter
Preface and Acknowledgments
Preface and Acknowledgments
Conceptualizing the framework for digital curation
Conceptualizing the framework for digital curation
1 - Defining digital curation in the digital humanities context
1 - Defining digital curation in the digital humanities context
Foundational definitions for curation
Foundational definitions for curation
Lifecycle of digital contents
Lifecycle of digital contents
Digital humanities data curation
Digital humanities data curation
Using linked open data in digital curation
Using linked open data in digital curation
2 - Archives and special collections in the digital humanities
2 - Archives and special collections in the digital humanities
Defining the digital humanities
Defining the digital humanities
Characteristics of Digital Humanities
Characteristics of Digital Humanities
Discursive concerns in the digital humanities
Discursive concerns in the digital humanities
The role of archives in the digital humanities
The role of archives in the digital humanities
Archives and the linguistic turn
Archives and the linguistic turn
Digital humanities projects involving archives and libraries
Digital humanities projects involving archives and libraries
Digital humanities project descriptions
Digital humanities project descriptions
Digital humanities curation in the classroom
Digital humanities curation in the classroom
3 - Digital history, archives, and curating digital cultural heritage
3 - Digital history, archives, and curating digital cultural heritage
Paradigm shifts in archival curation
Paradigm shifts in archival curation
Digital historiography and archives
Digital historiography and archives
Digital historical representations
Digital historical representations
Digital history data curation
Digital history data curation
Digital historiography and digital curation
Digital historiography and digital curation
4 - Information architecture and hypertextuality: concerns for digital curation
4 - Information architecture and hypertextuality: concerns for digital curation
Defining information architecture
Defining information architecture
Digital curation of hypertextual content
Digital curation of hypertextual content
Information architecture and hypertextuality
Information architecture and hypertextuality
Spatial, temporal, and ontological dimensions in information architecture
Spatial, temporal, and ontological dimensions in information architecture
Localized approaches at the Ward M. Canaday Center for special collections
Localized approaches at the Ward M. Canaday Center for special collections
Information architecture for online and hybrid courses in digital humanities
Information architecture for online and hybrid courses in digital humanities
5 - Digital curation lifecycle in practice
5 - Digital curation lifecycle in practice
Overview of the DCC curation lifecycle model
Overview of the DCC curation lifecycle model
Conceptualization and the master plan
Conceptualization and the master plan
Curation of data sets and digital objects
Curation of data sets and digital objects
Preservation and conservation in the curation lifecycle
Preservation and conservation in the curation lifecycle
Description and representation information
Description and representation information
Community watch and participation
Community watch and participation
6 - Organizational dimensions of digital curation
6 - Organizational dimensions of digital curation
Knowledge management in digital curation
Knowledge management in digital curation
Knowledge architectures for digital curation
Knowledge architectures for digital curation
Knowledge transfer in digital curation
Knowledge transfer in digital curation
Organizational contexts for knowledge architectures
Organizational contexts for knowledge architectures
7 - Social networks’ impact on digital curation
7 - Social networks’ impact on digital curation
Cross-curation, social curation ecosystems, and cultural heritage
Cross-curation, social curation ecosystems, and cultural heritage
Hypertextuality and ontologies in social media
Hypertextuality and ontologies in social media
Social network theory, hypertextuality, and cross-curation
Social network theory, hypertextuality, and cross-curation
Social networking and Web 2.0 tools in archives
Social networking and Web 2.0 tools in archives
The social curation ecosystem in Toledo’s Attic
The social curation ecosystem in Toledo’s Attic