THE POSSIBILITIES AND THE POSSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES OF BORN CHALLENGES OF BORN DIGITAL COLLECTIONSDIGITAL COLLECTIONS

Gretchen Gueguen2/25/2011

Possibilities.

Challenges.

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/02/13/funny-pictures-ceiling-cat-creates-man/

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/05/20/funny-pictures-arose-basement-cat/

Possibilities & Possibilities & Challenges.Challenges.

The Possibilities & Challenges of Born Digital Collections

• Definition of Born Digital• Innate Qualities of Born Digital

Materials– Change– Scale– Context– Evolution

• Practical Management Strategies

“Born digital resources are items created and managed in digital form”

Erway, Ricky. 2010. Defining "Born Digital." Report produced by OCLC Research. Published online at: http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/hiddencollections/borndigital.pdf

digital.Born digital.

Change.Change.

OAIS Model

http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf

Digital Forensics

“The same forensics software that indexes a criminal suspect’s hard drive allows the archivist to prepare a comprehensive manifest of the electronic files a donor has turned over for accession…ensure the integrity of the digital content…reconstruct a lost or inadvertently deleted version of an electronic manuscript…”

CLIR pub 149: Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections. by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Richard Ovenden, Gabriela Redwine with research assistance from Rachel Donahue. December 2010.

Scale.Scale.

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/

Cyberinfrastructure

“Cyberinfrastructure integrates hardware for computing, data and networks, digitally-enabled sensors, observatories and experimental facilities, and an interoperable suite of software and middleware services and tools.”

National Science Foundation. Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery. March 2007. <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/nsf0728.pdf>

Data Archive

Data Archive

Data Archive

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•Virtualized Environment•Data Archive 1•Data Archive 2•Data Archive 3

SRB

Context.Context.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/03/15/multimedia/1247467357139/the-salman-rushdie-digital-archive.html

Boundaries.

http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw/

Evolution.Evolution.

Evolution of Digital Humanities

“One of his more important observations was that computing in the humanities is not about speeding up conventional scholarship, or making its performance more efficient or accurate, although all those improvements can occur, because what we mean by scholarship itself changes in the process.”

McCarty, Willard. What is Humanities Computing? Toward a Definition of the Field. URL: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/staff/wlm/essays/what/

http://macgreevy.org

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/

OAIS

Strategies.Strategies.

Strategies

1.Donor Education and Involvement.

Strategies

1. Donor Education and Involvement.

2.Preserve What We Can.

Strategies

1. Donor Education and Involvement.2. Preserve What We Can.

3.Pay Attention.

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model

Strategies

1. Donor Education and Involvement.2. Preserve What We Can.

3. Pay Attention.

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"The wise know "The wise know their weakness their weakness too well to too well to assume assume infallibility; and infallibility; and he who knows he who knows most, knows most, knows best how little best how little he knows." he knows."

THANKS!THANKS!

Gretchen Gueguengretchen_m_k@hotmail.com

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