Digital curation in the digital humanities : preserving and promoting archival and special collections

Digital curation in the digital humanities : preserving and promoting archival and special collections / Arjun Sabharwal.

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...

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Main Author: Sabharwal, Arjun (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Waltham, MA : Chandos Publishing, [2015]
Series:Chandos information professional series.
Subjects:
Digital preservation.
Archival materials > Conservation and restoration.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.
Archival materials > Conservation and restoration
Digital preservation
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Defining digital curation in the digital humanities context
  • Archives and special collections in the digital humanities
  • Digital history, archives, and curating digital cultural heritage
  • Information architecture and hypertextuality : concerns for digital curation
  • Digital curation lifecycle in practice
  • Organizational dimensions of digital curation
  • Social networks' impact on digital curation.
  • Conceptualizing the framework for digital curation
  • 1. Defining digital curation in the digital humanities context
  • Foundational definitions for curation
  • Digital curation
  • Digital preservation
  • Lifecycle of digital contents
  • Levels of curation
  • Digital humanities data curation
  • Using linked open data in digital curation
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Archives and special collections in the digital humanities
  • Defining the digital humanities
  • Characteristics of Digital Humanities
  • Discursive concerns in the digital humanities
  • The role of archives in the digital humanities
  • Archives and the linguistic turn
  • Digital humanities projects involving archives and libraries
  • Digital humanities project descriptions
  • Digital humanities curation in the classroom
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Digital history, archives, and curating digital cultural heritage
  • Defining digital history
  • Paradigm shifts in archival curation.
  • Digital historiography and archives
  • Digital historical representations
  • Historical hypertext
  • Digital history data curation
  • Digital historiography and digital curation
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Information architecture and hypertextuality: concerns for digital curation
  • Defining information architecture
  • Digital curation of hypertextual content
  • Information architecture and hypertextuality
  • Spatial, temporal, and ontological dimensions in information architecture
  • Localized approaches at the Ward M. Canaday Center for special collections
  • Information architecture for online and hybrid courses in digital humanities
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Digital curation lifecycle in practice
  • Overview of the DCC curation lifecycle model
  • Conceptualization and the master plan
  • Curation of data sets and digital objects
  • Full lifecycle actions
  • Preservation planning
  • Preservation and conservation in the curation lifecycle.
  • Description and representation information
  • Community watch and participation
  • Sequential actions
  • Occasional actions
  • Conclusion
  • 6.Organizational dimensions of digital curation
  • Knowledge management in digital curation
  • Knowledge architectures for digital curation
  • Knowledge transfer in digital curation
  • Organizational contexts for knowledge architectures
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Social networks' impact on digital curation
  • Cross-curation, social curation ecosystems, and cultural heritage
  • Hypertextuality and ontologies in social media
  • Social network theory, hypertextuality, and cross-curation
  • Social networking and Web 2.0 tools in archives
  • The social curation ecosystem in Toledo's Attic
  • Conclusion.

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