Documenting Born Digital Creative and Scholarly Works for Access and Preservation [Day 1 p.m.]
Digital Humanities Summer Institute Workshop #2
Documenting Born Digital Creative and Scholarly Works for Access and Preservation
Afternoon Day 1
Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature: Pathfinders
In 90s, understood physical/material thing and ephemeral thing. Thought that digital is immaterial. Not good thinking. In 2002 Writing Machines notion of digital work not being immaterial. Now we understand digital material has material component, bits rot, etc.
Reading: Christyann See 3 types of preservation: emulation, migration, collection. She prefers emulation because is more elegant (she's an artist) - last thing a gallery want to do is show wires and plugs, that's the aesthetic of a traditional gallery. Having computers in a gallery space is counterproductive. Emulation makes sense for those who don't want to show the muck to the public, the bits and pieces that make things work. She doesnt like migration. Really hates collection which is not an elegant solution, not enough money, expertise, and constant upgrading is not realistic. As a curator, how do you show this work of art.
But all three are important. Depends on context, which pushes back against standardization. No matter what you use, documentation. Helps buoy three major types of preservation.
Other readings argue for collection because of cultural experience that is lost in emulation. Something about being able to see original format to understand variances of language, even. Collection issue allows us to experience that work
Judy Malloy's Traversal of Uncle Roger - traversal is a performance by artist and or readers on and with the tech the work was made on and intended to be performed with. Documenting collection methodology. Video of Judy working on terminal, no editing or modification. Add image to note the flickering of the screen but didn't change the image. Also did interview of artist to document the making of that work. Made sound files for the blind who might not have access on Vimeo. Then reader traversals of Malloy's work. Now 3 paths of that work. Not every way to read the work, but 3 different paths. There wee handmade artist boxes for the material, so also about the version, production method, box contents notes. Ekphratic descriptions of each of the things alongside the photos. Screenreader compliant. Same with handmade sleeves. Historical background, pictures, publishing information, basic code, related essays. See the emulation and difference between presentation of original and others. All in Scalar. The Pathfinder's methodology is to take all components and put together so scholar can access it. Videos are also on vimeo and Youtube. Also backed up going on Compute Canada
How is this whole thing preserved? Meta - the documenting of the documentation.
Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-web Born Digital Media by Grigar, Schiller, Rhodes, Whitney, Gwin, & Bowen on elmcip.net where it is also documented
Long term preservation in Samvera.
Focus is not on the work but the reader's relationship with the work in traversal methodology, documenting the experience, like usability studies. [Almost like an active reader-response theory application] Catalog for the Electronic Literature Lab (building in Scratch, hand coded).
For RTP: logs what visits, countries, Universities/centers/libraries/schools of people who have accessed. Should we use statcounter, academia.edu, Google, what? Statcounter is free (and she compares to Google analytics and don't cheat as much as Google), and statcounter is stricter.
CKAN - preservation of datasets
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Pivot to our projects
Tomorrow readings, logins/connection to Scalar and other tools
ESRM data mapping and terabytes
Island research - Big vision - 3D island overlaid. What are components? What needs ot happen 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, How are these funded and achieved? faculty and student (spreadsheets, images, video, word docs, 3d photos, posters, slides of fish and microplastics); upload straight from island via API (COMP)- we have no policies/procedures documentation prototype
Environmental scan
WhaleHunt e-Lit project tells story of 3 day whale hunt. interactive timeline. What if in same location
Documenting Born Digital Creative and Scholarly Works for Access and Preservation
Afternoon Day 1
Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature: Pathfinders
In 90s, understood physical/material thing and ephemeral thing. Thought that digital is immaterial. Not good thinking. In 2002 Writing Machines notion of digital work not being immaterial. Now we understand digital material has material component, bits rot, etc.
Reading: Christyann See 3 types of preservation: emulation, migration, collection. She prefers emulation because is more elegant (she's an artist) - last thing a gallery want to do is show wires and plugs, that's the aesthetic of a traditional gallery. Having computers in a gallery space is counterproductive. Emulation makes sense for those who don't want to show the muck to the public, the bits and pieces that make things work. She doesnt like migration. Really hates collection which is not an elegant solution, not enough money, expertise, and constant upgrading is not realistic. As a curator, how do you show this work of art.
But all three are important. Depends on context, which pushes back against standardization. No matter what you use, documentation. Helps buoy three major types of preservation.
Other readings argue for collection because of cultural experience that is lost in emulation. Something about being able to see original format to understand variances of language, even. Collection issue allows us to experience that work
Judy Malloy's Traversal of Uncle Roger - traversal is a performance by artist and or readers on and with the tech the work was made on and intended to be performed with. Documenting collection methodology. Video of Judy working on terminal, no editing or modification. Add image to note the flickering of the screen but didn't change the image. Also did interview of artist to document the making of that work. Made sound files for the blind who might not have access on Vimeo. Then reader traversals of Malloy's work. Now 3 paths of that work. Not every way to read the work, but 3 different paths. There wee handmade artist boxes for the material, so also about the version, production method, box contents notes. Ekphratic descriptions of each of the things alongside the photos. Screenreader compliant. Same with handmade sleeves. Historical background, pictures, publishing information, basic code, related essays. See the emulation and difference between presentation of original and others. All in Scalar. The Pathfinder's methodology is to take all components and put together so scholar can access it. Videos are also on vimeo and Youtube. Also backed up going on Compute Canada
How is this whole thing preserved? Meta - the documenting of the documentation.
Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-web Born Digital Media by Grigar, Schiller, Rhodes, Whitney, Gwin, & Bowen on elmcip.net where it is also documented
Long term preservation in Samvera.
Focus is not on the work but the reader's relationship with the work in traversal methodology, documenting the experience, like usability studies. [Almost like an active reader-response theory application] Catalog for the Electronic Literature Lab (building in Scratch, hand coded).
For RTP: logs what visits, countries, Universities/centers/libraries/schools of people who have accessed. Should we use statcounter, academia.edu, Google, what? Statcounter is free (and she compares to Google analytics and don't cheat as much as Google), and statcounter is stricter.
CKAN - preservation of datasets
------------
Pivot to our projects
Tomorrow readings, logins/connection to Scalar and other tools
ESRM data mapping and terabytes
Island research - Big vision - 3D island overlaid. What are components? What needs ot happen 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, How are these funded and achieved? faculty and student (spreadsheets, images, video, word docs, 3d photos, posters, slides of fish and microplastics); upload straight from island via API (COMP)- we have no policies/procedures documentation prototype
Environmental scan
WhaleHunt e-Lit project tells story of 3 day whale hunt. interactive timeline. What if in same location
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