preservation

event: Building Content, Building Community - Museum Computer Network Annual Conference

This year in Chicago, MCN (Museum Computer Network) will revive the cross-disciplinary vision of 40 years ago and explore its promise in the present day, encouraging participation from institutions across the museum spectrum. How we are the same? How are we different?

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conference
copyright
communities
standards
preservation
Discipline: 
Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
By Torsten Reimer at Wed, 24/10/2007 - 12:41

event: Tools and Trends

Tools and Trends will feature international speakers who will present newest developments of Tools for digital preservation and the latest Trends in long-term archiving.

The occasion

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conference
preservation
By Torsten Reimer at Mon, 08/10/2007 - 12:35

event: Future Histories of the Moving Image

This three day conference is organised by the Future Histories of the Moving Image Research Network that has been set up to address the issues of sustainability and historiography arising from the growing number of moving image arts database and digitised collection projects in the UK.

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sustainability
preservation
Discipline: 
Media
By Torsten Reimer at Fri, 28/09/2007 - 16:57

blog: Preserving Virtual Worlds project - Second Life

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stanford University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Linden Lab (creators of Second Life) have received funding for a two-year project to explore methods for preserving digital games, interactive fiction, and shared realtime virtual spaces.

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virtual worlds
second life
preservation
By Torsten Reimer at Wed, 08/08/2007 - 12:48

wikipage: Preservation (Museums and Cultural Heritage)

Preservation issues are quite obviously very central to the concerns of those working in the MCH sector. As is often the case when considering the application of digital tools to an area of activity, preservation can be examined in two different ways:

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Curation
preservation
Information Management and Preservation
Discipline: 
Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
By neil.grindley at Mon, 30/07/2007 - 12:21

wikipage: Archiving and Representation (Performance)

Archiving and preserving performance and installation art works is a challenging proposition which increases with the amount of technological complexity that is included in the original conception of the work.

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Documentation
preservation
Discipline: 
Dance Studies
Drama and Theatre Studies
Music
By neil.grindley at Thu, 26/07/2007 - 12:58

blog: data ticking time bomb

Archivist, librarians and others concerned with the preservation of digital objects have been aware of problems such as proprietary file formats or accessing data on old data storage mediums for a lon

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sustainability
preservation
By Torsten Reimer at Thu, 05/07/2007 - 13:40

project: Virtual Vellum

Grant Holder:
Virtual Vellum is an e Science demonstrator project that has been funded by EPSRC/JISC/Arts & Humanities e-Science Initiative and the UK e Science Core Programme with the aim of promoting and demonstrating the use of technology within arts and humanities research. The aim of the project is to investigate technologies that facilitate the retrieval, manipulation and annotation/hotspotting of very high resolution image datasets (typically greater than 8k x 6k pixels). Each dataset may consist of many hundred images, such as those from digitised manuscripts. [read more]

project: The Online Froissart Project

Grant Holder: Professor PF Ainsworth
The Online Froissart is a joint project based in the French Departments of the Universities of Sheffield and Liverpool. It is delivering an interactive, searchable edition of Books I-III of Jean Froissart's Chronicles, the most important prose history in French of the Hundred Years' War, covering the years 1325-1390. [read more]

project: A Linguistic 'Time-Capsule': The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English

Grant Holder: Prof. Karen Corrigan
The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE) resource amalgamated and future-proofed two discrete sets of spoken data including recordings from people born within the Tyneside conurbation between 1890 and 1970. The overarching aim was to improve access to and promote the re-use of NECTE by producing an electronic public database resource in a variety of aligned formats which can be accessed according to user need via a gatekeeping system so as to fully comply with the Data Protection Act. [read more]

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