digital preservation

centre: Humanities Research Institute (HRI)

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Institution: 
University of Sheffield
About the centre:

The award-winning Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield is one of the leading providers of research and development services for the digital Arts and Humanities. With over 16 years experience, our mission is to support the innovative use of technology within Arts and Humanities research as both a method of inquiry and a means of dissemination. [read more...]

blog: Categorizing Motivations for Preserving Digital Objects

I'm currently thinking about the 'Significant Properties' of digital objects. This terminology has been bandied around for some years now but has recently been referred to by a number of JISC-funded projects and studies, chief amongst which is the INSPECT project, based at CeRch (previously the AHDS). [read more...]

biblio: Digital Tools for Performance

Publication Type  Web Article
Year of Publication  2007
Authors / Editors  Grindley, Neil
URL  http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/redist/pdf/wkp07.pdf

biblio: Digital Tools for Museums and Cultural Heritage

Publication Type  Web Article
Year of Publication  2007
Authors / Editors  Grindley, Neil
URL  http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/redist/pdf/wkp09.pdf

biblio: The Digitization of Primary Textual Sources

Publication Type  Book
Year of Publication  1993
Authors / Editors  Robinson, P. M.
City  Oxford

biblio: Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, And Presenting the Past on the Web

Publication Type  Book
Year of Publication  2005
Authors / Editors  Cohen, Dan; Rosenzweig, Roy
Number of Pages  316
URL  http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/index.php

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

07/11/2007 - 09:00
10/11/2007 - 17:00
America/Chicago

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? [read more...]

event: Tools and Trends

01/11/2007 - 08:30
02/11/2007 - 14:30
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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 [read more...]

event: Future Histories of the Moving Image

16/11/2007
18/11/2007
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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. [read more...]

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. [read more...]

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