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This wiki space contains archival documentation of Project Bamboo, April 2008 - March 2013.
This theme covers a spectrum of scholarly activities undertaken against research materials, from simple digital or analog storage, use of repositories and other library or museum services, aspects of "data" curation, and longer-term archiving and preserving objects of scholarly interest. Many other activities assume the presence of a storage capability, so that Gathered materials persist for the duration of the research project and possibly beyond. In fact, some scholarly activity has as its end-goal the creation of a curated store of materials that can then be Shared or Presented. So storage seems fundamental to the use of research materials.
Some storage is temporary, such as one's Zotero collection. The drive towards digitizing materials and creating new "born-digital" works provides new challenges for Archiving. Archiving brings the long-term preservation aspect that Store may or may not include; see the OAIS Reference Model for details. Preserving objects of cultural interest to arts and humanities scholars has been a central activity of libraries, museums, and collectors for centuries. Capability to preserve cultural objects in digital formats -- addressing storage capacity; accessibility; and frequent churn in digital formats, media, and tools that turn bits into humanly-recognizable artifacts -- is a core requirement of digital scholarship.
This theme is a merger of Store, Archiving, and Preserve objects of scholarly interest.
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Name(s) |
Institution(s) |
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Proposed/originated by: |
Jim Muehlenberg ("Store") |
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison |
Proposed/originated by: |
Quinn Dombrowski ("Archiving") |
University of Chicago |
Proposed/originated by: |
Steve Masover ("Preserve objects of scholarly interest") |
UC Berkeley |
Current facilitator(s) |
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Description - what is it? |
URL or other reference |
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DSpace |
"DSpace captures your data in any format - in text, video, audio, and data. It distributes it over the web. It indexes your work, so users can search and retrieve your items. It preserves your digital work over the long term." (quoted by Steve Masover) |
dspace.org |
Fedora Commons |
"Fedora Commons provides sustainable technologies to create, manage, publish, share and preserve digital content as a basis for intellectual, organizational, scientific and cultural heritage [...]" (quoted by Steve Masover) |
fedora-commons.org |
Nuxeo |
"Nuxeo 5 is a robust, extensible, global, standards-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution available as Open Source Software (OSS). Nuxeo 5 is based on other open source software, notably from the Apache Foundation, the JBoss Group (a division of Red Hat) and the Eclipse Foundation, and developed in a truly open manner." (quoted by Steve Masover on referral from Patrick Schmitz) |
nuxeo.org |
OASIS CMIS |
An OASIS Charter Proposalfor Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) submitted on 10 Sep 2008 is intended to allow content management systems from different vendors to interact, providing greater flexibility for enterprise customers. Proposers included folks from EMC, IBM, Oracle, OpenText, Alfresco, and Microsoft. In the current scope it is notintended to cover Digital Asset Management use cases, but is probably worth paying attention to. (posted by Steve Masover on referral from Patrick Schmitz) |
CMIS Charter Proposal |
Datakeurmerk |
"In consultation with large data producers and managers, DANS laid down what those requirements need to be in its Datakeurmerk (Data Seal of Approval)" (Steve Masover, from referral by Chad Kainz) |
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PRESTOSPACE |
Preservation towards storage and access. Standardised Practices for Audiovisual Contents Archiving in Europe. / The objective of the project is to provide technical devices and systems for digital preservation of all types of audio-visual collections. |
http://prestospace.org/ |
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Description - what is it? |
URL or other reference |
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sound_byte_name_or_description (your_name) |
summary_description (your_name) |
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Description - what is it? |
Why is it in scope? |
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sound_byte_name_or_description (your_name) |
summary_description (your_name) |
explanation_of_why_in_scope (your_name) |
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Description - what is it? |
Why is it out of scope? |
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Building repository infrastructure (Steve Masover) |
Building repository systems that perform the basic functions of storing digital objects. |
This is a well-populated area of work (cf. dspace and fedora-commons) that Bamboo doesn't need to replicate |
References (e.g., material from Workshop 1 notes or flipcharts) |
Contributor |
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Steve Masover |
Cathy Marshall's paper From Writing and Analysis to the Repository: Taking the Scholars' Perspective on Scholarly Archiving"focuses on the kinds of artifacts the researchers create in the process of writing a paper, how they exchange and store materials over the short term, how they handle references and bibliographic resources, and the strategies they use to guarantee the long term safety of their scholarly materials. The findings reveal: (1) the adoption of a new CIM infrastructure relies crucially on whether it compares favorably to email along six critical dimensions; (2) personal scholarly archives should be maintained as a side-effect of collaboration and the role of ancillary material such as datasets remains to be worked out; and (3) it is vital to consider agency when we talk about depositing new types of scholarly materials into disciplinary repositories." |
Steve Masover |
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Steve Masover |
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Jim Muehlenberg |
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Steve Masover |
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Quinn Dombrowski |
1 Comment
Unknown User (nls36)
There are many excellent tools and approaches identified here but just somc concerns in terms of who will provide leadership, stewardship and co-ordination of preservation stategies for the project?
Subject to existing metadata standards, which help to support the implementation work, how can we work towards developing some specific co-ordinated data management strategies which address the digital preservation needs of Arts and Humanities research?
Will the expectation be that local digital preservation and hosting strategies at partner level be implemented or should we not be working to have these these co-ordinated at national/international scale? What are the overheads for local solutions?