Michael Miner, “The Sun-Times Preserves Its Photo Archive By Selling It,” blog post May 6, 2010. Available in Course Documents. Gunther Waibel, “Stewardship for Digital Images,” The Digital Museum. Available in Course Documents. Erway, Ricky. 2012. You've Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research. . Examine: National Archives and Records Administration, Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files – Raster Images. Available at: Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Cataloging and Digitizing Toolbox, Available at: Kit Peterson, Digital Master Images - Sample Technical Specifications for Photograph Collections. Available at: FYI: , “The Next Age of Discovery,” Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2009. Available in Course Documents. Eric Felten, “Whose Art Is It, Anyway?” Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2009. Available in Course Documents. Mike Elgan, “Is That the Library of Congress in Your Pocket?” Computer World, January 1, 2010. Available in Course Documents. March 4 Unit 6: AMERICANA Special Events Room, McKeldin Library 6:00pm March 11 Unit 7: Digital Reformatting – Audio, Video and other formats Guest: Kate Murray, NARA
: Jeff Rothenberg, “Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents,” Scientific American, January 1995, p. 42-47 (e-reserve) Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at … Digital Preservation,” D-Lib Magazine 10:7/8 (July/August 2004). Available at: Certification of Digital Repositories in RLG DigiNews, 9:5 (October 2005). Read Special Issue Introduction and Feature Articles 1, 2 and 3. Available at: Ronald Jantz and Michael J. Giarlo, “Digital Preservation: Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories,” D-Lib Magazine, 11:6 (June 2005). Available at: (Also applicable the week of April 1.) Examine; Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Richard Ovenden, Gabriela Redwine with research assistance from Rachel Donahue, Digital Foresnics and Content in Cultural Heritage Collections, CLIR pub 149, December 2010. Available at: FYI: “Tech history is one big format war,” Bismark Tribune, Nov 05, 2007. Available in Course Documents. Tom Coughlin, “Storing Information for a Thousand Years,” Forbes, October 28, 2011. Available in Course Documents. March 25 SPRING BREAK April 1 Personal Digital Materials Report due Unit 9: Preserve Technology Data rescue, Media archeology, reverse engineering : Stewart Granger, “Emulation as a Digital Preservation Strategy,” D-Lib Magazine, 6:10 (October 2000). Available at: Jeffrey van der Hoeven, Bram Lohman, Remco Verdegem, “Emulation for Digital Preservation in Practice: The Results,” International Journal of Digital Curation, 2:2 (2007). Available at:
Richard Entlich, “Too Close for Comfort? The Case for Off-site Storage,” RLG DigiNews, 9:6 (December 2005). Available at: Charles Piller, “Unable to Repeat the Past; Storing information is easier than ever, but it's also never been so easy to lose it -- forever. We could end up with a modern history gap.” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2006. Available in Course Documents. erpa guidance, Selecting Technologies Tool, September 2003. Available at: (select and download this study) Patricia Cohen, “Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit,” New York Times, March 15, 2010. Available in Course Documents. Examine: The Digital Curation Centre at: . See especially Curation Policies, Resource Centre, Tools and Standards, and Research and Development. The Online Computer Library Consortium (OCLC) at: Tom Dale, “E-gads! E-gone! Put Digital Preservation on Your Radar,” edoc Magazine, July/August 2005. Available on Course Documents. April 8 Unit 10: Preserve Objects : Catherine Ayre and Adrienne Muir, “The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation,” D-Lib Magazine, 10:3 (March 2004). Available at: Karen Coyle, “The ‘Rights’ in Digital Rights Management,” D-Lib Magazine 10:9 (September 2004). Available at: Phil Mellor, “CAMiLEON: Emulation and BBC Domesday,” RLG DigiNews, 7:2 (April 2003). Available at: erpa workshop, The Long-term Preservation of Databases, April 2003. Available at: Heather Chaplain, "Is that Just Some Game? No, It's a Cultural Artifact." New York Times, 12 March 2007. Available in Course Documents. Examine: Fedora Available at:
May 6 Unit 14: Challenges for the Future : D. Cull, "Conservation on the Cyber Frontier", e-conservation magazine, No. 11 (2009) pp. 18-25. Available at: Jonas Palm, “The Digital Black Hole,” in TAPE Project. Available at: James Currall and Peter McKinney, “Investing in Value,” D-Lib Magazine, 12:4 (April 2006). Available at: Shelby Sanett, “The Cost to Preserve Authentic Electronic Records in Perpetuity: Comparing Costs Across Cost Models and Cost Frameworks,” RLG DigiNews, 7:4 (August 2003). Available at: erpa guidance, Cost Orientation Tool. Available at: (select and download this study) Christopehr A Lee and Helen Tibbo, “Where’s the Archivist in Digital Curation? Exploring the Possibilities through a Matrix of Knowledge and Skills,” Archivaria 72 (2011) 123-168. Available in e-reserves. Examine: NISO, “A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections” Available at: FYI: Conrad De Aenlle, “Digital Archivists, Now in Demand,” NY Times, February 7, 2009. Available in Course Documents. May13: Take Home final due