{"title":"Developing a Code of Ethics for the Digital Repository of Ireland","authors":"J. Carroll","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1114838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1114838","url":null,"abstract":"Codes of ethics reflect the core values of an organization; with the variety of data, staff, and contributors working with the DRI, its ethical code must be wide-ranging enough to reflect its diverse nature, but specific enough to effectively guide the reader to a morally sound conclusion in the face of an ethical problem. Reviewing the reasons for a code of ethics, the methods involved, the challenges, the expected outcomes, and organizational input, this article will relay the experience of writing a professional code of ethics for the Digital Repository of Ireland.","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":"20 1","pages":"48 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1114838","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60361379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Digital Archive of Cultural Heritage Objects: Standardized Metadata and Annotation Categories","authors":"Elisabeth Steiner, Carina Koch","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1112171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1112171","url":null,"abstract":"The project “Repository of Styrian Cultural Heritage” aims to build a digital archive of cultural heritage objects. The implementation of a common platform poses two challenges: 1) the partners use more than one preservation infrastructure, which requires a consensus for harvesting mechanisms and update workflows; and 2) the nature of the digital objects ranges from manuscripts or other text-based resources to artifacts from various contexts. With respect to information retrieval and in order to implement a uniform object representation, a consistent data basis is obligatory. In this context, the article will introduce our approaches to content curation and quality control.","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":"20 1","pages":"255 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1112171","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60359459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shaping our Legacy: Preserving the Social and Cultural Record","authors":"Natalie Harrower","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1117310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1117310","url":null,"abstract":"The shape of our social and cultural record is changing, but the value of preserving it for continued and long-term access is only increasing in urgency. Much of this record is now born-digital, an...","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":"20 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1117310","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60361531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Corns, A. Deevy, G. Devlin, L. Kennedy, R. Shaw
{"title":"3D-ICONS: Digitizing Cultural Heritage Structures","authors":"A. Corns, A. Deevy, G. Devlin, L. Kennedy, R. Shaw","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1115232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1115232","url":null,"abstract":"As a partner in the EU co-funded 3D-ICONS project, the Discovery Programme has surveyed a wide range of the iconic cultural heritage sites in Ireland. This project aimed to establish a complete pipeline for the production of 3D replicas of archaeological monuments and historic buildings, and to publish the content to Europeana for public access. Challenges discussed include: making such high resolution data sets available to the public to enable online interaction and via the web, creating suitable and representative metadata and IPR frameworks for 3D cultural heritage data.","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":"20 1","pages":"59 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1115232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60361652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performances, Preservation, and Policy Implications: Digital Curation and Preservation Awareness and Strategy in the Performing Arts","authors":"L. Molloy","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1115297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1115297","url":null,"abstract":"Digital assets in contemporary performing arts practice may suffer damage and disappearance, eroding the record of contemporary practice. This study seeks to assess this threat and suggest solutions. We examined digital curation and preservation awareness and practice in a sample of performing arts professionals, establishing that digital objects are highly prized but levels of sustainable digital curation and preservation practice are low. We argue that competent digital curation and preservation is relevant to arts career sustainability, research, and wider cultural heritage. This article is intended to be relevant to policy and skills development in communities of creative practice beyond the academy.","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":"204 1","pages":"179 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1115297","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60361401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparing Bilingual Metadata for a Bilingual Repository","authors":"Rosemary Coll, Seathrún Ó Tuairisg","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1110398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1110398","url":null,"abstract":"The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is Ireland’s national trusted digital repository for the social and cultural, historical and contemporary data held by Irish institutions. DRI provides users with a bilingual (Irish and English) user interface at all user access levels, and provides innovative ways to process and display bilingual metadata. This article details our experience in enriching the bilingual metadata and developing the bilingual features of the repository. We present solutions to some of the linguistic and technical challenges we faced and provide recommendations to developers and archivists on how best to prepare bilingual content for contemporary archival repositories.","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":"28 1","pages":"53 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1110398","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60359284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media Archives and Digital Preservation: Overcoming Cultural Barriers","authors":"Beth Delaney, A. de Jong","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1112626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1112626","url":null,"abstract":"Media archives have begun implementing digital preservation processes and strategies. However, a robust take-up of digital preservation standards such as OAIS has not occurred. A key question is whether or not implementing these standards is relevant in all media archives. Six media archives, representing three different “types”—broadcast, hybrid and national libraries—were studied to gain a better understanding of how digital preservation norms fit into their mission, what drives their requirements, and whether in fact digital preservation is relevant to their main “business.”","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":"20 1","pages":"73 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1112626","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60360196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preserving Born Digital Art: Lessons From Artists’ Practice","authors":"C. McGarrigle","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1113055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1113055","url":null,"abstract":"This article looks at the complex nature of developing effective and appropriate strategies for the preservation of born digital art, in particular networked art. These issues are approached from the perspective of artist practitioners as it is suggested that any preservation strategy begins with artists, with the conservation practices that are inculcated into the very act of creation. This article proposes that this necessitates institutional digital art conservation initiatives originating from a pre-existing culture of preservation within digital art communities. Color versions of one or more of the figures in the article can be found online at www.tandfonline.com/rinn","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":"20 1","pages":"170 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1113055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60360347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practicing Digitization at the National Library of Israel","authors":"Sharon Ringel, Rivka Ribak","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1113056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1113056","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we offer some analytical comments on the digitization of the National Library of Israel (NLI), which has been converting materials into digital formats since 2007. This research draws upon Actor-Network Theory and is based on participant observation within the Digitization Center of the NLI. Specifically, we ask how human and non-human actors—namely scanning technicians and graphic designers, scanners, manuscripts and ephemera—are co-embedded in the production of the corpus that will likely be the basis for historical accounts in the future; and what their inter-relationships can tell us about the digitization of heritage.","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":"20 1","pages":"236 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1113056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60360832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking Back to Move Forward: Measuring the Impact of Existing Digital Resources Relevant to Irish Archaeology","authors":"T. Bolger","doi":"10.1080/13614576.2015.1113059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1113059","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of digital resources is an important manifestation of data sharing and knowledge sharing practice. There is an increasing recognition of the importance of understanding the actual impact of these resources on research and research practice. Impact assessment methodologies are emerging from this nascent scholarship and offer a means of demonstrating performance and utility. This study took a multi-strand approach, inspired by the Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (TIDSR), to evaluate seven digital resources relating to Irish archaeology. The results indicated significant factors that can influence the impact of a digital resource, positively or negatively.","PeriodicalId":35726,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Information Networking","volume":"20 1","pages":"16 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614576.2015.1113059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60360932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}