Training & Reading Material

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Published on Monday, 22 August 2011 21:47

Simulations & Visualisations

Training Material

• Planets Training Materials [zip]
  material delivered in the “Digital Preservation – The Planets Way” training courses

Reading Material

• Digital Folklore Preserved for the Future [pdf]
  A Case Study of the Use of Planets in Preserving the Digital Collection of the Danish Folklore Archives, The Royal Library, Denmark
• The Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands and the Use of Emulation [pdf]
  A Study of the Use of Planets in Preserving the Digital Collection of the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands
• Integrating Planets and Fedora Commons [pdf]
  A Case Study of Integration of Planets Characterisation Services with the Digital Object Management System of The State and University Library, Denmark
• The Future of the Past – Shaping new visions for EU-research in digital preservation [pdf]
  Report on the Proceedings of the Workshop Organised by the unit Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning of the European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate-General; Luxembourg, 4 – 5 May 2011
• Towards a workable emulation-based preservation strategy: rationale and technical metadata [pdf]
• Suggested further reading [pdf]
• Glossary [pdf]

Presentation slides

• Andrew Ball: Data Security and Complex Governance [pdf]
• David Anderson: Legal Issues Surrounding Software Preservation [pdf]
• Jenny Mitcham: Preservation of complex digital objects at the ADS [pdf]
• John Clarke: Oplontis - a "born digital" project [pdf]
• Kenton McHenry: Polyglot (noun): one who is capable of speaking or writing many languages [pdf]
• William Kilbride: Digital preservation strategies for visualisation and simulation [pdf]
• Clive Billenness: Digital Preservation in Europe: The Next 8 Years; The Era of Emulation ? [pdf]
• The KEEP Team: Data Modelling, Database Design, Implementation and Population: Some results from the KEEP Project [pdf]
• Richard Beacham: The challenge of preserving the past [pdf]

Software Art

In addition to the resources above, you can use the following reading material for the Software Art symposium:

• The Media Art Notation System: Documenting and Preserving Digital/Media Art
  This paper by Richard Rinehart proposes a new approach to conceptualizing digital and media art forms. This theoretical approach will be explored through issues raised in the process of creating a formal declarative model (alternately known as a metadata framework, notation system or ontology) for digital and media art.
• Preservation of Dynamic and Interactive Content by use of Binary Translation and Virtualisation
  This Planets report by Leo Konstantelos presents a study that moves beyond migration and emulations, by exploring the possibilities of binary translation and virtualisation to preserve dynamic and interactive content.
• Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art
  This report presents a summary of discussion group sessions of a Colloquium co-organized by the Lunder Conservation Center of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Online recourses

• MeLa: European Museums and Libraries in/of the Age of Migrations
  MeLa is a four-year research project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme, which aims to delineate new approaches for museums and libraries in a context characterized by the continuous migration of people and ideas. Its main objectives are to advance knowledge in the field and to support museum and library communities, practitioners, experts and policymakers in developing new missions and forms of museums and libraries “in the age of migration”.
• CAiRO: Curating Artistic Research Output
  The CAiRO (Curating Artistic Research Output) project has come to its close and has released its outcomes. CAiRO has created a post-graduate teaching module aimed at meeting the needs of the creative arts researcher. Content includes guidance on issues identified as important by arts researchers themselves, including: copyright, ethics, metadata, file formats, sharing data, meeting funders expectations and facilitating research assessment.
• Managing performance data and documentation
  Training material from a seminar that took place on Thursday 17th February 2011, as part of the JISC Incremental project. The event brought together researchers and performers working in the live and performing arts across the UK, to inspire and provide guidance for better management of their research data.
• Data Management Skills Support Initiative (DaMSSI)
  The JISC/RIN-funded Data Management Skills Support Initiative (DaMSSI), in collaboration with DCC, has now completed its work. DaMSSI produced a series of five career profiles that aim to demonstrate how data management skills contribute to and underpin high-quality performance in a number of professions. Of particular interest here is the Conservator career profile.

Presentation Slides

1. Ann Gow: HATII Welcome to the POCOS Symposium [pdf]
2. Mark O'Neill: Regenerating Glasgow through Cultural and Creative Industries [pdf]
3. Richard Rinehart: Artworks as Variability Machines [pdf]
4. boredomresearch: Best Before... [pdf]
5. Michael Takeo Magruder: Between Code and Space [pdf]
6. Perla Innocenti: Bridging the gap: nterdisciplinary reflections and potential collaborations for preserving computer-based artworks
7. Michael Fourman: Keeping Everything Digital [pdf]
8. Simon Biggs: Make or Break [pdf]

Reports from Breakout Sessions

• The role of cultural institutions: Interpretation and Documentation (metadata)
• The role of cultural institutions: Storage media, file format, emulation and virtualisation

Gaming Environments & Virtual Worlds

Presentation slides

• Angela Dappert: TIMBUS: Metadata for Preserving Computing Environments [pdf]
• Janet Delve: Preserving Gaming Environments via TOTEM, KEEP and Bletchley Park [pdf]
• Neil Grindley: JISC Digital Infrastructure [pdf]
• Jerome McDonough: A Tangled Web: Metadata and Problems in Games Preservation [pdf]
• Dan Pinchbeck: Standing on the Shoulders of Heavily Armed Giants: Why History Matters to Games Developers [pdf]
• Richard Bartle: Archeology versus Anthropology:  What Can Truly be Preserved ? [pdf]
• Paul Wheatley: Donkey Gone? A View From the British Library on Videogame Preservation [pdf]
• Tom Woolley: Curatorial Issues in Preserving Games for Museum Collections and Public Display [pdf]