"The old version flickers more": Digital preservation from the user's perspective

American Archivist

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 159-187

  Hedstrom, Margaret L ^a   Lee, Christopher A ^a   Olson, Judith S ^a   Lampe, Clifford A ^a  

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EID: 50049084596     PISSN: 03609081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.69.1.1765364485n41800     Document Type: Article

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7. CAMiLEON was an International Digital Library Initiative Project funded by the National Science Foundation, award number 99-05935 and the Joint Information Systems Committee from 1999 to 2003.
8. CAMiLEON (pronounced like chameleon) stands for Creative Archiving at Michigan and Leeds: Emulating the Old on the New. Additional papers and reports from the CAMiLEON project are archived at www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/.
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15. Bearman, "Reality and Chimeras."
16. Members of the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) project introduced the concept of significant properties. David Holdsworth and Derek M. Sergeant, "A Blueprint for Representation Information in the OAIS Model," paper presented at the 17th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, College Park, Maryland, 27-30 March 2000.
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33. Peter B. Hirtle, "Archival Authenticity in a Digital Age," in Authenticity in a Digital Environment (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000), 8-23;
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38. Nancy Brodie, "Authenticity, Preservation and Access in Digital Collections," paper presented at Preservation 2000: An International Conference on the Preservation and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials, York, U.K., 7-8 December 2000;
39. Heather MacNeil, "Providing Grounds for Trust: Developing Conceptual Requirements for the Long-Term Preservation of Authentic Electronic Records," Archivaria 50 (Fall 2000): 52-78;
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47. One pioneering work that collected users' perceptions of the authenticity of documents that were reproduced on paper from a digital database is Mark D. Giguere, Electronic Document Description Standards: A Technical Feasibility Study of Their Use in the Microform Preservation of Contextual Cues Embedded in Structured Electronic Documents During Digital/Analog/Digital Reformatting, PhD diss. State University of New York at Albany, December 1995.
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56. For one analysis of how historians integrate digital resources into the research process, see Wendy M. Duff, Barbara Craig, and Joan Cherry, "Historians' Use of Archival Sources: Promises and Pitfalls of the Digital Age," Public Historian 26, no. 2 (2004): 7-22.
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58. Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things (New York: Doubleday, 1990), 9.
59. For the original formulation of the concept of affordances, see James J. Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979).
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62. Catherine Beavis, "Computer Games, Culture, and Curriculum," in Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era, ed. Ilana Snyder (New York: Routledge, 1998), 234-55;
63. and Geoffrey Rockwell, "Games Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games," Computers and the Humanities 36 (2002): 345-58.
64. The classic work on this issue is Sherry Turkle, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984).
65. Menne-Haritz and Nils Brübach, Intrinsic Value of Archive and Library Material;
66. O'Toole, "Symbolic Significance of Archives";
67. and Nicholson Baker, Doublefold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (New York: Random House, 2001).
68. The collection included 16 linear feet of paper records and 2,144 digital files created in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and MORE. Nancy M. Deromedi and Kathy L. Steiner, "Finding Aid for James J. Duderstadt Papers, 1963-1997" (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Bentley Historical Library, 1998).
69. James J. Duderstadt, interview by Clifford Lampe, 5 July 2001.
70. Paul Wheatley, "Migration: A CAMiLEON Discussion Paper," Ariadne 29 (September 2001) available at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue29/ camileon/.
71. Deromedi and Steiner, "Finding Aid for James J. Duderstadt Papers."