Independent Study - Access to Born-Digital Architectural Records
This independent study supplemented other coursework taken in the MS in Library and Information Science program at Simmons College. The study focused on preservation and access for digital architecture and design records such as computer aided design (CAD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM), and resulted in a 49-page paper on the subject entitled “Preservation and Access of Born-Digital Architectural Design Records in an OAIS-Type Archive.”
Reading list
Week One: Survey/Introductory Materials
Readings
- Rothenberg, Jeff. ”Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Information,” RAND report, 1999 revision.
- Bailey, Mary Courtney. ”Bridging the Gap: Handling Born-Digital Records in Manuscript Repositories,” UNC Master’s thesis, 2013.
- ”AIMS Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship,” White Paper, 2012.
Videos
- Cal Lee discusses the curation of digital media
- CNI: How Are We Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents?
- Jeff Rothenberg Digital Preservation in Perspective How far have we come and what’s next
Week Two: The Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model
Readings
- Lavoie, Brian. ”The Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model: Introductory Guide (2nd Edition),” DPC Technology Watch Report, 2014.
- Lee, Christopher (Cal). ”Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model,” Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition, 2010.
- ”Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS),” Magenta Book, 2012.
Week Three: Digital Repositories and Storage
Readings
- Rosenthal, David, et al. ”Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems: A Bottom-Up Approach,” D-Lib Magazine 11, no. 11, 2005.
- Castagné, Michel. ”Institutional repository software comparison: Dspace, Eprints, Digital Commons, Islandora and Hydra,” Unpublished University of British Columbia manuscript, 2013.
- Lagoze, Carl, Sandy Peyette, Edwin Shin, and Chris Wilper. ”Fedora: an architecture for complex objects and their relationships,” International Journal on Digital Libraries 6, no. 2, 2006.
- ”The Fedora Digital Object Model,” Fedora Release 3.0.
- Awre, Chris and Tom Cramer. ”Building the Hydra Together: Enhancing Repository Provision through Multi-Institutional Collaboration,” JODI: Journal of Digital Information 13, no. 1, 2012.
- Woods, Kam, Christopher Lee, and Simson Garfinkel, ”Extending Digital Repository Architectures to Support Disk Image Preservation and Access,” Proceedings of the 11th Annual International ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital libraries, 2011.
Videos
Additional recommended readings
- Gallagher, Sean. ”The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data,” ArsTechnica, Jan 26, 2012.
- Rosenthal, David. ”Talk at Fall CNI: Improving the Odds of Preservation,” DSHR’s Blog, December 9, 2014
- Rosenthal, David, et al. ”The Economics of Long-Term Digital Storage,” Paper presented at Memory of the World in the Digital Age. September 26-28, 2012, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Week Four: Digital Materiality, Forensics, and the Question of Authenticity
Readings
- Trace, Ciaran. ”Beyond the Magic to the Mechanism: Computers, Materiality, and What it Means for Records to Be ‘Born Digital’,” Archivaria 72, 2011.
- Kirschenbaum, Matthew, Richard Ovenden, and Gabriela Redwine. ”Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Institutions,” Council on Library and Information Resources, 2010.
- Gengenbach, Martin. “The Way We Do It Here: Mapping Digital Forensics Workflows in Collecting Institutions,” UNC Master’s thesis, 2012.
Videos
Additional recommended readings
- Kirschenbaum, Matthew. Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Boston: MIT, 2008.
- Laue, Andrea. ”How the Computer Works,” in A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
- Forensics Wiki
- Bell, Graeme and Richard Boddington. “Solid State Drives: The Beginning of the End for Current Practice in Digital Forensic Recovery?” Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law 5, no. 3, 2010.
- Durno, John and Jerry Trofimchuk. ”Digital Forensics on a shoestring: a case study from the University of Victoria,” code4lib Journal 27, 2015.
Week Five: Architecture and Architectural Archives
Readings
- Lowell, Waverly and Tawny Ryan Nelb. Architectural Records: Managing Design and Construction Records. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006.
- International Council on Archives, Section on Architectural Records. A Guide to the Archival Care of Architectural Records, 19th-20th Centuries. Paris: ICA, 2000.
- Lathrop, Alan. ”The Provenance and Preservation of Architectural Records,” The American Archivist 43, no. 3, 1980.
- Olsberg, Nicholas. ”Documenting Twentieth-Century Architecture: Crisis and Opportunity,” The American Archivist 59, no. 2, 1996.
- Gawne, Eleanor. ”Cataloguing Architectural Drawings,” Journal of the Society of Archivists 24, no. 2, 2003.
Additional recommended readings
- The American Archivist 59, no. 2: Special Issue on Architecture, 1996.
- Hadley, Nancy. ”Records Management for Architecture Firms: A Resource Guide,” American Institute of Architects.
- Nelson, Tara. ”Project File Organization,” American Institute of Architects.
Weeks Six and Seven: Born-Digital Architectural Records and their Stewardship
Readings
- Ball, Alex. ”Preserving Computer-Aided Design (CAD),” DPC Technology Watch Report 13-02, April 2013.
- Barrett, Anne. ”Born-digital Architectural Records: Defining the Archivable Record,” UNC Master’s Thesis, 2012.
- Mitchell, William. ”Architectural Archives in the Digital Era,” American Archivist 59, no. 2, 1996.
- Smith, MacKenzie. ”Curating Architectural 3D CAD Models,” The International Journal of Digital Curation 1, vol. 4, 2008.
- Massachusetts Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records (MassCOPAR). Blueprints to Bytes: Architectural Records in the Electronic Age. Proceedings of a Public Program held on March 12, 1999, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
- CADAZZ. ”CAD software - history of CAD CAM,” 2004.
- Bozdoc, Marian. ”The History of CAD,” 2003.
- Carlson, Wayne. ”Section 10: CAD/CAM/CADD/CAE,” in A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation, 2003.
- Bergin, Michael S. ”A Brief History of BIM,” archdaily, December 7, 2012.
Videos
- Lynn, Greg, Peter Stamberg, Paul Aferiat, Wes Jones, Douglas Garofalo, Jessie Reiser, Preston Scott Cohen, Joel Sanders, Susan Kolatan, William MacDonald, Gregg Pasquarelli, Christopher and William Sharples. The new modernists— folds, blobs and boxes: architecture in the digital era, 2014.
- The Foundations of Digital Architecture: Chuck Hoberman
Additional recommended reading
- LOTAR International, LOng Term Archiving and Retrieval - LOTAR.
- Weisberg, David. The Engineering Design Revolution.
- Leventhal, Aliza. ”Collaborative Preservation Efforts of CAD/BIM Files,” Imaging and Science Technology 2013 proceedings, 2013.
- FACADE2 Final Report, 2013.
- Art Institute of Chicago. Digital Design Data project page (report in multiple sections), 2007.
Week Eight: Emulation for Preservation and Access
Readings
- Guttenbrunner, Mark and Andreas Rauber. ”A Measurement Framework for Evaluating Emulators for Digital Preservation,” ACM Transactions on Information Systems 20, no. 2, 2012.
- von Suchodoletz, Dirk, Mark Guttenbrunner, and Klaus Rechert. ”Report on the first iPres Workshop on Practical Emulation Tools and Strategies,” D-Lib Magazine 19, no. 3/4, 2013.
- Doyle, Julie, Herna Viktor, and Eric Paquet. ”Long-term digital preservation: preserving authenticity and usability of 3-D data,” International Journal on Digital Libraries 10, no. 1, 2009.
- Carroll, Laura, Erika Farr, Peter Hornsby, and Ben Ranker. ”A Comprehensive Approach to Born-Digital Archives,” Archivaria 72, 2011.
- Lazorchak, Butch. “The Foundations of Emulation as a Service: An Interview with Dirk von Suchodoletz,” The Signal: Digital Preservation blog - Part One and Part Two, 2012.
- von Suchodoletz, Dirk, Klaus Rechert, and Maurice van den Dobbelsteen. ”Software archives as a vital base for digital preservation strategies,” in The 5th International Conference on Open Repositories, Madrid, Spain, July 6-9, 2010.
- Scott, Jason. ”The Emularity,” ASCII: Jason Scott’s Weblog, 2015.
- Scott, Jason. ”Behold the Emularity,” ASCII: Jason Scott’s weblog, 2015.
- Scott, Jason. ”What a Wonder is a Terrible Monitor,” ASCII: Jason Scott’s Weblog, 2012.
- Johnston, Leslie. ”What are We Going to do About Hardware?” The Signal: Digital Preservation blog, 2013.
- Salomon, Charlotte Abney. ”Save File,” 2015(?).
Videos
Additional recommended readings
- Anderson, David, Janet Delve, and Dan Pinchbeck. ”Toward a Workable Emulation-Based Preservation Strategy: Rationale and Technical Metadata,” New Review of Information Networking 15, 2010.
- von Suchodoletz, Dirk, Euan Cochrane, and Mike Crouch. “Database preservation using emulation: a case study,” Archifacts, 2013.
- University of Freiburg. bwFLA - Emulation as a Service.
- Spencer, Ross. ”We don’t do migration for the future; we do it for the present: Emulation and an ever so slightly unsatisfying success story,” Open Preservation Foundation, 2013.
- thomas. ”EaaS: Image and Object Archive — Requirements, Implementation and Example Use-Cases,” Open Preservation Foundation, 2014.
- Wikipedia. List of virtual machine software.
Week Nine: Discovery, Access, and Use of Born-Digital Archives
- Bailey, Jefferson. ”Disrespect des Fonds: Rethinking Arrangement and Description in Born-Digital Archives,” Archive Journal 3: Archives Remixed, 2013.
- Zhang, Jane and Dayne Mauney. ”When Archival Description Meets Digital Object Metadata: A Typological Study of Digital Archival Representation,” The American Archivist 76, no. 1, 2013.
- Light, Michelle. “Managing Risk with a Virtual Reading Room: Two Born-Digital Projects,” in Reference and Access: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections, ed. Kate Theimer. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
- Goldman, Ben and Timothy Pyatt. ”Security without Obscurity: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Born-Digital Archives,” Library & Archival Security 26, no. 1/2, 2013.
- Misra, Sunitha, Christopher A. Lee and Kam Woods. ”A Web Service for File-level Access to Disk Images within a Web Browser,” code4lib Journal 25, 2014.
- Groth, Jason Evans. ”Discovering Born Digital Collections,” North Carolina State University Special Collections News blog, 2015.
- Hedstrom, Margaret, Christopher Lee, Judith Olson, and Clifford Lampe. ”‘The Old Version Flickers More’: Digital Preservation from the User’s Perspective,” The American Archivist 69, no. 1, 2006.
Additional recommended readings
- Callahan, Maureen. ”The Value of Archival Description Considered,” Chaos->Order, 2014.
- Kirschenbaum, Matthew. ”the .txtual condition: Digital Humanities, Born-Digital Archives, and the Future Library,” DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 7, no. 1, 2013.
- Moser, Benjamin. ”In the Sontag Archives,” The New Yorker, January 30, 2014.