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INF 392K Digital Archiving and preservation - Texts, Spring 2015
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If you are not familiar with some aspect of digital preservation (or even if you are) there is a tutorial from Cornell University Library, now supported by ICPSR, which articulates the history and outline of the problem reasonably well, with links to most of the important sources up to the time it was created (2003-2006): "Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Problems," available at: http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/tutorial/dpm/index.html.

You will need to get Matthew Kirschenbaum's Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination from MIT Press, which has just come out in paperback and is available for $15.50 new online. We'll use this book for its excellent explanations and for a few of the experiments that we will replicate.

There is a reasonably good book in institutional repositories (focusing on the case study of the Edinburgh University DSpace repository). Unfortunately it is now somewhat out of date and costs $85.00. If you want to get it and especially if you can find a used copy I urge you to do so, but I will make readings available through BlackBoard and on reserve in the library since all of it will not be assigned for specific readings. It is worth reading as a whole because it covers the whole process of actually establishing an institutional digital repository, and it can be helpful for reference: Richard Jones, Theo Andrew, and John MacColl, The Institutional Repository. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2006

Another book we will use significantly is Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema, Digital Discovery (Addison-Wesley). You can find reasonably-priced copies of this book but can also access it online at http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/forensic-discovery/

There is also a newish text (2010) by Ross Harvey called Digital Curation: A How-to-do-it Manual (Neal-Schuman: 2010), price $72 or thereabouts. Harvey is a smart guy who has worked on digital archiving in Australia and has assisted Simmons with establishing a program, but the price is very steep, there is only one copy in the library, we will be covering the material at a higher level, and he has assembled a helpful list of open-source and online materials here: http://www.neal-schuman.com/nealschuman/companionwebsite/curation/. Harvey produced some years ago a more meaty book called Preserving Digital Materials (Saur, 2005) that is available as an e-book from the library and is especially useful for Australian digital preservation (as it was then called!) case studies.

You will see a number of other books referred to on the syllabus that you may want to purchase, but the assignments will be made available through online links or BlackBoard. This field continues to move so fast and change so often that most of the literature remains online. See the "Resources" page for easy access to additional useful materials that I will add to from time to time.