Browsing by Subject "Digital preservation"

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    A Path to Open and Accountable Digital Preservation Collaboration
    (Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-17) Mumma, Courtney
    In addition to hosting NDSA Innovation Award-winning Digital Preservation Services, TDL is part of an informal affinity group called the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (DPSC). We are a group of digital preservation organizations united in our commitment to preserve the cultural, intellectual, scientific and academic record for current and future generations. We came together because digital preservation is a cultural-heritage-wide challenge that is best accomplished together. We may be best known for having published the Declaration of Shared Values in late 2018, a document which provides standards to which our community can hold us accountable. The values that inform and direct our collective work are collaboration, affordability and sustainability, inclusiveness, technological diversity, portability/interoperability, openness and transparency, accountability, stewardship continuity, advocacy, and empowerment. Digital preservation requirements differ broadly across units and between institutions, and decisions are too often made for the short-term based predominantly on real or imposed resource scarcity. This understanding, alongside recent developments in the digital preservation ecosystem, inspired the DPSC to revise and expand the Values statement. We are witness to the growing ubiquity of commercial Digital Preservation vendors in community and professional spaces, which has precipitated the increased uptake of their technologies and investment from institutions. Digital preservation-focused professional associations, including TDL, witness the United States suffering from a dearth of digital preservation leadership and guidance. This presentation will discuss these values and efforts to curb trends that do not align with them.
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    Personal digital archives : preservation of documents, preservation of self
    (2013-08) Kim, Sarah; Galloway, Patricia Kay
    This dissertation explores personal digital archiving practices, particularly in relation to the construction of self. Personal digital archiving is an everyday practice through which people manage and preserve digital documents that have particular meanings to them. This process involves a constant value assignment that is intertwined with the recollection of life events. In-depth case studies were used to gain a holistic understanding as close to research participants’ perspectives as possible. Semi-structured narrative interviews were conducted with 23 individuals from various backgrounds.The results are discussed in relation to emotions and self-evaluation. Personal digital archiving as a process, directly or indirectly, involves a self-enhancement and self-verification which is an integral part of self-confirmation. This study contributes to the in-depth observation of everyday record-keeping in a digital environment, particularly providing interpretive accounts of individual differences and why people do things in a certain way.
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    A place of preservation : post-custodial preservation of students' electronic records at the University of Texas at Austin
    (2006-08) Norris-Moffet, April F., 1977-; Galloway, Patricia Kay
    Students' records are essential to the operation of a university and are considered to be vitally important records. At UT Austin these records remain in the custody of the Office of the Registrar indefinitely. As the official custodian of students' records, the Office of the Registrar controls all access to the records, makes certain that users of the records comply with state and federal policies, and manages the long-term preservation of the records. These circumstances presented an opportunity to explore a "post-custodial" environment seemingly unwed to the archival profession and uninfluenced by the archival theory of post-custodialism. Using as a framework the process of functional analysis as described by Helen W. Samuels in "Varsity Letters", this thesis chronicles the evolution of the duties charged to the Office of the Registrar and the resulting records of those duties (specifically students' records). The result is an administrative history of the Office of the Registrar which identifies the forces which have shaped and continue to guide the custodial practices of the office. The thesis argues that Office of the Registrar is an adept "custodian of records", having decades of "post-custodial" experience preserving reliable and authentic electronic records.