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Hold it all together: a case study in quality control for born-digital archiving
No full textPAD (Pavia Archivi Digitali) is a project developed at the University of Pavia aiming at long-term preservation of born-digital private and literary papers produced by Italian writers and journalists. Since 2009, when the first collection was entrusted to PAD, the archive has grown and it currently includes almost 80,000 files. Dealing with this material is inherently complex, as it implies the integration of fields such as literary studies, archival techniques, information technology, and legal and administrative matters. In particular, evolution in technology, use of different types and versions of software, ever changing storage techniques, from floppy disks to cloud services, are all factors posing severe challenges. To ensure a rigorous management of the workflow, which is critical to the success of the entire project, a specific piece of sofware - QUANDO (Quality control for Archiving and Networking Digital Objects) - was developed
If bits are not enough: preservation practices of the original contest for born digital literary archives = Se i bit non bastano: pratiche di conservazione del contesto di origine per gli archivi letterari nativi digitali
No full textNato nel 2009 per affiancare lo storico Fondo Manoscritti dell’Università di Pavia, PAD - Pavia Archivi Digitali si occupa di acquisire, conservare e rendere accessibili gli archivi nativi digitali di scrittori e giornalisti contemporanei. I fondi fino a oggi acquisiti si sono rivelati molto diversi tra loro, e hanno contribuito via via a precisare e perfezionare le procedure di ingest e la gestione del ciclo di vita dei materiali conservati. Una delle questioni più importanti riguarda l’analisi preliminare della struttura degli archivi – sia dal punto di vista logico, che informatico – e il colloquio con lo scrittore, a cui viene somministrato un questionario, che si sta rivelando
molto utile per comprendere il metodo di lavoro e l’organizzazione dei materiali. Non sono molte le indicazioni che la letteratura offre al riguardo, essendosi quest’ultima prevalentemente occupata di archivi tradizionali o di archivi digitali caratterizzati da una maggiore stabilità di quelli letterari. L’intervento mira a mettere a disposizione della
comunità le riflessioni maturate nel corso delle acquisizioni
Hold it all together: a case study in quality control for born-digital archiving
Get PDFPolicies, standards, procedures and software implemented at PAD-Pavia Archivi Digitali (Università di Pavia, Italy) to ensure correct ingest and sustainable long term preservation of digital-native literary papers of Italian writers
Archivi digitali di persona: PAD - Pavia Archivi Digitali e gli archivi degli scrittori
Get PDFIn 2009 the University of Pavia launched PAD – Pavia Archivi Digitali with the idea of creating an archive aimed at collecting digital born memories of writers, journalists and intellectuals. The archive was planned to include files and documents of a different nature, to ensure their long-term preservation and to make them accessible to scholars, in accordance with the author’s provisions. Following the setting up of a first prototype, the project evolved into a sustainable system, capable of handling large amounts of data and keeping them safe. Having established that the products on the market were not able to support the complexity of the project, the decision was made to develop the system locally, ensuring that it would be scalable, flexible, compliant to standards and interoperable with other platforms. Literary digital archives are mainly made of text documents (working papers, drafts at various stages of completeness, unpublished papers, pdf of gone to press volumes), and to a lesser extent of audio and video-recordings, photographs and images. PAD is currently extending the type of files to be treated, described and stored, searching solutions designed to support, host and make available to scholars digital material produced on the web (social networks, websites, blogs) and via mail. So far we have focused on files copied from physical media used by authors (their main computer hard disk, external hard drives, CDs, smartphones and mobiles) as well as from cloud storage systems (Dropbox, Google Drive and so on). Due to the large size of these archives, often including thousands of files, the development team is studying new techniques for data extraction and AI procedures of file recognition. Franco Buffoni's papers are used as a testbed for these developments
Archivi digitali di persona. PAD - Pavia Archivi Digitali e gli archivi degli scrittori
No full textLa diffusione di pratiche di scrittura elettroniche e la conseguente istituzione i archivi letterari nativamente digitali ha determinato nel 2009 l'avvio del progetto PAD – Pavia Archivi Digitali, finalizzato a realizzare uno strumento per archiviare e rendere consultabili documenti in formato elettronico di personalità rappresentative della cultura e della società odierna, riconducibili a diverse generazioni e formazioni. Di questo materiale PAD intende garantire la conservazione nel tempo e favorire lo studio, nel rispetto della privacy e del diritto d'autore. Preservare a lungo termine le memorie collettive e personali degli ultimi decenni è un’impresa resa particolarmente complessa dalla necessità di integrare competenze appartenenti ad ambiti molto diversi fra loro: discipline letterarie, tecniche e archivistiche, tecnologia dell’informazione, questioni giuridiche, aspetti amministrativi. Inoltre, la gestione dell’archivio digitale presuppone l’aggiornamento costante dei modelli di dati, degli standard e delle procedure per far fronte alla crescente varietà delle fonti documentarie. Fattori di particolare criticità sono, inoltre, la stratificazione delle versioni, la tutela dei dati sensibili, la gestione dei diritti, le licenze d’uso degli applicativi software (particolarmente nel caso di trasferimenti di pacchetti software dal soggetto utilizzatore a quello che si occupa della conservazione), l’organizzazione e le responsabilità della curatela digitale e, infine, il rapporto con l’utenza. Il successo di un progetto finalizzato alla conservazione a lungo termine di archivi privati digitali nativi dipende dalla capacità di individuare fin dall’inizio le soluzioni più adeguate (riguardo a linee guida, standard, buone pratiche e così via), con l’intesa che abbiano anche la caratteristica della sostenibilità. Prendendo come caso di studio le procedure di archiviazione del fondo del poeta e anglista Franco Buffoni, il cui completamento ha avuto luogo all'inizio dell'anno, l'articolo descrive le soluzioni informatiche ed archivistiche adottate nell'ambito di PAD, individuando al contempo le procedure da mettere a punto nelle ulteriori fasi di sviluppo del sistema
Archivi digitali di persona: PAD - Pavia Archivi Digitali e gli archivi degli scrittori
No full textIn 2009 the University of Pavia launched PAD – Pavia Archivi Digitali with the idea of creating an archive aimed at collecting digital born memories of writers, journalists and intellectuals. The archive was planned to include files and documents of a different nature, to ensure their long-term preservation and to make them accessible to scholars, in accordance with the author’s provisions. Following the setting up of a first prototype, the project evolved into a sustainable system, capable of handling large amounts of data and keeping them safe. Having established that the products on the market were not able to support the complexity of the project, the decision was made to develop the system locally, ensuring that it would be scalable, flexible, compliant to standards and interoperable with other platforms. Literary digital archives are mainly made of text documents (working papers, drafts at various stages of completeness, unpublished papers, pdf of gone to press volumes), and to a lesser extent of audio and video-recordings, photographs and images. PAD is currently extending the type of files to be treated, described and stored, searching solutions designed to support, host and make available to scholars digital material produced on the web (social networks, websites, blogs) and via mail. So far we have focused on files copied from physical media used by authors (their main computer hard disk, external hard drives, CDs, smartphones and mobiles) as well as from cloud storage systems (Dropbox, Google Drive and so on). Due to the large size of these archives, often including thousands of files, the development team is studying new techniques for data extraction and AI procedures of file recognition. Franco Buffoni's papers are used as a testbed for these developments
Se i bit non bastano: pratiche di conservazione del contesto di origine per gli archivi letterari nativi digitali
Get PDFPAD – Pavia Archivi Digitali was created in 2009, alongside the Centre for Research in the Manuscript Tradition of Modern and Contemporary Authors, with the aim of acquiring, preserving and giving access to born- digital papers of contemporary writers and journalists. The archives which were bestowed to PAD so far show a variety of features involving a considerable effort in defining and fine-tuning both the ingest procedures and the management of the preserved papers life-cycle. One of the crucial issues is the preliminary analysis of the logical and technical structure of these archives. For this purpose the writer is interviewed and more information is collected through a specific questionnaire. By combining the two one gains a valuable insight into his or her working methods and files arrangement logic. The literature on the subject is still quite scarce, since researchers have been more keen to focus either on traditional archives or on digital archives though characterized by a greater stability. To share reflections emerged in response to the various acquisitions is therefore the aim of this paper
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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