The Nature of Digital Objects

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Trevor Munoz 2013 Digital Humanities Data Curation THE NATURE OF DIGITAL OBJECTS Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 WHAT IS THE DATA? Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 PROPOSITIONS SYSTEMATICALLY ASSERTED EVIDENCE Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 ENCODED symbol structures Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 Abstract symbol structures and propositions do not undergo changes of state...” “ Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 so the problem is one of maintaining a connection between conceptual content and the structures that express it.” “ — Dubin, Wickett, Sacchi Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 Maintaining meaning and usefulness for research communities over time Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 REPRESENTATION Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 AGAINST SCREEN ESSENTIALISM Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 computers ... present a premeditated material environment built and engineered to propagate an illusion of immateriality.” “ — Matthew Kirschenbaum Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 DIGITAL DATA MATERIAL IS Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 We experience it through ... Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 LAYERS OF REPRESENTATION Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 MAKE BETTER CHOICES understand digital data representation Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 Sperberg-McQueen, M., and Dubin, D. (2011) “Data Representation” http://guide.dhcuration.org/ representation/ Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 CONVENTION any Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 ARRANGEMENT for the Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 PHYSICAL WORLD of things in the Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 INFORMATION TO BE ENCODED so as to enable Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 DECODED and Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS by suitable Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 DIGITAL DATA MATERIAL IS Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 TRANSITIONS IN MAGNETIZATION Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 Wikimedia Commons Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 BITS Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 Wikimedia Commons Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 BYTES Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 CHARACTER ENCODING Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 UTF-8 encodes each of the 1,112,064 code points in the Unicode character set using one to four 8-bit bytes” “ Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 FILE FORMAT a particular convention is a Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 TIFF PDF MP3 EPUB WAV TTF GIF Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 Protecting [collections] for the future requires not only familiarity with the contents ...” “ Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 ... but also with the technologies of the media that bear those contents, ...” “ Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 and the technologies by which the contents were inscribed on the media in question.” “ — Patricia Galloway Monday, October 21, 13

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Trevor Munoz 2013 Galloway, P. (2011) “Educating for Digital Archiving through Studio Pedagogy, Sequential Case Studies, and Reﬂective Practice.” Monday, October 21, 13

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