The Nature of Digital Objects

Lecture slides from the 2nd Digital Humanities Data Curation Workshop, http://www.dhcuration.org/institute/schedule/

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1. Trevor Munoz 2013
   Digital Humanities Data Curation
   THE NATURE OF
   DIGITAL OBJECTS
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   WHAT IS
   THE DATA?
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   PROPOSITIONS
   SYSTEMATICALLY
   ASSERTED
   EVIDENCE
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   ENCODED
   symbol structures
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   Abstract symbol
   structures and
   propositions do
   not undergo
   changes of state...”
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   so the problem is
   one of maintaining
   a connection
   between conceptual
   content and the
   structures that
   express it.”
   “
   — Dubin, Wickett, Sacchi
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   Maintaining meaning and
   usefulness for research
   communities over time
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   REPRESENTATION
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   AGAINST
   SCREEN
   ESSENTIALISM
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    computers ... present a
    premeditated material
    environment built
    and engineered to
    propagate an illusion
    of immateriality.”
    “
    — Matthew Kirschenbaum
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    DIGITAL DATA
    MATERIAL
    IS
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    We experience it through ...
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    LAYERS OF
    REPRESENTATION
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    MAKE BETTER
    CHOICES
    understand digital
    data representation
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    Sperberg-McQueen, M.,
    and Dubin, D. (2011) “Data
    Representation”
    http://guide.dhcuration.org/
    representation/
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    CONVENTION
    any
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    ARRANGEMENT
    for the
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    PHYSICAL
    WORLD
    of things in the
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    INFORMATION
    TO BE ENCODED
    so as to enable
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    DECODED
    and
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    AUTOMATIC
    SYSTEMS
    by suitable
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    DIGITAL DATA
    MATERIAL
    IS
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    TRANSITIONS IN
    MAGNETIZATION
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    Wikimedia Commons
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    BITS
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    Wikimedia Commons
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    BYTES
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    CHARACTER
    ENCODING
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    UTF-8 encodes each of the
    1,112,064 code points in the
    Unicode character set using
    one to four 8-bit bytes”
    “
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    FILE FORMAT
    a particular
    convention is a
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    TIFF
    PDF
    MP3
    EPUB
    WAV
    TTF
    GIF
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    Protecting
    [collections] for the
    future requires not
    only familiarity with
    the contents ...”
    “
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    ... but also with the
    technologies of the
    media that bear
    those contents, ...”
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    and the technologies
    by which the
    contents were
    inscribed on the
    media in question.”
    “
    — Patricia Galloway
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    Galloway, P. (2011)
    “Educating for Digital
    Archiving through Studio
    Pedagogy, Sequential Case
    Studies, and Reflective
    Practice.”
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    THERE’S
    MORE ...
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    BITSTREAM
    REPRESENTATION
    INFORMATION
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    QUESTIONS?
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