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The Nature of Digital Objects

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October 17, 2013

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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October 17, 2013
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  1. Trevor Munoz 2013
    Digital Humanities Data Curation
    THE NATURE OF
    DIGITAL OBJECTS
    Monday, October 21, 13

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

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

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

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  5. Trevor Munoz 2013
    Abstract symbol
    structures and
    propositions do
    not undergo
    changes of state...”

    Monday, October 21, 13

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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
    Monday, October 21, 13

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

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  8. Trevor Munoz 2013
    REPRESENTATION
    Monday, October 21, 13

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

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

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

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

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

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  15. 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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  16. Trevor Munoz 2013
    CONVENTION
    any
    Monday, October 21, 13

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

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

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

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    DECODED
    and
    Monday, October 21, 13

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

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

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

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  24. Trevor Munoz 2013
    Wikimedia Commons
    Monday, October 21, 13

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  25. Trevor Munoz 2013
    BITS
    Monday, October 21, 13

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  26. Trevor Munoz 2013
    Wikimedia Commons
    Monday, October 21, 13

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  27. Trevor Munoz 2013
    BYTES
    Monday, October 21, 13

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  28. Trevor Munoz 2013
    Monday, October 21, 13

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  29. Trevor Munoz 2013
    CHARACTER
    ENCODING
    Monday, October 21, 13

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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”

    Monday, October 21, 13

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  31. Trevor Munoz 2013
    Monday, October 21, 13

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

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

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  34. Trevor Munoz 2013
    Protecting
    [collections] for the
    future requires not
    only familiarity with
    the contents ...”

    Monday, October 21, 13

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  35. Trevor Munoz 2013
    ... but also with the
    technologies of the
    media that bear
    those contents, ...”

    Monday, October 21, 13

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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. Trevor Munoz 2013
    THERE’S
    MORE ...
    Monday, October 21, 13

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  39. Trevor Munoz 2013
    BITSTREAM
    REPRESENTATION
    INFORMATION
    Monday, October 21, 13

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  40. Trevor Munoz 2013
    QUESTIONS?
    Monday, October 21, 13

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