Taking a Look at Technological Archiving

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In the end, Lubar concedes that this idea “probably goes too far” (146). In reality, it would not be as easy as it sounds and it would not be an easy solution to museum storage issues. However, in the book’s closing Lubar draws on the example of Robert Fontenot’s show Recycle LACMA (2009), which repurposed items that the museum had deaccessioned and gave them new life (325). This example proves that it is possible for museums to clear out their storage and at the same time be apart of creating something

by any means electronic or mechanical or by any information storage and retrieval system now

The purpose of information retrieval is to provide quality service for the right person at the right time, with all the required information in hand. Only if data is stored in a procedural manner it can be easily retrieved. Information might be retrieved for marketing purposes, for

The author talks about how text that goes with objects in museums directs the reader towards the “preferred reading” or preferred meanings of the object.

The Digital Curation Task Force (DCTF) is charged with developing a digital curation plan for a small university archives organizationally located within the library structure. The focus of the plan is on the feasibility of building a digital repository program for the archives to provide better access to their holdings.

EDM allows for the management of diverse types of document storage in an organization using collaboration software and storage ("IBM FileNet", n.d.). Each line of business has diverse business processes and procedures for storing and retrieving their internal documents. Each document that is loaded in the EDM system, IBM FileNet, is stored with particular metadata and retention record information. Choice lists are maintained to aid the user with data integrity and consistency. Furthermore, the document owners can request their file to be content-based retrieval enabled. This allows for keyword searches within the application to find documents based on keywords, not just metadata captured during the original load or check-in of the

Archives can be made up of letters, records, paintings, photos, artifacts, and others for preservation to understand what occurred during a period in history or the perspective of a person’s life. Many of these archives can be found in museums and libraries around the world for researchers or historians to obtain information about events that occurred in the past. Although, there are still hidden documents that have yet to be discovered. When researchers or historian begin their journey of going through these documents, they will soon realize the difficulties of finding a never-ending answer to their objective. Arlette Farge created the novel, “Allure of the Archives,” to provide a perspective of a female researcher searching through archives

What could be more essential to the historian than archives? Arlette Farge explains, “This is where our work begins.” However, to many, the vast repositories of records and documents seem dull and lifeless. To the eager historian, the archives are a vast and treacherous ocean and seemingly impossible to wade through. In spite of this, they are seductive to Farge, enticing her to sift through the endless Paris police records of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris. The “allure” is the innate potential of the archives to illuminate areas of the past, which would otherwise be forgotten. While historical knowledge is highly elusive and eternally incomplete, shades of the true past inhabit the archive’s documents and records. She analogizes the archive to a thick forest. When you first arrive, it will be difficult to see,

First, large amounts of data are non-searchable because their contents cannot be readily searched with keywords or other-automated methods. To render the material searchable or to manually search it requires enormous resources. Next, backup tapes and other duplicative data can incur significant costs given archived information cannot be immediately searched as they require transcription to a computer first. In fact, the problems with searching this data are so immense courts have treated backup tapes as inaccessible. Another common form of electronic data, databases, also poses significant issues given the cost and feasibility of actually searching through the data. The metadata associated with stored data also poses a number of problems. These problems include: whether the metadata is actually part of the discovery request, insuring the metadata is not modified during production, and actually reviewing the data given the difficulty of accessing and aggregating it. Finally, given many companies have automated deletion policies and producers bear “the burden of proving all readily accessible sources of the requested ESI have been adequately searched”, the restoration of deleted data can often aggravate discovery costs. Thus in many cases, the very nature of electronic data defies efforts to cabin its production

A museum is the house of the Ancient Muses. But for us, since the 19th century, a museum is much more than a house of bunch of semi divine chicks with weird hobbies: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Euterpe (flutes and lyric poetry), Thalia (comedy and pastoral poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Terpsichore (dance), Erato (love poetry), Polyhymnia (sacred poetry), Urania (astronomy). We consider museums as places of solace and quietness, places were beauty and history collide to give a special experience.

When retrieving archived information, it is important you are aware of the document you require and have a reason to be accessing the information. Documents may contain sensitive information that may be confidential, if you have a sufficient reason to access the information then you may be given access. This may involve a process where you fill out a form stating you reason for wanting the document, the time and date, the name of the document and your department title. Otherwise this may be simply done by asking your manager for authorisation. Some digital documents may be password protected and only those who are given the password may be able to retrieve the archived information. Some documents may also require someone to record the date and times of the document being accessed, if anything has been altered and who accessed it. If a file is being accessed on a digital system, this information may be automatically recorded when you click on the document.

Art galleries and museums are nowadays indispensable institutions mainly in important cities around the world. The Metropolis provides the perfect social and political environment to develop the civic ritual founded by Art Museums and its now rooted tradition. (Duncan, 1995, p.21) However, predominant thought that questions seeing objects in a museum is proposed by the “museum sceptics”. According to Carrier, museum sceptics state that art in museums does not survive, meaning it loses its power. Museums de facto fail to preserve the art constituted in old objects that are collected. This belief also rejects ‘time travel’ in museums since they argue that it is only an illusion. (Carrier, 2006, pp. 50-51) This is a rather philosophical approach, but it strongly rejects the claim that old

content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms

This paper discusses principles of storage and retrieval of delay sensitive multimedia data. The retrieval requirements can be discussed in terms of digital audio playback. For this, a theoretical framework can be developed for discussing real time requirements of retrieval and storage placements strategies. Data independence permits the representation of information to be changed without creating the need to change application projects utilizing the information. Physical data independence in hyper media databases hides the storage details of media artifacts, for example: resolution, segmentation, formatting, redundancy in storage etc from the data used by the applications. This helps in achieving the following goals: