Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

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M. Atkinson, M. P., Britton, D., Coveney, P., De Roure, D. E., Garnett, N., Geddes, N., Gurney, R., Ingram, D., Haines, K., Hughes, L., Jeffreys, P., Lyon, L. J., Osborne, I., Perrott, R., Procter, R. N. and Trefethen, A. E. (March 2008). " Century-of-Information Research — a Strategy for Research and Innovation in the Century of Information" (CIR3). Digital curation ensures the sustainability of data in the long term, however it has immediate value for data creators as well as users. Digital curation facilitates: There is an ever-increasing amount of data being created in digital formats, through the digitisation of existing analogue information and the creation of new 'born-digital' data from the sciences, arts, and humanities sectors. As well as generating new digital data, scientists, researchers, and scholars have begun to rely on digital content created by others. These data are at risk from technological obsolescence and from the inherent fragility of digital media. Digital curation is the management and preservation of digital data over the long-term.

That said, the author claims to be fairly general, and claims serious nonlinearity is important to the library approach (and that this is fairly non-existent in social science literature methodologies... which is total nonsense), social and anthropological approaches such as trace ethnography, Actor-Network studies, and to some extent, Social Network Analysis very explicitly does this more radically than this book suggests that makes this approach unique to that of a "librarian" scholar. In addition, anyone who has done supervised machine learning would outright laugh at how linear this approach appears to them. The use of common standards across different datasets, which in turn leads to more opportunities for cross-searching and collaborationThere is no knowledge revolution—just a new level of overload, a lot of churning, and a lot of hype.

Ensuring data is valid as a formal record where appropriate, meaning it can function into the future as legal evidence Reading without questions always reverts to narrative reading, and narrative reading always fails for anything but the first reading of a novel.The use of tools and services to migrate data, metadata, and other representation information into new formats to ensure it remains meaningful to users Overall, "Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials" is fantastic, and its author has a pleasant writing style. Reading this book, I feel that Andrew Abbott wrote this to help and guide you, and this book 100% delivers. But for seasoned researchers, the book is also (as I said above) life-affirming. Easily my favorite chapter is the second, which provides an autobiographical account of the research that went into Abbott’s paper “Library Research Infrastructure for Humanistic and Social Scientific Scholarship in the Twentieth Century”. I had read this paper — which is superb — before reading Digital Paepr. Reading the story of how “Library Research” was produced was absolutely fascinating. In fact, I think if you just assigned the “Library Research Infrastructure” paper and chapter 2 of Digital Paper to students, you’d have a pretty good sense of Abott’s wider project.

The ownership of digital data is particularly complex as creators of both digital objects and analogue originals, databases, metadata, tools for functionality and contextual information can all have rights over the materials, as can the digital curators themselves. Managing rights is a challenging and time-consuming aspect of digital curation. Different disciplines use terminology in different ways which can lead to inconsistencies and/or misunderstandings between collaborators on digital curation.This book is a very good start to organizing research with documents/artifacts found online or in a library. In fact, I think this is a good follow up reading to _Still Life with Rhetoric_ by Gries. While Abbott may feel otherwise, Gries offers a much more close textual case of how to do this kind of research while implying more general applications. What this book does instead is offer a strongly historically library studies focus to research. This book is a little more dogmatic about the language structures and tools of library studies research projects. It is not bad at explaining library well, but in doing so and in assuming a lot (incorrectly) about the differences between library research and general social science, this book rhetorically attempts to alienate a lot of people who could find value in it. You actively have to read this with an eye for arguing against the dogma if you are not a library scholar. urn:lcp:digitalpapermanu0000abbo:epub:5c75eed7-d2f8-4946-b9ee-b44b56669c13 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4081 Identifier digitalpapermanu0000abbo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6652dz7p Invoice 1605 Isbn 9780226167640