Title (en)
Blogs as Objects of Preservation: Advancing the Discussion on Significant Properties
Subtitle (en)
Paper - iPRES 2012 - Digital Curation Institute, iSchool, Toronto
Language
English
Description (en)
The quest for identifying ‘significant properties’ is a common challenge for the digital preservation community. While the methodological frameworks for selecting these properties provide a good foundation, a continued discussion is necessary for further clarifying and improving the available methods. This paper advances earlier work by building on the existing InSPECT framework and improving its capabilities of working with complex/compound objects like blogs. The modifications enable a more thorough analysis of object structures, accentuate the differences and similarities between the framework’s two streams of analysis (i.e. Object and Stakeholder analysis) and, subsequently, improve the final reformulation of the properties. To demonstrate the applicability of the modified framework, the paper presents a use case of a blog preservation initiative that is informed by stakeholder interviews and evaluation of structural and technological foundations of blogs. It concludes by discussing the limitations of the approach and suggesting directions for future research.
Keywords (en)
iPRES, iSchool, Toronto, Canada, Blogs, Weblogs, Digital Preservation, Significant Properties
Author of the digital object
Karen Stepanyan
Seamus Ross
Matthias Trier
Mike Joy
Alexandra I. Cristea
George Gkotsis
Hendrik Kalb
Yunhyong Kim
Format
application/pdf
Size
979.3 kB
Licence Selected
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
Conferences
Conference 2012
Name of Publication (en)
"iPres 2012 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects." Editors: Reagan Moore, Kevin Ashley, Seamus Ross
From Page
219
To Page
225
Name of Collection/Monograph (en)
"iPres 2012 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects." Editors: Reagan Moore, Kevin Ashley, Seamus Ross
Publishing Address
140 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S3G6
Publisher
Digital Curation Institute, iSchool University of Toronto
Publication Date
2012-11-01