scholarly journals WAKING TO NORMAL: Examining Archival Appraisal in Data-driven Society

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta M Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Data Driven ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Archival Theory ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Digital Models ◽  
Archival Appraisal ◽  
Appraisal Process

The COVID-19 environment, where the internet is the literal lifeline and livelihood of humanity, has exposed the chasm between those equipped for technological existence and those shocked by abrupt isolation. For archives, many institutions are on an unforgiving precipice of irrelevancy. The focus of this paper is not to iterate the necessity of archival theory but to examine the position of appraisal within a technologically-driven, internet society. Of significance to this evaluation is that organization, retrieval, and use of information have evolved, and users are central players in curation cycles. Also, of importance are those archives shifting to, and innovating, decentralized digital models - and thriving. A historical overview of both fields shows that appraisal falters in technical maturation and in response to changes in how society generates, captures, and retrieves information. There exist alternate paradigms for archival roles and appraisal, however, including recognizing that users derive the interpretation of information and that transdisciplinary archivists are vital. There are also developments in digital archives where access is the bedrock of the arrangement and description and the entire appraisal process.

scholarly journals Archives and identity in the context of social media and algorithmic analytics: Towards an understanding of iArchive and predictive retention

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 3304-3322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Pötzsch
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The Political ◽  
Archival Theory ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
And Control

This article reconceptualizes the archive in the context of digital media ecologies. Drawing upon archival theory and critical approaches to the political economy of the Internet, I account for new dynamics and implications afforded by digital archives. Operating at both a user-controlled explicit and a state- and corporate-owned implicit level, the digital archive at once facilitates empowerment and enables unprecedented forms of management and control. Connecting the politics and economy of digital media with issues of identity formation and curation on social networking sites, I coin the terms iArchive and predictive retention to highlight how recent technological advances both provide new means for self-expression, mobilization and resistance and afford an almost ubiquitous tracking, profiling and, indeed, moulding of emergent subjectivities.

Applications of Cloud-Based Internet of Things

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-84
Author(s):  
Nipun R. Navadia ◽  
Gurleen Kaur ◽  
Harshit Bhardwaj ◽  
Taranjeet Singh ◽  
Aditi Sakalle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cloud Infrastructure ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Cloud Network ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Cloud storage is a great way for companies to fulfill more of their data-driven needs and excellent technology that allows the company to evolve and grow at a faster pace, accelerating growth and providing a flexible forum for developers to build useful apps for better devices to be developed over the internet. The integration of cloud computing and the internet of things creates a scalable, maintainable, end-to-end internet of things solution on the cloud network. By applying the infrastructure to the real universe, it generates sources of insight. Cloud computing and IoT are separate technology but are closely associated and are termed as ‘cloud-based IoT' as IoT has the ability to create intelligent goods and services, gather data that can affect business decisions and probably change the business model to boost success and expansion, and cloud infrastructure can be at the heart of all IoT has to deliver.

Social Media, the Internet, and Trial by Jury

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaddeus Hoffmeister ◽  
Ann Charles Watts
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Media And Communication

This review starts with a historical overview of trial by jury and then moves to a discussion of media and communication. This is followed by an examination of the advantages and disadvantages associated with jurors and digital technology. The heart of the article is a review of six scholarly studies that attempt to explain why jurors use the Internet, as well as methods for combating such use. The article concludes with recommendations for future areas of research.

Finding ‘anonymous’ in the digital archives: The problem of Arden of Faversham

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Dramatic Works ◽  
Commercial Theater ◽  
Arden Of Faversham

AbstractThis investigation re-examines debates about the authorship of the play Arden of Faversham, first published (anonymously) in 1592, and sometimes attributed to Shakespeare, Kyd, or Marlowe. More generally, it seeks to explain why modern data-driven attribution methods, which have created consensus about the authorship of The Revenger's Tragedy and other seventeenth-century plays, have failed to produce consistent results for plays written for the London commercial theaters in the years up to 1594. It proposes that attribution problems in that period can be better understood if plays are tested against authorial canons that include non-dramatic as well as dramatic works, using algorithms based on the evidence of n-grams and collocations, which seem not to be genre-dependent. It tests a sample passage from Scene 10 of Arden against the digital canons of fifteen writers known or suspected to have been writing for the commercial theater in the period 1585–92, using primarily EEBO-TCP. All tests identify the author as the poet, translator, and playwright Thomas Watson (1555–92). These data do not establish Watson's authorship of the entire play but open several new lines of enquiry for Arden and other anonymous and collaborative early plays.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Data Driven Production Process Analysis for the Internet of Production

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 1065-1076 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Meyes ◽  
H. Tercan ◽  
T. Thiele ◽  
A. Krämer ◽  
J. Heinisch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
The Internet

Digitization, Internet publishing and the revival of scholarly monographs: An empirical study in India

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rojers P. Joseph ◽  
Shishir K. Jha
Keyword(s):  
Production Costs ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Digital Models ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Demand ◽  
Internet Publishing

This research shows the growing utility of internet-based digital models in reviving the crisis-stricken traditional print monograph publishing. The rising prices of scientific journals in the past three decades forced academic and research libraries to resort to cutbacks on monograph budgets. The declining sales to libraries and rising production costs led to a significant drop in global demand for print monographs, rendering monograph publishing financially unattractive. Combining the flexibility of digitized content with the global reach of the Internet, three emerging digital models — print on demand, bundled e-books, and e-consortia — are beginning to revamp the monograph publishing business.

(Re)Searching in the (You)Tube: Digital Archives and Dance Practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 292-298
Author(s):  
Christos Papakostas
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Mass Expansion ◽  
Dance Groups ◽  
New Phenomena

It is a commonly held assumption that new technologies have changed human society, culture, and communication dramatically. New phenomena appear, and the new reality is a challenge on many levels. The mass expansion of the Internet, since the early 1990s, has brought new circumstances at the economic, social, and cultural levels, as well as new forms of behavior and expression. In recent years, the basic practice of instructors, dancers, and dance enthusiasts is searching and downloading videos on traditional Greek dancing. In many cases, the videos are considered “research” products capable of supporting the teaching of dance in traditional dance groups. What inevitably emerges is a mode of YouTube as a new digital dance archive. In this peculiar condition, the production, distribution, and “assessment” of the content are in the hands of the user community, who, as Derrida notes, are possessed by one “irrepressible desire to return to the origin”. In Foucault's terms, the archive is a space of enunciation. Repositioned as something that defies exhaustive description, for Foucault, the archive becomes engaged in the production and authorization of discourse itself. This perspective raises questions about the issues of standards, evaluation, and quality of the “material”. But, the most important question is, what is the concept and the content of the terms “research” and “teaching?”

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