Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities : Preserving and Promoting Archival and Special Collections.

Front Cover -- Series Editor -- Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities: Preserving and Promoting Archival and Special Collections -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- About the author -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing the framework for digital curation -- 1 - Defining digital curation in the digital humanities context -- Foundational definitions for curation -- Digital curation -- Digital preservation -- Lifecycle of digital contents -- Levels of curation -- Digital humanities data curation -- Using linked open data in digital curation -- Conclusion -- 2 - Archives and special collections in the digital humanities -- Defining the digital humanities -- Characteristics of Digital Humanities -- Discursive concerns in the digital humanities -- The role of archives in the digital humanities -- Archives and the linguistic turn -- Digital humanities projects involving archives and libraries -- Digital humanities project descriptions -- Digital humanities curation in the classroom -- Conclusion -- 3 - Digital history, archives, and curating digital cultural heritage -- Defining digital history -- Paradigm shifts in archival curation -- Digital historiography and archives -- Digital historical representations -- Historical hypertext -- Digital history data curation -- Digital historiography and digital curation -- Conclusion -- 4 - Information architecture and hypertextuality: concerns for digital curation -- Defining information architecture -- Digital curation of hypertextual content -- Information architecture and hypertextuality -- Spatial, temporal, and ontological dimensions in information architecture -- Localized approaches at the Ward M. Canaday Center for special collections -- Information architecture for online and hybrid courses in digital humanities -- Conclusion.

5 - Digital curation lifecycle in practice -- Overview of the DCC curation lifecycle model -- Conceptualization and the master plan -- Curation of data sets and digital objects -- Full lifecycle actions -- Preservation planning -- Preservation and conservation in the curation lifecycle -- Description and representation information -- Community watch and participation -- Sequential actions -- Occasional actions -- Conclusion -- 6 - Organizational dimensions of digital curation -- Knowledge management in digital curation -- Knowledge architectures for digital curation -- Knowledge transfer in digital curation -- Organizational contexts for knowledge architectures -- Conclusion -- 7 - Social networks' impact on digital curation -- Cross-curation, social curation ecosystems, and cultural heritage -- Hypertextuality and ontologies in social media -- Social network theory, hypertextuality, and cross-curation -- Social networking and Web 2.0 tools in archives -- The social curation ecosystem in Toledo's Attic -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- References -- Index.

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