Preservação digital à longo prazo e comunicação científica
| Autor | Elena Maceviciute |
| Cargo | University of Borås, Sweden; Vilnius University, Lithuania |
| Páginas | 1-18 |
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Encontros Bibli: revista eletr ônica de b iblioteconomia e ciência da informação, v. 17, n.
esp. 2 – III SBCC, p.1-18, 2012. ISSN 1518-2924. DOI:10.5007/1518-
2924.2012v17nesp2p1
LONG-TERM DIGITAL PRESERVATION AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
Elena Maceviciute
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PRESERVAÇÃO DIGITAL À LONGO PRAZO E COMUNICAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA
1 INTRODUCTION
In 2008 the Swedish School of Library and Information Science of the University of
Borås joined the European Union research project SHAMAN – Sustaining Heritage Access
through Multivalent Archiving. In one of the previous articles we have explained the aims of
this project as follows:
The ai m of the SHAMAN Integrated Project is to investigate the long -term
preservation of large volumes of digital data in a distributed environment by
developing a pr eservation framework that is verifiable, open and extensible. The
approach will investigate all aspects of d igital preservation from ingestion to
dissemination in an environment where the collections, producers, consumers and
curators are geographically distributed a nd the content of the collections is of a
dynamic nature. Furthermore, it is developing corresponding preservation tools for
analysing, ingesting, managing, accessing and reusing information objects and data
across libraries and archives. Three prototypical applications are intended to support
trials and validation of the result i n memory institutions, industrial design and
engineering and, finally, experimentally, also in scientific application domains. The
SHAMAN data grid infrastructure was developed in close cooperation with US
project partners. (Maceviciute and Wilson 2011: 2).
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This project opened a number of interesting avenues of thinking either about
preservation of digital objects and the differences of organizations and communities that see it
from various points of view and construct its necessity in very different ways. This paper aims
to present the understanding and perspectives of digital preservation from the points of view
of scientists and scholars as well as professional keepers and curators of our documented
heritage as revealed through investigation of SHAMAN requirements, evaluation of
SHAMAN results or of those presented in their texts.
2 LONGEVITY OF MEDIA
Let me start with an overview of some science fiction literature pertaining to
preservation of information.
There are many fiction books presenting the image of future libraries (see an essay by
James Gunn, Libraries in science fiction) and books. But to my greatest surprise not many
mention any means of knowledge preservation. Some provide a glimpse of it through the
means of education and knowledge transfer, but preservation is taken for granted.
The first known knowledge preservation medium in literature is the Biblical fruit in
the Garden of Eden – a perfect container of compressed information accessed by unauthorized
users.
In one early fantastic novels of an apocalyptic future, David H. Keller’s "The Cerebral
Library", from 1931, human readers read a book a day; after five years they are killed and
their brains are put in a jar to provide instant access to everything they have read. The
librarians of that era had to cope with more serious problems than theft, vandalism,
inadequate budgets, and low pay.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), on the other hand, was placed in a future
society in which books were burned and a few rebels memorized favourite texts so that they
would not be lost. Walter M. Miller in his “Canticle for Leibowitz” depicts monks rescuing
books from deliberate destruction and safekeeping them for the future, 600 years after a
nuclear catastrophe.
The English philosopher Olaf Stapledon in his novel “Star Maker” describes the
formation of collective minds from many telepathically linked individuals, on the level of
planets, galaxies, and eventually the cosmos, who share and develop further all they know.
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