Improving the Preservability of your Complex Digital Publications
Join us on Thursday, May 30th, Session 3F at 4:00pm
New forms of scholarship are characterized by a variety of digital enhancements such as audio, video, complex data visualizations,and nonlinear navigation. The combination of elements, how they are described, where they reside, how they are licensed, and the role they playin supporting the scholarly argument, pose challenges with regard to preservability.
We invite you to join us in Boston where we will present scenarios from our research illustrating difficult to preserve features, identifying recommendations found in the Guidelines for Preserving New Forms of Scholarship, highlighting successes that improved the long-term preservability of those features, and demonstrating design choices that can be made to address these. Participants will work in small groups on one of the challenges; contributing their experiences to facilitate dialogues around obstacles they faced, additional actions to support enhanced preservability, and who has a role to play in the process.
