Approaches to digital preservation : re-examining the recovery of the Chora of Metaponto, The Necropoleis

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2019-05

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Forrest, Kathleen

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In 1998, the Institute of Classical Archeology published the Chora of Metaponto: The Necropoleis, a two volume book that represented over twenty years of archeological research and scholarship. This paper describes how graduate students in Dr. Galloway’s Digital Archiving class, working together with the ICA, utilized emulation as a tool for recovering data in obsolete legacy formats for long term preservation and increased digital access. This paper analyzes their process, surfacing two different and sometimes competing approaches to digital archiving–preserving working files in their original context as evidentiary information, versus preserving the intellectual content of the material in new formats. Awareness of the motivations behind these two approaches and their different methods will help archivists more clearly identify their goals and allocate resources in other projects of this nature.

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