Media Epigraphy: Format, Trace, and Failure

Jancovic, Marek

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-33215-9_2

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“…Despite both the scientific and humanities disciplines understanding the value of data stored on obsolete formats, most institutions sorely underutilize these collections, again centering preservation and migration efforts towards more high‐profile materials and collections such as rare books and manuscripts (Ordelman et al, 2019). Scholars argue that part of the reason valuable data takes precedent over the uniqueness and complexity of formats often has more to do with the expertise to use data production tools, broader access to technologies in producing information, and infrastructure to hold and treat equal all formats (Jancovic et al, 2019). As such, the obligations for format preservation and the curation of data associated with these formats became a dispersed endeavor.…”

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“Garbage Bags Full of Files”: Exploring Sociotechnical Perceptions of Formats within the Recovery and Reuse of Scientific Data

Wagner,

Fenlon,

Sorensen

2023

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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This paper explores the social and technical perceptions of physical and digital formats as they relate to work in the recovery and reuse of scientific data, specifically historical, archival, and defunct data sources. Proprietary and obsolete formats, or formats that need significant transformation work, stand out as central challenges for scientists and data curators who are recovering reusable data from archival or legacy data sources. The challenges confronting data sharing and reuse of contemporary scientific data are already known to be myriad; formats often pose a major, compounding challenge to retrospective data curation research and practice. Based on 23 qualitative interviews with practitioners conducting data recovery and reuse, ranging from marine biologists to data librarians, we study how they understand, engage with, and utilize formats within their data curation work. This paper enumerates the formats deployed throughout the scientific data curation process and explores how practitioners creating and curating scientific data based on historical and archival materials encounter, make sense of, and utilize formats. The paper focuses on practitioner perceptions of formats around the following themes: how practitioners' historical relationships to certain challenging formats inform their ongoing curation practices; the importance of contexts in prioritizing or ignoring formats within scientific curation work; and how formats reveal larger sociotechnical issues. The paper concludes by with practical and theoretical implications of navigating formats within the recovery and reuse of scientific data and offers suggestions for reconfiguring formats within broader data curation lifecycles.

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“Garbage Bags Full of Files”: Exploring Sociotechnical Perceptions of Formats within the Recovery and Reuse of Scientific Data

Wagner,

Fenlon,

Sorensen

2023

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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“…5. The term "format" is intentionally borrowed from communication and media studies where it is well established (Jancovic et al 2020) but also finds mention in Dirk Baecker's critique of the German Stadttheater (2011).…”

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Postfictional Theatre, Institutional Aesthetics, and the German Theatrical Public Sphere

Balme¹

2023

TDR: Drama Rev

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Media Epigraphy: Format, Trace, and Failure

Cited by 2 publications

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“Garbage Bags Full of Files”: Exploring Sociotechnical Perceptions of Formats within the Recovery and Reuse of Scientific Data

“Garbage Bags Full of Files”: Exploring Sociotechnical Perceptions of Formats within the Recovery and Reuse of Scientific Data

Postfictional Theatre, Institutional Aesthetics, and the German Theatrical Public Sphere

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