When a GIF Becomes a Weapon: The Latent Violence of Technological Standards and Media Infrastructure

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

“…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.…”