A Communicological critique of evaluative norms for digital preservation success
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This thesis examines the adequacy of existing measures of success for the long-term preservation of the of electronic content that plays such a central role in all aspects of contemporary life. It finds the concept of success poorly defined in theory and inadequately supported in practice by libraries, archives, museums, datacenters, and repositories. In response, this work outlines a new approach for evaluating success that complements the objective measure of preservation management with the subjective assessment of individual human experience when using preserved resources as vehicles for technically-mediated communication across time.
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| ID Code: | 238194 |
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| Item Type: | QUT Thesis (PhD) |
| Supervisor: | Bruza, Peter & Edwards, Sylvia |
| Keywords: | Digital preservation, Success, Communicology, Semiotics, Affordance, Qualitative content analysis, Expectation-confirmation theory |
| DOI: | 10.5204/thesis.eprints.238194 |
| Pure ID: | 125779330 |
| Divisions: | Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Science Current > Schools > School of Information Systems |
| Institution: | Queensland University of Technology |
| Deposited On: | 23 Feb 2023 05:40 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Feb 2023 05:40 |
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