google captures experience of museu nacional
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Digital Photos as tool for�Cultural Heritage Preservation
Howard Besserhttp://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Talkshttp://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/
I take photos about sad things
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Google Captures Experience of Museu Nacional�
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/discover-the-national-museum-of-brazil-museu-nacional-ufrj/5gJywQA_-ABfJw
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But you all need to learn to take photos for work!
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As part of your work at IPHAN, you might need to photograph a building
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Maybe we should use an older building as an example
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And if Landscape is part of the building, you’d also need to
document that
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And you’d want to document the building interiors and how they’re used
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And maybe document some temporary alternative uses of the building’s interior
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And if you’re working in the Conservation Lab, you’d want to document treatment of document
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These photos are not for yourself; they’re for IPHAN
• Someone else needs to be able to find them (so you need to label and organize them)
• Someone else needs to be able to view them (so they need to be in a format that they can read)
• And that person may need to look at them 100 years in the future
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Students:�How do you organize your photos?
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These photos are not for yourself; they’re for IPHAN
• Someone else needs to be able to find them (so you need to label and organize them)
• Someone else needs to be able to view them (so they need to be in a format that they can read in the future)
• And that person may need to look at them 100 years in the future
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Students:�What format are your photos in?
• What is the file format?• What is the compression scheme?• What medium are they stored on? Will they
always be stored on that medium?
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Some still image file choices
File Formats• Raw• JFIF• JPEG 2000• GIF• PNG• Exif• TIFF• BMP• Quicktime• PPM, PGM, PBM, PNM
Compression Schemes• LZW• JPG• MPEG• DPCM• …
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Students:�What format are your photos in?
• What is the file format?• What is the compression scheme?• What medium are they stored on? Will they
always be stored on that medium?
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These photos are not for yourself; they’re for IPHAN
• Someone else needs to be able to find them (so you need to label and organize them)
• Someone else needs to be able to view them (so they need to be in a format that they can read)
• And that person may need to look at them 100 years in the future
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How long we keep things• Companies keep information for days, or even years• Individuals keep things for years, or a lifetime• Archives, Libraries, and museums keep things for
hundreds of years
Cultural Institutions have a much greater responsibility for preservation!
Biblioteca Nacional partners with Google to scan their collection (1/2)�
https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/livros/possivel-parceria-entre-biblioteca-nacional-o-google-gera-debate-sobre-preservacao-de-acervos-25100824
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Biblioteca Nacional partners with Google to scan their collection (2/2)�https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/livros/biblioteca-nacional-precisa-ser-cautelosa-
com-google-alerta-robert-darnton-1-25100819
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Keeping documentation for IPHAN’s Future
• requires Digital Preservation
• Why is Digital Preservation a problem?
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AnalogWorks• Analog Photos, manuscripts, books, paintings, sculpture• Objective is to make object itself endure (temperature/
humidity control, chemicals/pigments/fibers/adhesives, …)• Goal is to keep object as close as possible to original state
(though occasionally controversy arises over whether to let aging show)
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Electronic Works• Video, audio, digital, new media• Difficult to make the original object endure (magnetic particle
deterioration, warping, etc.)• Even if we could make the original object endure, we wouldn’t have
the infrastructure to view it in the future• Need to develop a paradigm shift from preserving the original object to
preserving info content• Need to pay more attention to maintaining authenticity and replicating
user experience
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With Analog Photos, we focus on the Original
• We repair and try to make the original negative or original print continue to survive
• Students: Where is the original of your digital photo?
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Longevidade Digital
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Paradigms Shifts neededOld New
Physical preservation
atmospheric cntrl ongoing mgmt
What to save? artifact idea + ancillary material & documentation
Cataloging Individual work in hand
FRBR
Later access Artifact & documentation
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The Short Life of Digital Info: Digital Longevity Problems-
✿ Disappearing Information✿ The Viewing Problem✿ The Scrambling Problem✿ The Inter-relation Problem✿ The Custodial Problem✿ The Translation Problem
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The Viewing Problem
✿ Digital Info requires a whole infrastructure to view it
✿ Each piece of that infrastructure is changing at an incredibly rapid rate (software versions, file formats, operating systems, storage devices)
✿ How can we ever hope to deal with all the permutations and combinations
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Viewing Problem
• Requires new file formats and new physical strata at regular intervals
• Needs a serious Managed Environment• Main InterPARES finding--the need for
complete lifecycle management– archivist needs to be incolved when record is
created and throughout active life
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Responding to serious Longevity Problems
✿ Previous formats required little ongoing intervention (remote storage facilities, Iron Mtn); digital formats require intense ongoing management
✿ Need for:✿ Preservation Repositories✿ Preservation Metadata
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Conceptual Approaches to Digital Preservation
• Refreshing always necessary due to volatility of physical strata– Impact on evidential value
• Migration -- advantages & disadvantages• Emulation -- advantages & disadvantages
• And will need a long-term managed environment
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Migration
• Wordstar to Word 1 to Word 3, …• -Tables and complex features often get
corrupted• -Need to repeat every 4-5 years (maybe
forever)• +We know how to do this ourselves• +If there’s a problem, we can catch it soon
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Emulation• Keep the Wordstar file format, but write emulators to make
it work in newer environments• +A better chance of carrying over complexity• +Many more features can survive• -Problems may not be caught until it’s too late• -Specialists and a whole infrastructure of emulators
required• -Serious © problems (reverse engineering?)
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Possible endless need for reformatting implies
• Possible loss with each generation• Requires managed environment
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Managed Environment
• More than temperature & humidity control• Periodic monitoring of the works• Periodic monitoring of the technical
environment for viewing the works (software, systems, hardware)
• Trusted repositories
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OCLC/RLG �Digital Repository Attributes
• Administrative responsibility• Organizational viability• Financial sustainability• Technological suitability• System security• Procedural accountability• Certification
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Preservation Repositories:�too difficult for small institutions
• Too complex for small institutions to manage• Will be done through partnering (small museum or dance
company with University) or through consortia (museum association, state-wide organization, …) or through service bureaus (OCLC, Cloud)
• Archive or museum will direct what is needed, but digital repository will carry out the actual work (as defined in SIP/DIP/AIP agreement)
• And many will choose to just outsource the storage part of the repository because today there are many vendors offering this-
Cloud Storage Vendors
• Amazon (Glacier, S3, …)• Google• Microsoft• Many others
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Cloud Storage Business Models
• Often based on frequency of access– Cheapest options are often “dark” or “dim”
storage (charge less for storage, but a lot for access)
– Think of them as “back-up”, not “access”
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Examine costs Before you sign up
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Cloud Storage concerns• Is the storage reliable? Is it secure?• Will the company continue to stay in business?• Will the company continue to offer the service at a
reasonable price?• If you decide to move to another company, how
much will the first company change you, and how long will it take?
• And because Cloud Storage services don’t migrate the formats, you will always still have the problem of How will you read the old file formats in the future?
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Key issues to remember
• The file formats of today will become obsolete
• The storage devices that you use today will be inaccessible 20 years in the future
• So you need to have a plan to manage these changes
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Paradigms Shifts neededOld New
Physical preservation
atmospheric cntrl ongoing mgmt
What to save? artifact idea + ancillary material & documentation
Cataloging Individual work in hand
FRBR
Later access Artifact & documentation
Restaging, ancillary material & documentation
Some last thoughts• Follow-up to Joaquim
– IIIF—International Image Interchange Format– Ferrez example
• Did you know that (depending on what parameters you set) your digital camera/phone can capture many different types of hidden metadata?– Camera settings, date, time, location, …– But that some or all of these can disappear when
you move the photo to another device
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Digital Photos as tool for�Cultural Heritage Preservation
Howard Besser, NYU Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program
• http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Talks • http://www.nyu.edu/ tisch/preservation• Longevidade Digital https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
260301901_Longevidade_Digital• https://archive.org/details/personaldigitalarchiving• http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2015/08/report-on-the-personal-digital-
archiving-2015-conference/• https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/discover-the-national-museum-of-brazil-museu-
nacional-ufrj/5gJywQA_-ABfJw
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