CDO Literature Review

General

Preserving Complex Digital Objects edited by Janet Delve and David Anderson: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=10751
- This edited volume is the result of the preservation of Complex Objects Symposia: http://www.pocos.org/
- Earlier versions of some of the articles in the book (and several articles that are not included in the book) are available here: http://www.pocos.org/publications.php
- As you can see from the site, POCOS, divided "complex objects" into 3 major categories:
  - visualizations & simulations
  - software art
  - videogames & virtual worlds
Preserving Our Digital Heritage:The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program 2010 Report A Collaborative Initiative of The Library of Congress. First issued January 2011.
Galloway, Patricia. “Retrocomputing, Archival Research, and Digital Heritage Preservation: A Computer Museum and iSchool Collaboration." Library Trends 59.4 (2011): 623-636.
Software Preservation Network's Digital Preservation/Software Preservation Bibliography
Ball, Alex. "Preserving Computer-Aided Design (CAD)": http://dx.doi.org/10.7207/twr13-02

Archaeology

Archaeology Data Service / Digital Antiquity Guides to Good Practice: http://guides.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk

Architecture

Untangling the Knot of CAD Preservation: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/08/untangling-the-knot-of-cad-preservation/
Collaborative Preservation Efforts of CAD/BIM Files: http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/IS&TPaper_Aliza%20Leventhal.pdf
FACADE2 Project Reports: https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab/proj/facade2

Art

The museum community has been working on the preservation of CDOs for 25 years, here is an abbreviated bibliography for "variable media":
- Winget, Megan. “Like a Wave upon the sand: Digital Preservation of Variable Media Art”, University of Texas faculty website, 2005. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~megan/research/Winget_DigPres.pdf, accessed on October 20, 2011.
- The Smithsonian Institution. “Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art: A Summary of Discussion Group Sessions of a Colloquium Co-organized by the Lunder Conservation Center Of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery And the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.” May 2010 http://www.si.edu/Content/consortia/Time-Based-Art_Report.pdf, accessed on October 12, 2011
- Tate: Research Projects: Matters in Media Art – Collaborating Towards the Care of Time Based Media http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/majorprojects/mediamatters/, accessed on October 3, 2011
- Ahmed, Salah Uddin , et al.. “Information Technology and Art: Concepts and State of the Practice.” 2008, SArt project, http://prosjekt.idi.ntnu.no/sart/publications/BChapter2_IT&Art.pdf, accessed on 10/1/2011
- Rinehart, Richard, “The Media Art Notation System: Documenting and Preserving Digital/Media Art”, LEONARDO, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 181–187, 2007, http://www.coyoteyip.com/rinehart/papers_files/leonardo_mans.pdf, accessed on October 29, 2011
- Fino-Radin, Ben. “Digital Preservation Practives and the Rhizome Artbase 2011, Rhizome.org, http://media.rhizome.org/blog/8332/rhizome-digital-preservation-practices.pdf, p.19, accessed on October 21, 2011
- Variable Media Network http://www.variablemedia.net/e/index.html, accessed on October 1, 2011
- Guggenheim: The Variable Media Initiative main page http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/conservation/conservation-projects/variable-media , accessed on October 20, 2011.
  - Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on Variable Media http://variablemedia.net/e/preserving/html/var_pre_index.html, accessed on October 29, 2011
http://sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/supporting-changing-research-practices-art-historians

Interview and survey examples

Purdue University Libraries' Data Curation Profiles Toolkit provides a guide for discussing data with researchers, and creates a starting point for curating a data set for archiving & preservation.

"Where Have All the Scientific Data Gone? LIS Perspective on the Data-At-Risk Predicament" http://crl.acrl.org/content/75/6/842.short

- As part of an effort to more fully understand the data-at-risk predicament, researchers who were engaged in the DARI project at UNC’s Metadata Research Center surveyed information custodians working in a range of settings. The survey collected information on the data characteristics and preservation plans. Forty-three information custodians completed the survey.
- This study's methodology is based on data management and preservation surveys conducted at Cornell, Yale, and UNC
  "Sustaining the Digital Humanities: Host Institution Support beyond the Start-Up Phase

"Sustaining the Digital Humanities: Host Institution Support beyond the Start-Up Phase:" http://sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/sustaining-digital-humanities
- Implementation Toolkit: http://sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/sustainability-implementation-toolkit
  - Assess the Landscape: http://sr.ithaka.org/content/assess-landscape