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+# Chapter 1
+
+/// all sorts of things 
+
+```
+extras:: 
+
+?https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015/10/15/philosophy-of-history-part-xiv-friedrich-nietzsche-history-as-art/ 
+
+
+```
+
+
+
+Evaluating Archives
+	  After the completion of curation work, one difficulty derived from the nature of the work is how to measure its success. While other fields may have more obvious ways to measure success, curation lacks specific standards to judge this abstract concept of success. Abrams attempts to capture this in four categories for evaluating the success of digital preservation (2021). These four categories are accessibility, integrity, authenticity, and usability. This unsurprisingly reflects many of the distinguishing factors of digital curation that have been common in the literature. Accessibility and usability are integral to user experience. //add about these first two/. Accessibility and usability reflect the use, reuse, and sharing of the work. Integrity and authenticity are crucial in attempts to prove ethical intermediation. These ideas highlight the responsibilities of the curator(s) to be transparent and construct a trustworthy workflow. This transparency can also help reduce various future replication crises (Slingerland et al., 2020) that may occur in many fields. Integrating transparency by documenting an archival workflow can improve the reproducibility and sustainability of archives. // dont just end it here/
+
+	// lil conclusion?  /The novelty of the discipline reinforces our need to rely on the umbrella definition of digital curators: those who collect, organize, and then disseminate information to users digitally. //For this project, I will be working with the practice and methodologies rather than the discipline. //
+
+<========================>
+
+Scoping Review
+This literature cannot stand alone to envision the entirety of what must be considered when conducting digital curation. Current practices must also be considered as published is often retrospective and often does always reflect details on technical, ethical, and general humanities considerations. This can be conducted with scoping review modified information architecture analysis of published archives. These were chosen from the articles selected for the literature review. The analysis is modified to reflect the findings from the literature review highlighting the accessibility, integrity, authenticity, and usability. Technical practicality was also taken note of such as file types, data structure, and metadata standards which were not often featured in the reviewed literature.
+
+""
+The selected examples for analysis cover a range of topics and represent a variety of global  // approaches to archiving. # are created and hosted by academic institutions. # were created // through funding by governments or large initiatives. 
+
+""
+	```Findings: mission statements reflect lit review
+	Accessibility, usability, integrity, and authenticity
+
+transparency 
+
+	```
+
+```Findings: tech practicality
+
+    php, html, xml, rdf
+
+# use some form of dublin core standards.
+# use xml schema, # of # were TEI-XML etc
+
+    accessibility
+
+    outsourcing: https://www.accesstomemory.org/en/
+ {{ what it means outsourcing and not building standards (ch3)}}
+```
+
+```Findings: linkage
+
+severe lack of connection between exhibits and archived items (aka their metadata)
+
+```
+
+```Findings: disciplinarity\
+
+who created 
+highly reflective originators discipline, so
+	not labeled or told  who made it
+	identifying the 
+	announcement of positionality and reflectivity
+```
+
+
+With these two approaches to gathering information on digital curation, this has reflected
+the current and best practices of digital curation. These findings are all to be considered in the creation of the archival workflow for Allegheny College.
+
+
+
+
+
+""
+
+
+I think you navigate that one section well -- maybe take out "indigenous" and say S.EA carving techniques that may be x,y,z in origin -- or something like that.
+
+Also, you can say something about how Gift Planning and Institutional Advancement had done some background research and shared it with you. 

Writing/Chomping/ch2-outline.md

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+# Chapter 2. 
+
+
+
+``` !!
+    include extras:: 
+
+    mega  == https://mega.io/startpage
+
+
+```
+
+//words/
+
+From the information gathered, we can now base this one/// 
+
+some standards problems
+    - tech 
+    - disciplines reflection
+    - other practicalities
+
+
+
+how to work with items, basic  questions 
+dublinCore and metadata
+
+2 trains of one 
+- tech
+- item 
+
+archival worflow timelune/ flow duagram
+
+### Designing The Digital Archive
+
+//technical writing, 
+
+    why rdf files
+    GoLang
+    Github
+    etc
+
+    static site building
+===
+    Item encoding 
+        rdf
+        dublinCore
+                - markdown?
+
+            diagram
+
+    goLang to jamstack
+        leverages Github
+            building and hosting
+
+        for both scales = full archives and none items 
+
+
+        openness and transparency 
+
+
+    product
+
+
+### Case Study: The Gifted Sculpture
+	Many academic institutions receive items from // blah blah/ Allegheny College // –/ periodoically
+
+
+
+```postIntro
+	Recognizing the history of the item
+    what info was given to me 
+    what it was recognized 
+```
+
+```Q/A
+
+following the discussion of what to do with items
+
+    repatriation
+    responsibility 
+
+
+our trust and questioning of the information given to us 
+
+```
+
+
+```Conclude case with
+
+Not me problems: 
+– !installation 
+    - and that it already occurred
+– the future of the item
+– future display and curation
+
+
+other considerations
+```
+ if someone was commissioned to create the archive and curate this item, how do they prove prove authentication
+
+ where is it going, what should it be made out of, sterile environment, can people touch it 
+
+
+accept vs curate 
+    where is the starting point?
+
+    if they just accept
+
+        how can it include infm justice and digital curation
+
+        antique roadshow:: whats it worth ? monetary and status worth? vs cultural contect
+
+
+        needs a more robust process to accept, curate, and display 
+
+        employ more folks or consultants at the ready
+
+
+        the story told,

Writing/Chomping/ch3-outline.md

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+# Chapter 3.
+
+
+``` !!
+    include extras:: 
+
+    seaHenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seahenge
+
+
+    types of history [Nietzsche]: https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015/10/15/philosophy-of-history-part-xiv-friedrich-nietzsche-history-as-art/
+        Nietzsche's three registers of historical practice are monumental, antiquarian, and critical. In short, monumental history is about activity and ambition, antiquarian history is about preservation and admiration, and critical history is about abolition and liberation.
+
+
+
+    terminology infographic: 
+        https://gogeometry.com/mindmap/formal_sciences_mind_map.html
+        https://www.google.com/search?q=disciplinary+terminology+system+map&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjxwcfpsLr6AhUaklMKHZR6BWEQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=disciplinary+terminology+system+map&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1C4C1j7H2C9IWgAcAB4AIABkQKIAYUVkgEFMC43LjeYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=YMI1Y_GREpqkzgKU9ZWIBg&bih=569&biw=1280&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS946US946#imgrc=ODoZr7WQH-CK5M
+
+```
+
+
+""
+
+
+dimensions -- ramifications to population level health
+
+not that informatics isnt also taking about it, we are just invested the health consequences 
+
+
+
+"""
+
+{{{
+
+
+digitization vs curation
+
+interdisciplinarity & terminology
+
+dynamic yet standardized methods
+a call for innovating institutions
+
+}}}
+
+!! Digitization vs curation;; digitization is a significant part of digital curation. Digital curation explicitly acknowledges the fact of intermediation and the addition of meaning while digitization does not. Not that digitization does not add meaning or perpetuate values as we already know from the fact of technology systems not being neutral. if this were just a computer science research project, it would just be digitization but because I worked with an interdisciplinary lense bringing in my studies from global health and anthropology this is a project on curation. Many scholars are disciplinarily focused, my position as a dual interdisciplinary major has allowed for me to explore the project and produce a coded project and the added meaning. Though this has resulted in drawbacks as well. More collaboration should be done before any of this research is used in "full production." This project is more of a proof of concept.
+Conclusions
+
+```
+recommendation = don't just rely on literature, it is necessary for interdisciplinary eyes on this, archives can be improved structurally but this will never alleviate all of the underlying problems, {my claims about radicalizing archives and move to impermeant archives, traveling collections and blockchain items}
+
+```
+
+radicalize archives
+groups sharing standards, resources, costs, and items 
+
+–
+claim
+archives are not able to be permanent structures
+
+reimagine a future with temporary archives
+access to different or more resources
+
+role of institutions 
+– waypoint, middle man, connect scholars and undergrads
+— warehousing / on campus displays
+more interest and already pursuing (role of institutional repositories)
+
+===
+the future of this item I've been working w/ is not set in stone
+I have practical reflection that the item will be here for some span of time 
+should it be used/seen/displayed elsewhere?
+should it be displayed at the institution it was given to?
+
+At this stage, collaboration is necessary and I believe the collegient resources will benefit the future interactions with the item 
+
+Will it stay here forever?
+I don't think it should
+Yet at this point, place, and time; it should stay until it can be added to another collection or space and gain or add meaning/context/ or further understanding.
+
+More than anything this item has sparked something great at Allegheny:
+a deep and complex conversation of ethical proceedings with items received. 
+
+There will be those daunted to interact in this sphere but it is vital for those of us willing to enter this sphere to be open to being wrong, learning, and continually pursue the morally right actions.
+
+
+"""
+"" This is not simply a problem in data architecture that can be overcome by better architecture" (Johnson, 2016)
+	>ch3 ending remarks for more work to be done in more spots than just restructuring archives
+

Writing/Chomping/forReview/chapter1.md

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 <==main writing point======================>
 
-// lil conclusion?  /The novelty of the discipline reinforces our need to rely on the umbrella definition of digital curators: those who collect, organize, and then disseminate information to users digitally. //For this project, I will be working with the practice and methodologies rather than the discipline. //
+// lil conclusion?  //The novelty of the discipline reinforces our need to rely on the umbrella definition of digital curators: those who collect, organize, and then disseminate information to users digitally. //For this project, I will be working with the practice and methodologies rather than the discipline./
 
 ## Scoping Review
 

Writing/Chomping/forReview/introduction.md

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 Developments in technology have attempted to close this gap. Research is constantly being conducted on generating better models, search engines, and visualizations. All of this research is based on the needs of attaching context to these seemingly arbitrary data. Processes such as indexing and cataloging create both human readable information and machine actionable knowledge so that computer based information systems can function. These systems at their core require some form of intervention by humans. Curation is the process of collecting, selecting, organizing, storing, and displaying items with their respective information. Digital curation does this with digital content, storage, displays and thus acting as a tool for the long-term preservation and access to the necessary resources (Sabharwal, 2015, p. 12). Curation, regardless of medium, is the entire process including smaller practices like indexing, cataloging, and digitization. This allows for practice of curation is an effective way to create data structures and systems like archives.
 
-While many assume objectivity in the creation of technological systems, according to Kranzberg's first law "Technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral" (//the kranzberg og writing/). These systems are reflective of the beliefs, positionalities, and cultures of people who created them.  //say more about non neutrality {1-2}, bridge to social/  This reinforces the idea that data is not just a technical process, but a social one as well (Johnson, 2016). //say more to finish the importance of data as a social thing and human thing {2-3} / 
+While many assume objectivity in the creation of technological systems, according to Kranzberg's first law "Technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral" (//the Kranzberg og writing/). These systems are reflective of the beliefs, positionalities, and cultures of people who created them.  //say more about non neutrality {1-2}, bridge to social/  This reinforces the idea that data is not just a technical process, but a social one as well (Johnson, 2016). //say more to finish the importance of data as a social thing and human thing {2-3} / 
 
 Technology, even though it has become more pervasive and available in the world, is still not experienced equally. There are still barriers such as access, awareness, and education to interact, change, and improve these systems. Where there is inequality, there is a call for justice. // preface quote, intro info justice and what that entails [i already express my belief of the human right to info in my preface]/ "Information systems cannot be neutral with respect to justice" (Johnson, 2016). //bridge to curation section, so like a gen sentence or two about systems needing to acknowledge justice in their creation/
 
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 The first chapter features the information gathering phase. I conducted a literature review on the best practices for digital curation. // Prep the lit review, maybe highlight the section headers/ While it dove into the important discussions, this review did not illuminate much creation and functionality of the published digital archives. To highlight current practices, I paired this literature review with a scoping review of published archives focused on information architecture and technical documentation. //Prep the scoping, highlight what I was looking for?/ The digital archives were selected from the ones cited as examples in the reviewed literature. // highlight major findings themes? if not covered by previous sentences/
 
-These findings were the basis for the next phase of the project: application. I created a digital archive representing the standards found. Though this digital artifact stands as public deliverable, the documentation of choices and the framework of the archival workflow are the featured work in chapter two. This chapter also features the application of the archival workflow with an item serving as a case study for my work. Of the many items donated to the institution, I had the opportunity to apply my research to a piece very recently gifted to Allegheny College. Visually, this piece is a tall cylindrical wooden pole featuring Southeast Asian indigenous wood carving techniques as well as natural elements like shells and grasses along with red, white, and black pigments. From the research given to me, this object was created post-1981 (Bocchi, n.d.) and purchased in Jakarta in the early 1990s. With this given background and some crucial visual features, we are able to conclude that this item is an art-for-export piece rather than an indigenous ritual bis pole. The wooden sculpture was specifically created for tourist consumption. Discussing repatriation is one of many manifestations of our archival workflow with this piece. My research and work will not complete the curation of this piece but instead acts as a working model of ethical curation at this institution. This project will utilize, comment, and suggest improvements for the archival process of items accepted into Allegheny College's archive. 
+These findings were the basis for the next phase of the project: application. I created a digital archive representing the standards found. Though this digital artifact stands as public deliverable, the documentation of choices and the framework of the archival workflow are the featured work in chapter two. This chapter also features the application of the archival workflow with an item serving as a case study for my work. Of the many items donated to the institution, I had the opportunity to apply my research to a piece very recently gifted to Allegheny College. Visually, this piece is a tall cylindrical wooden pole featuring South East Asian wood carving techniques as well as natural elements like shells and grasses along with red, white, and black pigments. From the research synthesized by the office of Gift Planning and Institutional Advancement at Allegheny College, this object was created post-1981 (Bocchi, n.d.) and purchased in Jakarta in the early 1990s. With this given background and some crucial visual features, we are able to conclude that this item is an art-for-export piece rather than an indigenous ritual bis pole. The wooden sculpture was specifically created for tourist consumption. Discussing repatriation is one of many manifestations of our archival workflow with this piece. My research and work will not complete the curation of this piece but instead acts as a working model of ethical curation at this institution. This project will utilize, comment, and suggest improvements for the archival process of items accepted into Allegheny College's archive. 
 
 The last phase is documentation and reflection. While topically focused on how we document and preserve items, this project will also be conducted with the same goals in mind. The archive and workflow are created to be replicable and sustainable, flexible but guiding for future curation. The only way to preserve this is through documentation. Most of the documentation will be attached to the digital archive in the repository or discussed in chapter two to explain technical decisions and. Chapter three will feature the reflections, especially through the lenses of global health studies and integrative informatics. The last chapter will also feature overall conclusions and claims that arose from the research and creation process through the lenses of global health and informatics.