Digital Heritage – archive

Spinning up the first 8″ disk

Proceeding with our 8″ recovery project: After a short while the 24V power supply and the cable adapter board arrived from the U.S. Both have power requirements and fit traditional PC power cable sockets. To actually connect the 8” drive without external power...

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An 8″ Floppy Disk Challenge

The university archive in Freiburg recently received a set of 8” floppy disks which might contain interesting case and research data. The hand-over procedure did not generate much valuable information, but just a stack of those disks with some additional paper stuck...

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Congratulations Dongwon Jo

Our Digital Heritage collaborator, Dr Dongwon Jo, has been awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Korean National Research Foundation. Currently the recipient of an Endeavour Award, Dongwon has been at Flinders for the last 5 months, conducting...

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Archives in The Netherlands

On 15 and 16 August, Dr de Vries visited the Utrechts Archives and National Archives in The Netherlands. Utrecht Archives The municipality of Utrecht and the Utrecht Archives are collaborating on the project e-depot (electronic deposit).  They are researching the...

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BDAX 2016

Between 18-20 July, Melanie Swalwell will attend the 2016 Born Digital Archiving Exchange, at Stanford University. Organised by staff from Stanford University Libraries, the event is intended as an opportunity for experts to share ideas, techniques and best practices...

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Lori Emerson

In late May, we’ll be hosting Dr Lori Emerson, from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Lori will be giving a number of talks at Flinders, the details of which are below, along with her bio. She is visiting in conjunction with Melanie Swalwell’s Future Fellowship...

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Dr Craig Mudge AO

Dr Craig Mudge AO, foundation professor of Computer Science at Flinders 1990-94, visited the Computer Archaeology Lab today. Dr Mudge received the Officer for the Order of Australia, in January 2016, for his work in science, particularly through pioneering initiatives...

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Erik Champion seminar

On Friday 18th December, Prof Erik Champion (Curtin University) will be presenting a seminar on his research.  All welcome. Details: 3:30-4:30pm at Flinders Tonsley campus, Room 5.29.  Ample free parking is available.  Directions are available here.  A tour of the...

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Film launched

Melanie Swalwell, co-convenor of the Digital Heritage research group, launched a short 6 min film on her Future Fellowship research project into ‘Creative Microcomputing’ last week. The film features some of the great people and a range of the digital heritage...

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Hardware needed!

The computer archaeology lab is seeking the following items for our preservation work. Monitor with SCART connector Disk drive for an Apple IIc Commodore 128D keyboard Dual audio cassette player/recorder Also, we need disk boxes for 3.5″ and 5.25″ diskettes. If you...

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UNESCO PERSIST Taskforce

Dr Denise de Vries has been invited to join the UNESCO PERSIST (Platform to Enhance the Sustainability of the Information Society Transglobally) project taskforce The UNESCO PERSIST project, a cooperation between UNESCO, the International Council on Archives (ICA),...

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Stanford CaptureLab 2015

A wonderfully productive week was had at Stanford University’s CaptureLab. It was sheer bliss to spend time with a group of people who all care about digital heritage. There were archivists, librarians, curators and computer scientists sharing information and...

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Seminar 4th August

Visiting scholar Dr Maria Garda (Univ of Lodz, Poland) and Helen Stuckey (PhD student, Flinders) will present their current research on Tuesday 4th August. 1:30-3:00pm at Flinders Tonsley campus, 4.28. Abstracts and bios are below. We will meet for lunch at Tonsley...

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Job Opportunity: Research Associate

There is currently a position open for a Research Associate who will work on the “Play It Again” project, a multi-disciplinary project to create a playable history of Australasian digital games, for industry, community and research purposes. The focus of this research...

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International Council on Archives

Mr David Fricker, who is the President of the International Council on Archives and Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, visited the Computer Archaeology Laboratory today. Dr de Vries and Mr Fricker discussed the complexities of digital preservation...

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Lab Launch

Marty Gauvin (Tier 5 and Flinders University Council) officially launched our new Computer Archaeology Lab last Thursday, 30th April.  You can read the press release about it here. Several media outlets (including The Advertiser and ABC Perth) were good enough to pick...

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Lunchtime seminar

There will be a lunchtime research seminar of the Dept of Screen and Media, on Monday 4th May from 1pm, featuring papers by two scholars, Graeme Kirkpatrick (UK/Sweden) and Melanie Swalwell (Flinders), working in the emerging field of game history. You are welcome to...

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Graeme Kirkpatrick lecture

On Wed 29th April, Graeme Kirkpatrick will give a lecture at Flinders entitled “How gaming became sexist: a study of UK gaming magazines 1981-1995”.  The abstract is below. 2pm in Sturt Theatre.  All welcome! Graeme is visiting Adelaide as one of the international...

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Obituary: Craig Harrington

Craig Harrington, a PhD candidate in the School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics and a valued member of the Play It Again project team, died 7 October 2014. After completing a BSc and BSc (Honours First Class), Craig was awarded a scholarship to pursue...

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New Computer Archaeology Lab

I got my first look inside our Computer Archaeology Lab today, part of the new Flinders Tonsley campus. We’ve started moving our computers from the main campus to here, unpacking boxes, stacking shelves, and setting up our disk imaging stations. There are lots of...

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Emulation-as-a-Service

Today we had a great presentation from Dr Klaus Rechert and Dr Dirk von Suchodoletz  from University of Freiburg about their work on emulation as a cloud service. The link to the demo site for their work is https://demo.bw-fla.uni-freiburg.de/ Login using the username...

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PhD scholarship topup

A strong candidate (1st class Hons in a relevant field) is sought to join our growing digital heritage research team at Flinders.  You will undertake a PhD researching the history of educational software in 1980s Australia. Details and application materials are here. ...

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Masterclass

Visiting net.art preservationist, Dr Anne Laforet, will be offering a masterclass where she will discuss two of the works she has studied in detail, JODI’s “OSS/••••” (1998-2005) and Antoine Schmitt’s “still living H, I, J” (2006).  As Laforet has written “[the work...

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visit by Ian Welch

Ian Welch from Victoria University visited Flinders this week to talk about progress on the New Zealand team’s remote emulation strategy for the Play It Again project. The team (Stuart Marshall and Tania Jacobs) are experimenting with a Javascript/HTML5 viewer for the...

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CFP may be of interest

The Play It Again team’s call for papers may be of interest to people reading this blog.  The theme is “The Born Digital and Cultural Heritage”.  The international conference will be held in Melbourne from 19-20 June, 2014.  Full details are here.

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23rd July meetup

The next Digital Heritage research group meeting will be on Tuesday 23rd July, 12-2pm.  At this meeting, some of the Play It Again team will talk about the work they’re doing for the “Popular Memory Archive” which is currently under construction.  Here is a short...

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First meeting

The first meeting of the newly formed Digital Heritage research group was held on 25th March, 2013.  We had a great mix of internal Flinders people from both ‘sides of the lake’ as well as members of the community and representatives from the Adelaide cultural sector....

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