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Digital media have placed a focus on sustainability sustainability in terms of long-term digital preservation of societal memories and cultural heritage. There is also discussion about technological issues, such as flexible infrastructures, standards and formats sustainability in digital design standards, formats, practices, which are explored in relation to how to build sustainable systems (Braa et al. 2004; Byrne 2005; Byrne and Sahay 2007). Further, while there already exists a body of knowledge about standards, classification, and category work (e.g. Star 1991; Bowker and Star 1999; Verran et al. 2007), it is also important to relate these standards, formats and routines sustainability in digital design standards, formats, practices in digital design to social sustainability in digital design social and cultural sustainability in digital design cultural sustainability, and not just durability.
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The third Gokstadboat was originally found in 1880, in one of the largest archaeological findings of Viking times in Norway, the Gokstad excavation. Three boats and the remnants of a ship were found in what is supposed to have been a king’s grave at Gokstad near Sandefjord, south of Oslo. The Gokstadship and the boats were found cut into pieces and packed flat in the grave. The Gokstadship and two of the reconstructed boats are exhibited in the Vikingship museum in Oslo, one of the museums of the university, and give an impression of completeness and truth as if there was no doubt about the form and shape of the nine hundred year-old fragments that were found. In the museum storeroom, the third boat from the Gokstad excavation has been stored in approximately two hundred pieces and fragments, as they were found in 1880. The third Gokstadboat was never reconstructed because too many fragments were missing. The fragments of this boat are still conserved in the museum’s collection.
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This chapter would not have been written without the civil servants, discussions with Terje Planke and Ole Smørdal. Thanks also to our fellow authors in this volume, to Eli Blevis, to participants in the seminar A Matter of Digital Materiality, CMC conference, University of Oslo November 2007, and to Heather Owen.
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Mörtberg, C., Stuedahl, D., Elovaara, P. (2010). Designing for Sustainable Ways of Living with Technologies. In: Wagner, I., Bratteteig, T., Stuedahl, D. (eds) Exploring Digital Design. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-223-0_9
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