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Hermeneutic Implications of Cultural Encoding: A Reflection on Audio Recordings and Interactive Installation Art

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This article proposes a reflection on what the emerging discipline of digital philology means to the encoding, preservation and access of multimedia cultural material. In particular, it focuses on audio recordings and interactive multimedia installations. It describes a general setup required for the re-mediation of audio recordings that supports a philologically informed methodology for long-term preservation, and it points out some of the major challenges posed by interactive art in long-term preservation. This article extends the discussion started at the IRCDL in 2013, in the light of the authors’ activity during this time.

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Notes

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    Re-mediation is the process of transferring the [acoustic] information from a medium onto another medium.

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    To overcome this gap, some of the authors have organised the First International Workshop on Digital Philology for the Preservation of Sound Archives (IPPSA) on the 17th of September 2015 near Padova in Italy. The Workshop aims to be a place for discussion on the present and future trends in digital philology: http://csc.dei.unipd.it/ippsa/index.html.

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    International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) 3 Project: http://www.interpares.org/ip3/ip3_index.cfm, last visit December 14th, 2015.

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    The experiment took place in December 2015 and some subjects were still expected to participate as this article was being written.

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    Federica Bressan, Tim Vets & Marc Leman

  2. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

    Sergio Canazza

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Bressan, F., Canazza, S., Vets, T., Leman, M. (2017). Hermeneutic Implications of Cultural Encoding: A Reflection on Audio Recordings and Interactive Installation Art. In: Agosti, M., Bertini, M., Ferilli, S., Marinai, S., Orio, N. (eds) Digital Libraries and Multimedia Archives. IRCDL 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 701. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56300-8_5

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