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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: Electronic document description standards: A technical feasibility study of their use in the microform preservation of contextual cues embedded in structured electronic documents during digital/analog/digital reformatting Abstract: Preserving archival, state government agency, electronic records in a manner that ensures access to future generations, potentially thousands of years from the present, requires an inventive approach that simultaneously exploits computer-input and- output microfilming technologies and optical character recognition software along with the use of descriptive markup. No existing research has examined the possibility of an integrated, hybrid preservation solution using these technologies. Microfilm has been selected as the desired storage medium, due to its demonstrated archival longevity, the existence of peripheral computer-output microfilm devices, and the time-independent ability of humans to recapture information written to film and the use of an analog storage medium necessistates the use of reformatting technologies. Losses in contextual information, however, frequently occur during conversion of digital information to an interim analog storage medium. The research addressed here experimentally demonstrated and evaluated the technical difficulty of a process that attempts to mitigate such conversion losses using descriptive markup, and evaluated end user assessments of contextual information losses that occurred during the process of electronic document reconstitution from the analog storage medium. |
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