Saving Content in Digital Surroundings: A Safe Solution?
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Antoinette Maget Dominicé
Antoinette Maget Dominicé is a junior professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. She holds a doctoral degree in both law and the history of art. Her research mainly focuses on cultural heritage protection, history of collections and provenance.
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Dario Henri Haux
Dario Henri Haux is a PhD student and academic assistant at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. In 2019/20 he is pursuing a postgraduate degree (LL.M.) at Columbia University Law School in New York. His research mainly focuses on information technology & IP law, Internet & Society and art & culture law.
Fabienne Sarah Graf is an academic assistant at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Starting her PhD research this year, she is currently also a LL.M. student at the Duke University, School of Law. Her research interests include data processing problems, information technology and IP as well as art law.
Abstract
Cultural institutions save most of their digital-born and digitalized content within the digital sphere. In doing so, they rely on cloud computing and servers, barely taking into consideration that this infrastructure may fail one day. Furthermore, the institutions seem to factor out that these attempts may be related to profound changes in the digital objects.
Our paper aims to explore this situation by focusing on sustainability within the digital realm. In the deliberate process of saving born-digital content, should we run the risk of inadvertently losing the content’s individual character itself? Should we embrace the possibility that dynamic content might be transformed into purely static data – ceasing to be relevant for users?
How can we find a solution, set between archiving and the continuous promotion of digital culture? Might it be, that born-digital cultural heritage is not made for storage? Has the eager preservation of cultural heritage become a historical oddity that will not last the test of time, due to its nature?
About the authors
Antoinette Maget Dominicé is a junior professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. She holds a doctoral degree in both law and the history of art. Her research mainly focuses on cultural heritage protection, history of collections and provenance.
Dario Henri Haux is a PhD student and academic assistant at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. In 2019/20 he is pursuing a postgraduate degree (LL.M.) at Columbia University Law School in New York. His research mainly focuses on information technology & IP law, Internet & Society and art & culture law.
Fabienne Sarah Graf is an academic assistant at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Starting her PhD research this year, she is currently also a LL.M. student at the Duke University, School of Law. Her research interests include data processing problems, information technology and IP as well as art law.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Digital Ontology and Epistemology. Between Law, Literature and the Visual Arts
- “The Earth Is Flat!” The Literary Complexity of Truth, Lies and Fake Knowledge
- Saving Content in Digital Surroundings: A Safe Solution?
- Digital Justice: Shining Future or Illusory Chimera?
- “Select before You Collect”: Uses and Abuses of Profiling and Data Mining in Law and Literature
- Supposing the Law: Nomos and Categorical Imperatives in Never Let Me Go
- Digital Voodoo: Who Does What?
- Forensic Iconicity: The Experimental Law’s Whatness in Digital Culture
- Research
- Digital Media, Fears, and Their Ontological Demagogic Power: Utopia, Homeland, Occupied
- Law as Literature: The Interdisciplinary Endeavour of Oudropo,, and Their Interdisciplinary Play with Text
- The Merchant of Venice and the Paschal Moon
- Book Reviews
- Daniela Carpi: Monsters and Monstrosity. From the Canon to the Anti-Canon: Literary and Juridical Subversions
- Jonas Ross Kjærgård, Reimagining Society in Eighteenth-Century French Literature
