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Rescuing Diskmags: Towards Scholarly [Re]Digitisation of an Early Born-Digital Heritage

Torsten Roeder    Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität, Universität Würzburg, Deutschland    

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Disk magazines are a special type of periodical that was published on floppy disk mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. Created by home computer enthusiasts for the community, disk magazines are potentially valuable as a historical resource to study the experiences of programmers, users and gamers in the early stage of microcomputing. The material preserved by fan communities could be a starting point to derive scientifically reliable resources. Creating a digital scholarly edition from the material needs not only to consider the original encoding and hardware standards, but also include the necessary role of emulation and hardware preservation.

Subtags: Textual data Publication Analysis Born digital artefacts Technology

Pubblicato
30 Giugno 2022
Accettato
06 Giugno 2022
Presentato
17 Marzo 2022
Lingua
EN

Keywords: TEIAnnotationHome computersDigital scholarly editionDisk magazinesDigitisationDemosceneGaming

Copyright: © 2022 Torsten Roeder. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.