Rescuing Diskmags: Towards Scholarly [Re]Digitisation of an Early Born-Digital Heritage
Abstract
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.
Presentato: 17 Marzo 2022 | Accettato: 06 Giugno 2022 | Pubblicato 30 Giugno 2022 | Lingua: en
Keywords Digital scholarly edition • Digitisation • TEI • Annotation • Disk magazines • Home computers • Demoscene • Gaming
Subtags Technology Textual data Analysis Publication Born digital artefacts
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2022/05/006