Saturday, July 18, 2009

Black Table Tops At Wedding Reception



It is known that an electronic document is merely a series of pulses in binary logic housed in the tracks of a computer, that no one will ever see or interpret without the aid of the computer itself. So it happens that in the electronic document form is finally separated from the content and that can not be disposed of nothing but work on this or that representation (a video or print) the document, all copies (conforming? ) of an "original" otherwise invisible.

The document as a synchronic object has literally disappeared as a hypothetical god, I could feel the effects, but their root is unknowable. The diplomacy is going digital, compared with markup languages \u200b\u200band control procedures production / conservation, seeking only diachronic statements of authenticity. The document does not guarantee more of himself but the guarantee would come from the cognitive chain of relationships it has with all other documents in the collection, as with the dataset web pages.

The existence of the document as a representation of an unknowable object loses, so the Boolean certainty of belonging to a defined set and moved within a certain probability, which is typical of the humanities, logic fuzzy sets and its uncertain blurred, with truth values \u200b\u200bof between zero and one. Just as is happening in the courts, the presumption of authenticity of a document produced (whether analog or digital) is more convenient to take it for granted, to be false.

He has recently (June 30-July 3, 2009) discussed in a seminar Roman CASPAR project ( Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval ), project co-funded by the Sixth Framework Programme European Union Development and applications of the model, source of NASA and ISO standard OAIS (Open Archival Information System ) for long-term preservation of digital objects.

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