User:Flanagan Institute Applicant/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Digital obsolescence


 * Article Evaluation
 * The first thing you notice about the Wikipedia article for digital obsolescence is that the article itself is obsolete: having a updating notification posted for more than six years, and a lot can certainly occur in the digital preservation field since January 2015. Looking over the content, the article has a good composition, with sections devoted to concerns with hardware and software issues, and concluding with a section on prevention strategies.  The language of the article is mature and descriptive, so there isn't much of a barrier for understanding by non-students or experts among the readership, unlike some scientifically-oriented articles can be on the site.  Only one image is present in the article, of the BBC Domesday Laserdisc project: perhaps there is room for more if the updates warrant further visual aid on the topics within the text.  Ultimately, I determine that there is little within the article that needs to be overhauled because it is objectively lacking information or subjective quality: as the opening alert states, the main issue is that it is in sore need of informational updates.

Inns, S., & Inns, S. (2018, May 29). Domesday86.com. Retrieved October 2, 2021, from https://www.domesday86.com/.
 * Sources

Jethani, S., & Leorke, D. (2013). Ideology, obsolescence and preservation in digital mapping and locative art. International Communication Gazette, 75(5-6), 484–501. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048513491904

Rosenthal, D. S. H. (2010). Format obsolescence: Assessing the threat and the defenses. Library Hi Tech, 28(2), 195–210. https://doi.org/10.1108/07378831011047613

Rubio, F. D., & Wharton, G. (2020). The work of art in the age of Digital Fragility. Public Culture, 32(1), 215–245. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816365

Duranti, L. (2005). The long-term preservation of accurate and Authentic Digital Data: The INTERPARES project. Data Science Journal, 4, 106–118. https://doi.org/10.2481/dsj.4.106

Le Meur, J.-Y., & Tarocco, N. (2019). The obsolescence of Information and Information Systems CERN Digital Memory Project. EPJ Web of Conferences, 214, 09003. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921409003