User:Gp1791/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 artifactual value


 * Article Evaluation
 * Within the scope of WikiProject Collections Care which is currently inactive. I was not able to come away from this article with a better, concise, understanding of what digital artifactual value is. The lead section of the article is very small and in need of expansion. The majority of the article focuses on defining the intrinsic value of analog archival material (the length of this section seems out of place in an article about digital intrinsic value), and establishing intrinsic value of digital surrogates of analog material. There is hardly any discussion of the intrinsic value of born-digital content. The final section, "Value in new media art" could be greatly expanded from the two sentences it currently is. The majority of sources cited are from the 1990s and early 2000s, the latest source being from 2010. The article relies heavily on direct quotations from a select few of the sources. The sections on "Differing notions of artifactual value" and "Standards for establishing value" are good editions content-wise, but they could be made to be more concise. Only one user has posted on the talk page, about copyright issues.


 * Sources
 * I was not able to find any scholarly books or journal articles published about this topic within the past ten years. The two sources above are both technically blog posts, but they are blogs hosted by major players in the field - the Library of Congress and Lucidea.
 * I was not able to find any scholarly books or journal articles published about this topic within the past ten years. The two sources above are both technically blog posts, but they are blogs hosted by major players in the field - the Library of Congress and Lucidea.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Data archaeology


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated C-Class in WikiProject Computing, WikiProject Digital Preservation, and WikiProject Archaeology. This is a very short article that would benefit greatly from expansion. There are only three sources cited in the article. Rather than overviews or discussions of data archaeology in general, the three sources are all publications related to specific data archaeology projects undertaken by institutions like NASA and NARA. More general discussion of data archaeology as a concept is needed, as well as best practice techniques. The talk page discusses the lack of quality information published on this topic.


 * Sources
 * I have to agree with the discussion on the talk page. This is the only definitive source I was able to locate, and it is from 1999.
 * I have to agree with the discussion on the talk page. This is the only definitive source I was able to locate, and it is from 1999.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Death and the Internet


 * Article Evaluation
 * Rated Start-Class WikiProject Digital Preservation, Start-Class, High Importance WikiProject Death, Start-Class WikiProject Internet, and Start-Class, High Importance WikiProject Internet culture. This article has a decent lead section that gives a good overview of the topic. The rest of the article is split into subsections relating the deceased user policies of popular online platforms, and any related controversies. The article could use one or more sections discussing various schools of thought surrounding the topic before launching into these examples. There are 41 cited sources, though many of them are from popular news outlets such as Huffington Post and Buzzfeed. There are also citations of court cases. In addition to an expanded discussion of legal issues surrounding death and internet accounts, a section on issues of digital preservation of deceased peoples' digital content might also be appropriate. There is minimal discussion on the talk page.


 * Sources

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Digital inheritance


 * Article Evaluation
 * Rated Start-Class WikiProject Digital Preservation, Start-Class, Mid-Importance WikiProject Computing, and Start-Class, Mid-Importance WikiProject Death. This article tackles the more legal side of things in regard to digital content of the deceased. It does a good job of defining various terminology and is well organized with many subheadings. The content in each subheading is short, however, and could be expanded. Again, because this is a relatively new topic, most of the sources cited come from popular newspaper outlets - this particular article cites heavily from BBC news. The talk page discusses merging articles on Digital Estates and Digital Wills into this larger article.


 * Sources

Option 5

 * Article title
 * PDF/A


 * Article Evaluation
 * Rated C-Class, Mid-Importance WikiProject Computing, Low-Importance WikiProject Software, and C-Class, Mid-Importance WikiProject Libraries. This is a well-paced and organized article that has had fairly robust discussions on its talk page. There are 38 sources cited in the article. It's possible, however, that content could be slightly biased or skewed, as the majority of sources were published by the PDF Association. I think the article would be more well-rounded with a section discussing its practical uses, and effectiveness, as a digital preservation tool and the extent to which it is used by archival repositories.


 * Sources