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  • New Publication in Records Management Journal, “Archiving experience: An exploration of the challenges of preserving virtual reality.”

    Image of a 3D model of a skull, seen from the inside in a VR environment.

     

    Purpose

    This paper aims to explore the opportunities and challenges that immersive virtual reality (VR) technologies pose for archival theory and practice.

    Design/methodology/approach

    This conceptual paper reviews research on VR adoption in information institutions and the preservation challenges of VR to identify ways in which VR has the potential to disrupt existing archival theory and practice.

    Findings

    Existing archival approaches are found to be disrupted by the multi-layered structural characteristics of VR, the part–whole relationships between the technological elements of VR environments and the three-dimensional content they contain and the immersive, experiential nature of VR experiences. This paper argues that drawing on perspectives from phenomenology and digital materiality is helpful for addressing the preservation challenges of VR.

    Research limitations/implications

    The findings extend conceptualizations of preservation by identifying gaps in existing preservation approaches to VR and stressing the importance of “experience” as a central element of archival practice and by emphasizing the embodied dimensions of interpreting archival records and the multiple scales of materiality that archival researchers and practitioners should consider to preserve VR.

    Practical implications

    These findings provide guidance for digital curators and preservationists by outlining the current thinking on VR preservation and the impact of VR on digital preservation strategies.

    Originality/value

    This paper gives new insight into VR as an emerging area of concern to digital curation and preservation and expands archival thinking with new conceptualizations that disrupt existing paradigms.

     

    Citation: 

    Lischer-Katz, Z. (2020), Archiving experience: An exploration of the challenges of preserving virtual reality. Records Management Journal, 30 (2), 253-274. https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0054

    May 21, 2020 / ZLK / Comments Off on New Publication in Records Management Journal, “Archiving experience: An exploration of the challenges of preserving virtual reality.”

    Categories: 3D Models, Preservation, publications, Research, VR for Pedagogy, VR for Scholarship, VR Preservation

    Tags: 3D data, preservation, virtual reality

    New Publication in the Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, “Barriers to Supporting Accessible VR in Academic Libraries” New Publication in C&RL Journal: “3D Data Repository Features, Best Practices, and Implications for Preservation Models: Findings from a National Forum”

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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

-Walter Benjamin

Contact

You can contact Zack Lischer-Katz by emailing him at zlkatz@email.arizona.edu

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