Personal Multimedia Preservation by Vasileios Mezaris

Personal Multimedia Preservation by Vasileios Mezaris

This unique text/reference advocates a novel forgetful approach to dealing with personal multimedia content in the long run, which is inspired by the effectiveness of human forgetting as a mechanism for helping us to stay focused on important things. The text presents theoretical foundations, technologies, applications, and case study results that help the reader to understand the problems and challenges associated with personal digital preservation, and the solutions that can be developed in response to these challenges.

Topics and features: Highlights the value of an intelligent and selective approach to personal multimedia preservation, involving managed forgetting and contextualized remembering; considers how a conceptual understanding of human memory function can be used to inspire the design of digital managed preservation and forgetting; discusses methods that endow computers with capabilities to understand digital content, in order to support intelligent preservation decisions; examines the assessment of the importance of information items, introducing the concepts of memory buoyancy and preservation value; reviews methods for preserving the context associated with a digital item, and for assessing how this context evolves over time; proposes a reference model for the Preserve-or-Forget (PoF) approach which is integrative, value-driven, brain-inspired, forgetful, and evolution-aware; describes the integration of preservation functionalities in a Personal Information Management (PIM) application; presents a user study on a photo selection task, using the results to design methods for automatically selecting important photos from personal collections.

This interdisciplinary volume provides significant insights from computer science, engineering and psychology that will be of great interest to researchers involved in multimedia and software engineering, multimedia preservation, cultural informatics, digital heritage, and the digital humanities.

Dr. Vasileios Mezaris is a Senior Researcher at the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Centre for Research of Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece.

Dr. Claudia Niederée is affiliated with the L3S Research Center in Hannover, Germany, where she works as a research group leader. She was coordinator of the ForgetIT EU project (2013-2016), which looked into digital forgetting processes in the context of preservation.

Prof. Robert H. Logie is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he is currently Professor of Human Cognitive Neuroscience within the Department of Psychology and the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology.

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ISBN 13	9783030087937
ISBN 10	303008793X
Title	Personal Multimedia Preservation
Author	Vasileios Mezaris
Series	Springer Series On Cultural Computing
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Year published	2019-01-11
Number of pages	339
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