Personal Multimedia Preservation: Remembering or Forgetting Images and Video

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Multimedia Preservation: Why Bother? (Claudia Niederée, Vasileios Mezaris, Heiko Maus, Robert H. Logie)....Pages 3-8 Preserving and Forgetting in the Human Brain (Robert H. Logie, Maria Wolters, Elaine Niven)....Pages 9-45 Multimedia Processing Essentials (Konstantinos Apostolidis, Foteini Markatopoulou, Christos Tzelepis, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Patras)....Pages 47-98 Front Matter ....Pages 99-99 Preservation Value and Managed Forgetting (Claudia Niederée, Nattiya Kanhabua, Tuan Tran, Kaweh Djafari Naini)....Pages 101-129 Keeping Information in Context (Mark A. Greenwood, Nam Khanh Tran, Konstantinos Apostolidis, Vasileios Mezaris)....Pages 131-182 Bridging Information Management and Preservation: A Reference Model (Francesco Gallo, Claudia Niederée, Walter Allasia)....Pages 183-229 Front Matter ....Pages 231-231 Remembering and Forgetting for Personal Preservation (Heiko Maus, Christian Jilek, Sven Schwarz)....Pages 233-277 Personal Photo Management and Preservation (Andrea Ceroni)....Pages 279-314 Back Matter ....Pages 315-339