Speaking with delegates at the 2020 Archiving Email Symposium. Photo by Mark Beatty
Dissertation
Samaras, E. (2021). Safeguarding digital telecinematic history and culture: Archiving film and television visual effects records [Doctoral dissertation, University of Technology Sydney]. Open Publications of UTS Scholars. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/148877
Alvik, L., Samaras, E. & Bradshaw, E. (2025). Invisible ZIPs: Unpacking ZIP file contents and adding PREMIS metadata in a digital preservation system. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Digital Preservation, New Zealand. https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2202011
Jones, M., Tropea, R., Barrowcliffe, R., Cameron, A., Freeman, E., Lowry, J., Loxton, D, & Samaras, E. (2024). Research and practice – A conversation. Archives and Manuscripts, 52(1), 13–28. https://doi.org/10.37683/asa.v52.11029
Samaras, E. (2022). Archiving visual effects: Filling a digital void in the documented memory of film and television. Archives and Manuscripts, 50(2), 81–88. https://doi.org/10.37683/asa.v50.10417
Samaras, E. (2021). Futureproofing visual effects: Challenges and strategies for preserving digital assets and records. International Journal of Digital Curation, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v16i1.689
Pennock, M, Day, M. & Samaras, E. (2019). Malware threats in digital preservation: Extending the evidence base. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation, Netherlands. https://ipres2019.org/static/pdf/iPres2019_paper_27.pdf
Samaras, E. & Johnston, A. (2019). Off-lining to tape is not archiving: Why we need real archiving to support media archaeology and ensure our visual effects legacy thrives. Leonardo, 52(4), 374–380. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01779
Rolan, G., Humphries, G., Jeffrey, L., Samaras, E., Antsoupova T. & Stuart, K. (2019). More human than human? Artificial intelligence in the archive. Archives and Manuscripts, 47(2), 179–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1502088
Samaras, E. & Johnston, A. (2018). Fleeting film: Using story to seek archival permanence in the transitory and globalized digital visual effects industry. Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, 47(1), 12–22. https://doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2018-0001
Talks
Samaras, E. (2025, November 10–13). Curbing our carbon footprint: Sustainable digital preservation [Paper presentation]. Telling Our Stories Australian Society of Archivists Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Samaras, E. (2022, October 26–28). Findings from a doctoral research project to investigate film and TV visual effects records and archiving practices [Paper presentation]. No Time to Wait! 6, The Hague, Netherlands.
Samaras, E. (2022, October 17–20). Building digital archiving capability at National Archives of Australia [Paper presentation]. Here We Are Australian Society of Archivists Conference, Canberra, Australia.
Samaras, E. (2021, September 14–17). Challenges and approaches for archiving (and appraising) visual effects industry records [Paper presentation]. Archives Amplified Australian Society of Archivists Conference.
Samaras, E. (2020, October 26–30). Preserving the immaterial: Digital visual effects records and archiving [Paper presentation]. 9th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives, Ann Arbor, USA.
Samaras, E. (2020, March 6). Managing and preserving digital VFX [Paper presentation]. GLAMSLAM, Sydney, Australia.
Samaras, E. (2020, January 30). Developing a practical end-to-end solution for managing email in Victorian Government [Paper presentation]. Archiving Email Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand.
Samaras, E. (2019, July 28 - August 1). Off-lining to tape is not archiving: Why we need real archiving to support media archaeology and ensure our visual effects legacy thrives [Paper presentation]. 46th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, USA.
Samaras, E. (2019, February 4–7). An archivist walks into a film VFX company... [Paper presentation]. 14th International Digital Curation Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Samaras, E. (2018, October 25–26). Archiving VFX: a research project to preserve evidence of film digital VFX production [Paper presentation]. No Time to Wait! 3, London, United Kingdom.
Blogs
Bradshaw, E. & Samaras, E. (2023, October 3). Nineteenth thing: Digital preservation. University of Melbourne 23 Research Things. https://doi.org/10.26188/25340449
Samaras, E. (2021, April 20). An eye-opening opportunity: Report from the 16th International Digital Curation Conference. Digital Preservation Coalition. https://www.dpconline.org/blog/idcc2021-esamaras
Samaras, E. (2020, November 20). Behind the screens: Preserving VFX records. Things I'm Fonds Of. http://www.thingsimfondsof.com/preserving-vfx-records/
Samaras, E. (2020, November 5). Lotus bloats: Preserving legacy email for good. Digital Preservation Coalition. https://www.dpconline.org/blog/bit-list-blog/blog-evanthia-samaras-wdpd
Samaras, E. (2019, October 14). The rate of change in the digital era is constant and ongoing: Interview with Simon Smith, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Archivoz. https://www.archivozmagazine.org/en/the-rate-of-change-in-the-digital-era-is-constant-and-ongoing-interview-with-simon-smith-national-film-and-sound-archive-of-australia/
Samaras, E. (2019, August 28). Central to our mission is the encouragement of a deeper understanding of Melbourne’s modern design history: Interview with RMIT Design Archives. Archivoz. https://www.archivozmagazine.org/en/central-to-our-mission-is-the-encouragement-of-a-deeper-understanding-of-melbournes-modern-design-history-interview-with-rmit-design-archives/
Samaras, E. (2019, July 31). With Map Warper we can turn pixels into real geographic information: Interview with Asa Letourneau, at Public Record Office Victoria. Archivoz. https://www.archivozmagazine.org/en/asa-letourneau-map-warper-public-record-office-victoria/
Samaras, E. (2019, May 13). An archivist walks (back) into a VFX company. Archivoz. https://www.archivozmagazine.org/en/an-archivist-walks-back-into-a-film-visual-effects-company/
Samaras, E. (2018, November 29). Dealing with computer viruses in digital collections. British Library Collection Care Blog. https://bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/generic_works/738cbe58-52a4-47b9-8831-80069a0eeb80
Samaras, E. (2018, October 4). Researching malware at the British Library. Digital Preservation Coalition. https://www.dpconline.org/blog/researching-malware-at-the-british-library