Full Description
Materiality looms large in the world of archives, whether in storage, conservation, shape or materials of the records. Increasingly records are created digitally on a hitherto unimagined scale. How do born-digital records transform our understanding of the materiality of the archive? How do digital techniques provide new insights into the materiality of older archives? Archival Materialities in a Digital Age contains a series of authoritative studies by archivists and researchers who are grappling with these issues on a daily basis. The research presented in Archival Materialities in a Digital Age shows how these challenges are causing a reconsideration of archival theories and precepts while at the same time offering a huge range of opportunities to investigate archives in new and innovative ways.
Contents
Introduction
Conceptualising Digital Materiality in the Archive
1: Valerie Johnson: Exploring the Digital Analogue Archive
2: Alison Wiggins: Digital Materiality and Early Modern Archives
3: Katy Mair: Losing Touch? Changing Experiences of Archival Materiality
4: Alex Green and Tom Storrar: Intangible Materiality
5: Thorsten Ries: Digital History and Born-Digital Archives: Digital Forensic Dimensions
6: Lora Angelova: Patch and Repair: Evolving Understandings of Material in the Conservation Studio
7: Andrew Prescott: 7. Electric Ink and Arduinos: The Internet of Things and the Archive
Digital Explorations of Archival Materiality
8: Philippa Hoskin and Elizabeth New: Making an Impression: Digital Investigation of Palm Prints on Medieval Wax Seals
9: Lotte Fikkers and David Mills: The Ward 16 Manuscripts: Towards Digitisation without Disruption
10: Karl Burgess, Gerard Carruthers, Craig Lamont, James Newton, George Smith, and Ronnie Young: Robert Burns: Archival Aspects of the Printed and Manuscript Record in the Digital Age
11: Maryanne Dever, Jacqueline Lorber Kasunic, and Kate Sweetapple: Surfacing the Page: Experimental Visualisation and the Writing Process
12: Lorna Hughes: Co-creation and the Digital Archive: Unlocking Historic Archives and Records through New Approaches to Mass Digitisation
13: Juan Carlos Covelli Reyes: New Materiality and the Digital Artefact
Afterword
