Use and reuse of the digital archive 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Potts, John

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030795238

Series

Subject(s)

• ARCHIVAL MATERIALS--DIGITIZATION
• ARCHIVES

Notes

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Abstract

This book examines the use and re-use of digital archives in a unique manner, by combining theoretical and practical approaches to the contemporary digital archive. The book brings together a range of writers - specialising in media and cultural studies, contemporary art and art history, digital and networked culture, library and museum studies - to explore the cultural impact of digital archives. Several of the essays describe the process of constructing a digital archive as a specific case study – in digitising a physical archive and designing a searchable digital database as the core of the digital archive. Other chapters explore the cultural significance of digital archives in more general theoretical terms. These considerations include: the specific properties of the digital archive; its similarities and differences to the traditional paper-based archive; the ethical decisions made in the design of an archive; and the potential for creative re-use of online archived materials.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xi, 167 p.)

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction
John Potts
PART ONE: MAKING A DIGITAL ARCHIVE
2. Making the Temporary Permanent: the Digital Archive
John Potts .-3. Digitisation & Imagination: Curating the Kaldor Public Art Projects Archive -Alice Desmond.-4. Public Art and Education in the Age of Digital Archives
Ross Harley
5. The (After) Life of the Archive
Scott East.-6. Hauntology: the Archive as Past and Future
Nicole Anderson
PART TWO: THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE AND ITS EFFECTS
7. Preservation/Access/Reuse
audio visual collections in the digital age
Katrina Sedgwick
8. Archival Ethics after Benjamin
Sean Cubitt
9. Temporary Library, Archiving Digital Culture
Alessandro Ludovico
10. The Romance of Form
Julia Mant
11. Conclusions: Use & Re-Use
John Potts

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00595/22	027 Use	Online !	Available