This chapter uses Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive to consider the ways that collaborative, public-facing digital humanities initiatives can conflict with institutional conventions and methods of evaluating academic labor. Collaborative work creates challenges as well as opportunities for its organizers and laborers. The particular…[Read more]

Que faire du corpus des œuvres d’un artiste lorsque celui-ci disparaît rapidement et prématurément alors qu’il est en plein développement de son art et de sa pensée? Comment est-ce qu’un artiste prépare/contrôle la diffusion et l’interprétation de son œuvre au-delà de sa mort ? Quel est la responsabilité des proches et le degré d’interventio…[Read more]

Slides accompanying a panel representing the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Frankenstein project to build a digital scholarly variorum edition that updates, bridges, and intersects multiple divergent editions of Frankenstein, including the manuscript notebook drafts of 1816, the 1818, 1823, and 1831 print editions, as well as the handwritten notes in the…[Read more]

Ideas and materials for building a web portal for archival information about Romagna, a historical subregion of Italy.

Auf Spurensuche im Archiv. Ein Arbeitsbericht Das Projekt Digital Formalism will Dziga Vertovs formale Verfahren untersuchen, und sie vor dem Hintergrund historischer Debatten über die sogenannte formale Methode positionieren. Den Korpus der Untersuchung bildet die Vertov-Samm-lung im Österreichischen Filmmuseum (ÖFM) – die dort konservierten Film…[Read more]

This essay explores the impact of digitized and born-digital special collections on teaching, learning, and research, and, through institutional case studies, considers the variety of collaborative opportunities made possible by the digitization of special collections.

This essay explores the impact of digitized and born-digital special collections on teaching, learning, and research, and, through institutional case studies, considers the variety of collaborative opportunities made possible by the digitization of special collections.

The open access movement has taken a strong hold within cultural heritage institutions, as large-scale digitization efforts are becoming increasingly popular in most libraries, museums, and archives. These initiatives have had a particular effect on the status of rare and unique materials through the provision of high-quality images and…[Read more]

This paper engages with the existing body of archival literature that addresses what has been termed “documentary art” in order to address questions regarding the treatment of visual materials in archival practice and theory. It will also borrow and apply theories from the disciplines of material culture studies and art history in order to for…[Read more]

Through an engagement with theory from the fields of art history, anthropology, and sociology, this article examines the archival existence of medieval manuscripts and facilitates an understanding of archival practice and its effects on user experience from the perspective of the researcher, rather than from that of the archivist or information…[Read more]

Through a discussion of the materiality of photographic documents and the inherent qualities of digital objects, this article examines the viability of digitization as a method of archival photographic preservation. By exploring notions of surrogacy, originality, and aura, the author presents and deconstructs the popular argument that digital…[Read more]

This work presents a brief overview on the history of Web archiving projects in some English speaking countries, paying particular attention to the development and main problems faced by the UK Web Archive Consortium (UKWAC) and UK Web Archive partnership in Britain. It highlights, particularly, the changeable nature of Web pages through constant…[Read more]

This dissertation describes the current pressures on archive funding and their historical reliance on non-earned sources of funds. It explores the different ways in which archives can generate income and their respective success factors. In particular, it considers the role of digitisation and how archives might organise themselves to maximise the…[Read more]

A group editorial from the Editorial Board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.

The Monty Hyams Archive stands as an important source of information history. This project seeks to organise and investigate the contents of the Archive while providing information on standards application to the care of the Archive. Through the research methodologies of literary warrant analysis, documentary analysis, and historical research,…[Read more]

In his 1992 essay Eftermaele: ‘That which will be said afterwards’ Eugenio Barba states that ‘[i]n the age of electronic memory, of films, and of reproducibility … performance … defines itself through the work that living memory, which is not museum but metamorphosis, is obliged to do’ (78). His mention of memory is an acknowledgement of…[Read more]

Presentation from the MARAC conference in Newark, NJ on April 20–22, 2017. Session 6: You Established a Social Media Presence, What’s Next?

This presentation offers an overview of social media outreach at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. A particular focus is placed on the strategies, content, and workflow of the Othmer Library’s Tumblr, Othmeralia.

The late nineteenth century was a crucial moment in Japan, driven by new conceptions of authorship and literary narratives. An influential world of collecting and compilation gave birth to those changes, but its workings are still poorly understood. By showing how compilers assembled the 1894 Kōtei Saikaku zenshū (The Edited Complete Works of Sa…[Read more]

The MADDLAIN project aims to analyse the behaviour and the needs of different audiences with regard to digital access to the collections offered by the CegeSoma, the Royal Library of Belgium and the State Archives of Belgium. In the scope of this project, I presented some of the results of the qualitative survey conducted with professional…[Read more]

Este artículo establece el carácter fundador de Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez en la constitución del canon de la literatura en Colombia. Se concluye que el ensayo “Satisfacción a un juicio poco exacto sobre la literatura y buen gusto, antiguo y actual, de los naturales de la ciudad de Santafé de Bogotá” (1792) constituye el primer antecedent…[Read more]