Archival materialities in a digital age

Abstract

"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."-- Back cover.

Contents

Introduction / Eirini Goudarouli and Andrew Prescott -- Part I: Conceptualising Digital Materiality in the Archive. Exploring the digital analogue archive / Valerie Johnson -- Digital materiality and early modern archives / Alison Wiggins -- Losing touch? : changing experiences of archival materiality / Katy Mair -- Intangible materiality / Alex Green and Tom Storrar -- Digital history and born-digital archives: digital forensic dimensions / Thorsten Ries -- Patch and repair: evolving understandings of materiality in an archival conservation studio / Lora V. Angelova -- Electric ink and arduinos: the internet of things and the archive / Andrew Prescott -- Part II: Digital Explorations of Archival Materiality. Making an impression: digital investigation of palm prints on medieval wax seals / Philippa Hoskin and Elizabeth A. New -- The WARD 16 manuscripts: towards digitisation without disruption / Lotte Fikkers and David Mills -- Robert Burns: archival aspects of the printed and manuscript record in the digital age / Karl Burgess, Gerard Carruthers, Craig Lamont, James Newton, George Smith and Ronnie Young -- Surfacing the page: experimental visualisation and the writing process / Maryanne Dever, Jacqueline Lorber Kasunic and Kate Sweetapple -- Co-creation and the digital archive: unlocking historic archives and records through new approaches to mass digitisation / Lorna M. Hughes -- New materiality and the digital artefact / Juan Covelli -- Afterword / Jon Rogers.