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.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Cham, Switzerland |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Number of pages | 167 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030795238 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783030795221 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Digital archive use reuse
- digitised archive materials
- Digitisation
- Audio visual collections in the digital age
- Digital archives
- Archiving Digital Culture
- Contemporary digital archive
- Kaldor Public Art Projects Digital Archive
- Archival Ethics
- Cultural significance of digital archives