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The information age has ushered in the biggest changes in human communication since the rise of printed text. The dynamic and ephemeral nature of electronic communication presents stark challenges to the fundamental principles of the archival practice. Join us for a look at how the tradition of collecting and creating archives is facing this paradigm shift and how the historical record will be shaped for the future.
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DO DIGITAL ARCHIVISTS DREAM OF ELECTRONIC RECORDS?
GRETCHEN M. GUEGUENSLab Speaker Series, February 13,
2013
What Are Archives?
Archives• Materials created or received by a person, family,
or organization, public or private, in the conduct of their affairs and preserved because of the enduring value contained in the information they contain or as evidence of the functions and responsibilities of their creator, especially those materials maintained using the principles of provenance, original order, and collective control; permanent records.
-Society of American Archivists
What do Archivists Do?
• Respect des fonds• Original order• Collective control
Theimer, Kate. 2012. “Archives in Context and as Context.” Journal of Digital Humanities. 1:2. http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-2/archives-in-context-and-as-context-by-kate-theimer/
Context• The document’s place in a larger information
landscape• The objective or social environment in which the
document existed• The mental or physical state and identity of the
creator of the document-Lee, Cal. (2011). A Framework for contextual information in digital collections. Journal of Documentation. 67:1. 95-143.
Wisdom
Knowledge
Information
Data
It’s in the
Archives
It’s Saved
It’s Written Down
Stuff Happens
DISRUPTIONS
It’s in the
ArchivesIt’s
Saved
It’s Written Down
Stuff Happens
DISRUPTIONS
It’s in the Archives
It’s Saved
Stuff Happens
It’s Written Down
Weingerger, David. (2012). Too Big to Know. New York: Basic Books.
What is “Digital”
Self-contextualizing
Searchable
Perfect Duplication
Dependencies
Transformative
What are Digital Archives?
Standardization• Archival Description Standards
o EAD and EAC-CPFo ISAD(G), ISAAR, ISDF, ISDIAHo DACS and RAD
• Conceptual Models
Capture and Analysis• Web archive crawl and analysis tools• Metadata extraction and creation• Algorithmic tools for fixity and identification
Redefining Discovery• How can archival materials be found and used
without losing context?
Re-Creations• Emulating Environments• “Enhanced Curation”- John, Jeremy Leighton. “The future of saving our past.” Nature 459, 775-776 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7248/full/459775a.html
Implications• Less Appraisal, more searching• Authority is waning, but so is bias, perhaps• Summary will be less important, but over-
generalization will not be as much of a drawback• Incomplete conversion to new paradigm
THANKS!Gretchen Gueguen
http://gretchengueguen.com
