The Scent of the Digital Archive
| Autor: | C. Jeurgens |
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| Přispěvatelé: | History |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, Vol 128, Iss 4, Pp 30-54 (2013) BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, Vol 128, Iss 4 (2013) Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 128(4), 30-54. Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap |
| ISSN: | 2211-2898 0165-0505 |
| Popis: | Archival infrastructure is changing at a rapid pace as a consequence of digitisation. The effort to digitise analogue collections seems to have benefits only for researchers. Still, only a fraction of analogue archive material is currently available in digital form. This article raises some of the problematic aspects about the practice of digitising analogue collections and their consequences for historical research. The dilemmas that confront archivists and historians are not easy to resolve: the digitisation of analogue collections is leading to two costly and co-existing infrastructures, while archival collections that are not digitised risk becoming marginalised. This article is part of the special issue 'Digital History'. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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