Overview
- Examines the digital archive by combining theoretical and practical approaches to the contemporary digital archive
- Builds on recent literature, while providing an original contribution to research on the digital archive
- Describes the process of constructing a digital archive as a specific case study
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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.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
John Potts is Professor of Media at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of A History of Charisma, The New Time and Space, Ideas in Time, Radio in Australia; and the editor of several books including The Future of Writing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Use and Reuse of the Digital Archive
Editors: John Potts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79523-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79522-1Published: 01 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79525-2Published: 02 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79523-8Published: 31 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 167
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Digital/New Media, Cultural Heritage, Library Science, Australasian Culture