Just published! The latest issue of the journal Public #57 From the journal’s website: “ARCHIVE/COUNTER-ARCHIVES advances conversations regarding the changing nature and political realities of audio and visual heritage in the twenty-first century. Bringing together artists, archivists, and researchers, this issue of PUBLIC argues that the re-thinking of audio-visual heritage preservation is ultimately strategic and political, especially […]
Category Archives: digitization
New book: Archival Futures
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New from Facet Publishing: Archival Futures edited by Caroline Brown “draws on the contributions of a range of international experts to consider the current archival landscape and imagine the archive of the future. Firmly rooted in current professional debate and scholarship, Archival Futures offers thought provoking and accessible chapters that aim to challenge and inspire archivists globally and […]
CFP: “Contemporary Literature and/as Archive”
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This call for papers is for a special issue of the journal LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory on the theme of “Contemporary Literature and/as Archive”. Questions relating to this cfp can be directed to both guest editors, Tom Chadwick (tom.chadwick@kuleuven.be) and Pieter Vermeulen (pieter.vermeulen@kuleuven.be). Recent technological and environmental developments have complicated literature’s role as a repository of the […]
Research in the Archival Multiverse: Download PDF
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This amazing edited collection brought together by Anne Gilliland, Sue McKemmish and Andrew Lau from Monash University Publishing is now available to be downloaded free as a PDF. Abstract: Over the past 15 years, the field of archival studies around the world has experienced unprecedented growth within the academy and within the profession, and archival […]
Future Past: researching archives in the digital age
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The IHR and British Records Association (BRA) invite you to attend this one day conference on Thursday 18 May 2017. This conference aims to promote the understanding and collaboration between archivists and researchers; explore challenges posed by digital access to collections, and improve methodologies (e.g. education/training for researchers in what information is available from online catalogues, […]
CFP: Summoning the Archive
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A Symposium on the Periodical, Printed Matter, and Digital Archiving at the Institute for Public Knowledge New York University 11-13 May 2017 Organizer: Meghan Forbes, NYU and UT-Austin Keynote Speaker: Jenna Freedman, Barnard The printing and distribution of the avant-garde magazine, illustrated weekly, and underground zine have developed in the twentieth century in […]
Deadline extended: From Dust to Dawn
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The deadline for submission of papers for “From Dust to Dawn. Archival Studies After the Archival Turn” at Uppsala University (15 – 17 November 2017) has been extended to 2 January 2017. Read the full call for papers here.
CFP Special issue: Digital Medieval Manuscript Cultures
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Archive Journal has published a call for papers for a special issue. Deadline: extended to 1 January 2017 In medieval manuscript studies, an important feature of the “digital turn” has been the creation of digital surrogates. Until recently, this activity has taken one of two forms: either the digitization of major categories of manuscripts (such […]
What is Digital Preservation?
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As part of Born Digital 2016 the State Library of New South Wales has published a post on the best strategies and practices to preserve a Library’s collection digitally. Here’s a short extract: “Digital preservation can be defined as: The coordinated and ongoing set of processes and activities that ensure long-term, error-free storage of digital information, with […]
CFP Archives of the Digital
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Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, Issue 8.1 Guest Editors: Hermann Rotermund, Wolfgang Hagen and Christian Herzog (Leuphana University Lüneburg) Deadline for the submission of full papers: 31 July 2016 The issue is scheduled for publication in Spring 2017. Digital media has initiated the transformation of archiving practices with implications for audio-visual archives, written archives […]
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