Overview

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination. It also sheds light on born-digital, community-based archives, which have established themselves as new actors in the field. Based on anthropological fieldwork, the chapters in the book trace digital archives from technical advancements and postcolonial initiatives to programming alternatives, editing content, and active use of digital archives.

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Author:   Katja Müller
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805391432

ISBN 10:   1805391437
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   05 January 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Theorizing Digital Archives: Power, Access and New Order Chapter 2. Deciding for Digital Archives: Improvement through Collection Management Systems Chapter 3. Community-Based Digital Archives: Programming Alternatives Chapter 4. Creating and Curating Digital Archives: Horizontal and Vertical Structures Chapter 5. Using Digital Archives: Online Encounters, Stories of Impact and Postcolonial Agendas Chapter 6. Digital Archives’ Objects: Law and Tangibility Conclusion: Cultural Production in the Present with Reference to the Past and Directed at the Future Index

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“This is an interesting and timely manuscript… It is highly original and is a welcome contribution to the growing body of scholarship on digital archives and community participation, covering aspects of memory, history, power and politics.” • Graeme Were, University of Bristol

Author Information

Katja Müller conducts research into digitization, museum studies, material culture and visual anthropology, as well as energy and environmental humanities. She is Heisenberg-Professor at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences.

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