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OverviewWe are now entering a world of electronic communications where an increasing amount of contemporary information is created and retained only in electronic form. How will such unstable flows of information be preserved for future historians? Will the future have a past? Will the history of our contemporary world be lost to our descendants? This book examines the implications of this revolution for historical research. Historians are used to handling paper and parchment records in archives. These are actual pieces of correspondence which passed between historical actors. They are also relatively stable artefacts which can be preserved easily. Two factors introduced by the electronic revolution threaten the existence of paper archives: the dissociation between information content and the media by which it is transmitted ruptures the solidity of the archival object. The ability to store electronic information anywhere and access it remotely via networks could make the central paper archive redundant. Experts from the fields of information management and technology, data archiving, library science, as well as historians, consider the issues raised in depth. The authors also place emphasis on European developments. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Edward HiggsPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Clarendon Press Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780198236344ISBN 10: 0198236344 Pages: 363 Publication Date: 01 May 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Part 1 The historian in the electronic age: R.J. Morris, electronic documents and the history of the late-20th century black holes or warehouses - what do historians really want?; Ronald Zweig, beyond content - electronic fingerprints and the use of documents; Daniel I. Greenstein, electronic information resources and historians - a consumer's view; Martin Campbell-Kelly, information in the business enterprise; Tatyana Moiseenko, Russian records - an archive system under pressure in the information age. Part 2 Information creation and capture: Seamus Ross, the expanding world of electronic information and the past's future; Helen Simpson, the management of electronic information resources in a corporate environment; Edward Higgs, historians, archivists, and electronic record keeping in U.K. government; Jean Samuel, electronic mail - information systems exchange of information loss; Martin Gardner, secondary use of computerized patient records - opportunities and problems. Part 3 Preservation and dissemination - theory: Kevin Schurer, information technology and the implications for the study of history in the future; W. Boyd Rayward - electronic information and the functional integration of libraries, museums, and archives; Denise Lievesley - increasing the value of data; Jeffrey D. Morelli, defining electronic records - problems of terminology; Edward Higgs, management, freedom, and history - the role of tomorrow's electronic archives. Part 4 The practice of preservation from the European perspective: Michael Wettengel, German unification and electronic records - the example of the ""Kaderdatenspeicher""; the British Library and the challenge of electronic media - a view from the perspective of special collections, Alice Prochaska; Doron Swade, collecting software - preserving information in an object-centred culture; Lynne Brindley, research library directions in the 1990s; Hans-Jorgen Marker, data conservation at a traditional data archive; Peter Doorn, electronic records and historians - the case of the Netherlands; Claes Granstrom, Swedish society and electronic data; Hans Hofman, European developments - towards a united but distributed archives of Europe?"ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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