Overview

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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Author:   John Potts
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.243kg
ISBN:  

9783030795252

ISBN 10:   303079525
Pages:   167
Publication Date:   02 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction - John PottsPART ONE: MAKING A DIGITAL ARCHIVE 2. Making the Temporary Permanent: the Digital Archive - John Potts  3. Digitisation & Imagination: Curating the Kaldor Public Art Projects Archive  -Alice Desmond 4. Public Art and Education in the Age of Digital Archives - Ross Harley 5. The (After) Life of the Archive -  Scott East  6. Hauntology: the Archive as Past and Future - Nicole Anderson PART TWO: THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE AND ITS EFFECTS 7. Preservation/Access/Reuse - audio visual collections in the digital age - Katrina Sedgwick  8. Archival Ethics after Benjamin - Sean Cubitt   9. Temporary Library, Archiving Digital Culture - Alessandro Ludovico 10. The Romance of Form - Julia Mant 11. Conclusions: Use & Re-Use - John Potts

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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.

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