The Metadata of a Digital Archive - Lingering Questions
Applicable
to the process of digitizing archival archival material are the issues
of materiality and of enactment. Making digital the contents of Brown's
archival materials removes a sense of their materiality in the archive.
In a sense my manipulation of the scanned images contributes to this
effect. I heightened the contrast and cropped the pictures to make them
easier to read. If I go on to provide a transcription of the written
material, I am also changing the way we encounter these media:
facilitating immersion, perhaps? As mentioned above, I wonder about the
process of enactment. How can I best draw attention to the process of
digitization as a transformation of the archival experience?
The Metadata of a Digital Archive
Struggling with the Fields
to the process of digitizing archival archival material are the issues
of materiality and of enactment. Making digital the contents of Brown's
archival materials removes a sense of their materiality in the archive.
In a sense my manipulation of the scanned images contributes to this
effect. I heightened the contrast and cropped the pictures to make them
easier to read. If I go on to provide a transcription of the written
material, I am also changing the way we encounter these media:
facilitating immersion, perhaps? As mentioned above, I wonder about the
process of enactment. How can I best draw attention to the process of
digitization as a transformation of the archival experience?
The Metadata of a Digital Archive
Struggling with the Fields
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