Use and Reuse of the Digital Archive

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.

Examines the digital archive by combining theoretical and practical approaches to the contemporary digital archive Builds on recent literature, while providing an original contribution to research on the digital archive Describes the process of constructing a digital archive as a specific case study

Auteur

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.

Contenu

1. Introduction - John Potts.- PART 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. <p