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An ecologically just future for personal digital heritage: three guiding statements

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09481-1

Marije Miedema, Susan Aasman, Anne Beaulieu, Sabrina Sauer

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Addressing the free-rider problem in collectively built online archives

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09480-2

Jinfang Niu

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Inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and inappropriateness: examining the representation of Chinese students in university archives with radical empathy

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09479-9

Ruohua Han, Yingying Han

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The provenance of trans/gender: on the subject’s willful disappearance from the record

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-02-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09477-x

L. Wynholds

{"title":"The provenance of trans/gender: on the subject’s willful disappearance from the record","authors":"L. Wynholds","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09477-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09477-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In recent years, health and government information systems have made gender variance more visible and countable in the records. However, being counted has created novel forms of vulnerability for transgender and gender-diverse populations. This paper explores the complexity of records in exposing vulnerabilities of marginalization, illustrating how recordkeeping practices may contribute to erasure and stigma and reproduce systems of social disenfranchisement. The paper introduces the concept of ‘hostile recordkeeping practices’ as a critical analytical lens to articulate observations of marginalization in recordkeeping environments, to discuss indicators of bias, and to develop mechanisms for surfacing issues of trauma, violence, stigma, and repair. Using examples from the published literature, the paper discusses the importance of understanding social interactions which exacerbate marginalization within recordkeeping practices. Based on a case study, the paper argues that the dangers trans and gender-diverse individuals routinely encounter in recordkeeping practices necessitate additional analytical inquiry into hostile recordkeeping practices. The case study contributes to discussions of ethics of care for records for marginalized populations and includes interactional considerations, ethical considerations and historical contexts embedded in recordkeeping systems. The paper closes with an argument for the need to adapt existing recordkeeping practices to safeguard against hostile uses, systemic bias and structural violence. Future archival and medical discourses alike need to engage with the situation(s) of creation, the acts of recording, and, most importantly, personal agency in the negotiations of allowable uses for the records for marginalized populations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09477-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Breaking the boxes: archival praxes and dignity in messiness 打破盒子：档案实践与混乱中的尊严

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09474-0

Lingyu Wang

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“Until dignity becomes customary” archiving the #28A strike in Colombia

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09470-w

Marta Lucía Giraldo, Sandra Arenas, Nicolás Yepes, Andrés Sáenz, Duan Ramirez

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“Provenance informing restitution: the case of Isleta paintings”

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09476-y

Peter Botticelli

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Permission to archive: curating and contesting Palestinian history

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09478-w

Anne Irfan, Jo Kelcey

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Conceptualizing aggregate-level description in web archives

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-025-09475-z

Emily Maemura

{"title":"Conceptualizing aggregate-level description in web archives","authors":"Emily Maemura","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09475-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09475-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Web archives collections are often excluded from archival science discussions, and their description instead focuses on bibliographic approaches to item-level metadata. This article argues that web archives are best understood using approaches of archival description, focusing on a case study of the Danish Netarchive, a long-running national web archive. By capturing and preserving web sites for the purposes of legal deposit, the Netarchive creates and maintains historical records of the web. Examining the Netarchive’s systems and activities through the lens of archival representation, this article develops a typology of representational artifacts that support this work, including the use of database entities, wiki documentation, classification and management via Jira issues, and codes, identifiers, and structures embedded in network protocols themselves. The analysis considers how meaningful aggregations can be understood via these representational schemes, systems and architectures, and how the nature of born-networked records challenges concepts of singular, hierarchical orderings of records aggregations. The closing discussion proposes new modes of description that address these multiple interconnected systems, and raises questions about what this might mean for aggregate-level description in the context of digital and born-networked records more broadly.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09475-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Divergence and dialogue: analyzing the linguistic turn of the archive in digital humanities research 分歧与对话：数字人文研究中档案的语言转向分析

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-01-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09473-7

Jiaqing Long, Viviane Frings‑Hessami, Huiling Feng

{"title":"Divergence and dialogue: analyzing the linguistic turn of the archive in digital humanities research","authors":"Jiaqing Long, Viviane Frings‑Hessami, Huiling Feng","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09473-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09473-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the past two decades, many digital humanities projects have presented themselves as various forms of digital archives, and the term ‘archive’ has been used frequently by many digital humanists, leading to an expanded but also eroded concept of the archive. This phenomenon, described as the linguistic turn of the archive, has sparked intense debates in both the digital humanities and archival science research communities. The conceptual divergence between the concept of the archive in archival science and in digital humanities can lead to misunderstandings and academic exchange gaps on both sides. To bridge this divide, we conducted research by selecting all 58 cases related to archives from the International Digital Humanities Awards (2012–2023). This study draws on the socio-contextual analysis and discourse–historical analysis framework to code and analyze the characteristics of the linguistic turn. By extracting four layers ‘concept-tool-cognition-scenario’ from existing research, we innovatively proposed a framework suitable for analyzing archival terminologies within the contexts of different projects. Through analysis, we identified the following four turning features: (a) an expansion of the traditional archival terminology, i.e., many digital resources are referred to as ‘digital archive’; (b) the application of archival theories, principles, and tools for resource preservation; (c) the embedding of archival cognition in the processes of digital humanities projects; and (d) the integration of archives into broader and more socially oriented digital scenarios. This paper suggests that archivists and digital humanities researchers need to increase the dialogue between the two disciplines to better facilitate an archival paradigm shift and ensure the sustainability of digital humanities research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142912802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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