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Community archives are often viewed as repositories of knowledge and experience that are nevertheless somehow remote from the taxpayers who often fund them. However, the idea of an archive has more recently been popularized by digital resources that allow access to established archives and also permit users to create archives of their own. This book examines the changing relationship between citizens and their notions of archives. The growing number of archives, and the evolving practices associated with collecting and curating, mean that we are now in the process of remaking the very idea of the archive. Communities have been at the heart of this exciting work and their experiences are both central to our understanding of this new terrain and in challenging the traditional histories behind the control of knowledge and power.
Community archives are often viewed as repositories of knowledge and experience that are nevertheless somehow remote from the taxpayers who often fund them. However, the idea of an archive has more recently been popularized by digital resources that allow access to established archives and also permit users to create archives of their own. This book examines the changing relationship between citizens and their notions of archives. The growing number of archives, and the evolving practices associated with collecting and curating, mean that we are now in the process of remaking the very idea of the archive. Communities have been at the heart of this exciting work and their experiences are both central to our understanding of this new terrain and in challenging the traditional histories behind the control of knowledge and power.
Preface;
Introductory Chapter: Remaking the Archive;
Section 1: Storytelling, Co-curation and Community Archives;
Chapter 1: New Island Stories: Heritage, Archives and the Digital
Environment as a basis for Community Regeneration;
Chapter 2: Speaking through Making: living archives, embodied
value;
Chapter 3: BBC Pebble Mill: Issues around collaborative community
online archives – A case study of the http://pebblemill.org
project;
Chapter 4: Memories on film: Public archive images and
participatory film?making with people with dementia;
Chapter 5: Doing-It-Together: Co-creating popular music history in
the online environment;
Section 2: Citizen Archives and the Institution;
Chapter 6: Museums and Communities in the Virtual Age: From
Museological Use to Digital Heritage Engagement?;
Chapter 7: Enhancing museum visits through the creation of data
visualisation to support informed choices and the recording and
sharing of experience;
Chapter 8: Letter to an Unknown Soldier;
Chapter 9: Earth in Vision and the Digital Citizen: Working
Upstream of Digital and Broadcast Archive Developments;
Chapter 10: Institutional collaboration in the creation of digital
linguistic resources: the case of the British Telecom
Correspondence Corpus;
Chapter 11: Archiving art school atmosphere: digital collecting,
cultural heritage practice and non-materiality;
Section 3: Disruptive and Counter Voices: The Community Turn;
Chapter 12: Anti-Institutional Mental Health Archives: Tensions,
Challenges and Reward.;
Chapter 13: ‘Weapons in the struggle’ Independent radical
archives.;
Chapter 14: Silver hair, silver tongues, silver screen:
recollection, reflection and representation through digital
storytelling with older people;
Chapter 15: Prejudice and Pride: Archiving ‘wibbly-wobbly
timey-wimey’ LGBT histories;
Chapter 16: Locating the Black Archive;
Chapter 17: Archive, Museum, Library, In/tangible Heritage, Web:
Ways of being inclusive and alive.;
Chapter 18: Archive Utopias: Linking collaborative histories to
local decision-making;
Concluding Chapter: The Archive in a World of Datafication.
Simon Popple is Director of Impact and a Senior Lecturer in Photography and Digital Culture at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds.
Andrew Prescott is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow.
Daniel H. Mutibwa is Assistant Professor in Creative Industries and Digital Culture at the University of Nottingham, UK Campus.
"A testament to the vibrancy, depth, and diversity of collaborative research practices involving archives and archiving in the UK. It examines the challenges of collaboration, but even handedly celebrates the many benefits afforded by such modes of work." Richard Clay, Newcastle University
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