Year: 2022
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Genuinely digital archival materials require a new set of analytical and critical approaches. They display seemingly paradoxical characteristics, some of which they share with conventional sources, but some of which differ significantly from them. In addition to their content, born-digital sources have certain formal properties and are characterized by the materiality of the respective processing and storage media. Using the example of a database system from the Vietnam War, the article discusses the specific requirements but also the potentials of an analysis of historical data processing and original digital sources, taking into account their material properties and the socio-technical practice of their collection, processing and storage
Source: De Gruyter eBooks
Author: Moritz Feichtinger
Institution: Cambridge University Press
Language: German
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4292960478