Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Reflecting in 2014 on the transformative impact of digitisation on access to and the study of African collections, Terry Barringer and Marion Wallace argued that whilst there had been positive change, in some respects African collections were just as – if not more – hidden than ever. It is in this context that the Making African Connections project sought to make a digital archive whose ends were to investigate – and make investigable – our process of making a digital archive, what we did in the making rather than the outputs of that making. This article explores key aspects of that work – forgoing detail, foregrounding multi-vocality, collapsing hierarchies, digitising with care – and documents what we found as principles became actions, as product succumbed to process, as tensions and conflicts arose in the making of a ‘decolonial’ digital archive.
Source: Third Text
Author: James William Baker
Institution: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4408405555