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Use and Reuse of the Digital Archive

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Editors:
  1. John Potts

    1. Department of Media, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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  • 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

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • John Potts
    Pages 1-10

  3. Making a Digital Archive

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Making the Temporary Permanent: The Digital Archive

      • John Potts
      Pages 13-32

    3. Digitisation & Imagination: Curating the Kaldor Public Art Projects Archive

      • Alice Desmond
      Pages 33-47

    4. Public Art and Education in the Age of Digital Archives

      • Ross Rudesch Harley
      Pages 49-72

    5. The (After) Life of the Archive

      • Scott East
      Pages 73-86

  4. The Digital Archive and Its Effects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. The Romance of Form

      • Julia Mant
      Pages 89-104

    3. Hauntology: The Archive as Past and Future

      • Nicole Anderson
      Pages 105-113

    4. Anthropocene Archival Ethics

      • Sean Cubitt
      Pages 115-128

    5. Temporary Library, Archiving Digital Culture

      • Alessandro Ludovico
      Pages 129-141

    6. Preservation/Access/Reuse—Audio Visual Collections in the Digital Age

      • Katrina Sedgwick
      Pages 143-158

    7. Conclusions: Use & Re-Use

      • John Potts
      Pages 159-162

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 163-167
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Media, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    John Potts

About the editor

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.

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