Cultivating archives: meanings and identities

Authors
Publication date 2012
Journal Archival science
Volume | Issue number 12 | 1
Pages (from-to) 19-33
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
Abstract By cultivating archives through successive activations, people and communities define their identities. In these activations, the meanings of archives are constructed and reconstructed. Archives are not a static artifact imbued with the record creator’s voice alone, but a dynamic process involving an infinite number of stakeholders over time and space. Thus, archives are never closed, but open into the future. Furthermore, digital archives are always in a state of becoming, being created and recreated by technologies of migration and reconstruction.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-011-9142-5
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