Cultivating archives: meanings and identities
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| Publication date | 2012 |
| Journal | Archival science |
| Volume | Issue number | 12 | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 19-33 |
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| 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 |
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-011-9142-5
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