Archives that Matter

Agostinho, Daniela; Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Katrine; Søilen, Karen Louise Grova

doi:10.7146/ntik.v7i2.118472

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“…Klein reveals Hemings’ ‘ghost’ by graphically mapping his every appearance. Agostinho, Dirckinck-Holmfeld, and Søilen (2019) similarly make visible the occluded documents of Denmark's slave trade. While not all omission and bias in cultural data is so political, it still matters greatly to the historian.…”

Section: Problems Of Trust 1: Omission and Biasmentioning

confidence: 94%

Can I believe what I see? Data visualization and trust in the humanities

Davis

Vane

Kräutli

2021

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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Questions of trust are increasingly important in relation to data and its use. The authors focus on humanities data and its visualization, through analysis of their own recent projects with museums, archives and libraries internationally. Their account connects the specifics of hands-on digital humanities work to larger epistemological questions. They discuss the sources of potential mistrust, and examine how different expectations and assumptions emerge depending on the use and user of the data; they offer a simple schema through which the implications may be traced. It is argued that vital issues of trust can be engaged with through design, which, rather than being conceived as a cosmetic finish, is seen as contributing insights and questions that affect the whole process. The article concludes with recommendations intended to be useful in both theory and practice.

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Section: Problems Of Trust 1: Omission and Biasmentioning

confidence: 94%

Can I believe what I see? Data visualization and trust in the humanities

Davis

Vane

Kräutli

2021

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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“…Furthermore, activist archival research stress the need to engage in radical or counterhegemonic public history-making activities, which entails an increased consciousness of the archive and archival work as a politically loaded and far-from-neutral practice. A good example of this is research and practice in colonial archives (Agostinho, Dirckinck-Holmfeld, and Søilen 2019). The notion that archives are sites of power and politics also explains how activist archival practice focuses on whistleblowing and openness.…”

Section: Lams As Activists? Dilemmas Between Neutrality and Taking A ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition

Rasmussen¹,

Rydbeck²,

Larsen³

2022

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In this anthology, top scholars researching libraries, archives, and museums (LAM) issues in Scandinavia explore pressing issues for contemporary LAMs.In recent decades, relations between libraries, archives, and museums have changed rapidly: collections have been digitized; books, documents, and objects have been mixed in new ways; and LAMs have picked up new tasks in response to external changes. Libraries now host makerspaces and literary workshops, archives fight climate change and support indigenous people, and museums are used as instruments for economic growth and urban planning. At first glance, the described changes may appear as a divergent development, where the LAMs are growing apart. However, this book demonstrates that the present transformation of LAMs is primarily a convergent development.Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners seeking to get on top of the LAM literature or the particularities of Scandinavian LAMs.

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Archival encounters: rethinking access and care in digital colonial archives

Agostinho

2019

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The year of 2017 marked the centennial of Denmark's sale of the former Danish West Indies to the United States of America, today the US Virgin Islands (USVI). The colonial archives fgured prominently during the year-long commemorations in Denmark, as the Danish National Archives digitized and publicly released the colonial records of the islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John. Drawing on cultural theories as well as debates in archival science, this article proposes the notion of 'archival encounter' to centre the ethical-epistemological challenges of digitization and to emphasize the intersected problematics raised by the encounter between the colonial, the archival and the digital. The article begins by revisiting the history of these archives in order to situate the digitization of these records within debates on provenance, custody and access. It then introduces some of

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Archives that Matter

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Can I believe what I see? Data visualization and trust in the humanities

Can I believe what I see? Data visualization and trust in the humanities

Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition

Archival encounters: rethinking access and care in digital colonial archives

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