User Engagement with Digital Archives for Research and Teaching: A Case Study of Emblematica Online

Green, Harriett; Lampron, Patricia

doi:10.1353/pla.2017.0045

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“…Instead, there is space to include creative, engaging storytelling that is more chronosophic than chronologic because it ensures the presence of an audience invested in those professional memories. We already see such creative archiving today, particularly in subject and federated portals (Shenton, 2009; Smith, 2017), cross-institutional reunification efforts (Green and Lampron, 2017) that adopt such a premise, and other applications of reparative or rebellious principles to address collecting (Carpio, 2020; Crowe, 2019; Sheffield, 2020; Sutherland, 2019). Contemporary historiography might otherwise forget, unfortunately, the contributions made by successive archivists and preservation librarians to the creation of memory.…”

Section: Discussion: Between Shifts: Considering Chronosophy To Mitig...mentioning

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Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History

Buchanan

2022

Memory Studies

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Over two decades in mid-century America, the professional approach to sites endangered by post-war construction and development projects was to excavate and “save the data” from certain loss. Archeologists led such salvage efforts from 1945 to 1970, first meeting the increased demand for their labor and skills. Then, in seeing the permanence of destruction, they shifted by extending their concept of safe preservation into the future: an early conservationist archeology. One broad impact of the River Basin Surveys was in memorializing tribal histories and relationships to the land environment by the recovery of large swaths of biological, ecological, palynological, and geological data from excavations coordinated from branch offices in Nebraska, Oregon, California, Washington, D.C., and Texas. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Texas professor E. Mott Davis created a meticulous record of such archeological practices through a film series which captures that shift from the perspective of one of its practitioners. Spadework for History (1964), subtitled “Salvaging American History,” seeks to document the country’s anthropological archeology through a pioneering academic collaboration between film and archeology. Weighing scholarship on the production of archives—including an awakening to power in their production of history—this article considers the power of film in creating a memory text. In retelling Davis’s contribution, evidence from the films’ reception and memory studies perspectives together expand the temporal framework available to support further audiovisual collection-based analyses of professional work.

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Section: Discussion: Between Shifts: Considering Chronosophy To Mitig...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History

Buchanan

2022

Memory Studies

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“…Many studies take a broad overview and depend on the willingness of participants to actively engage and respond to data collection. Typically, these participants hold positive views of their experience, which is why they are so willing to interact (Green et al, 2015). A recent Jisc-sponsored study recognized this limitation in its findings as it drew from users ‘selected for their experience with and creativity in using the resources’ (Meyer and Eccles, 2016: 33).…”

Section: ‘Confronting the Digital’ In The Existing Literaturementioning

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“…Vasileiou et al (2012) suggest that the traditional role that academic libraries played – selecting books, organizing collections and making them available to learners, scholars and researchers – would alleviate concerns and instil trust if applied to the selection and acquisition of digital archival material. Green and Lampron (2017: 772) conclude that library professionals’ extensive knowledge and experience makes greater integrative partnerships between scholars and librarians ‘more important than ever’.…”

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“…This presented a few benefits. Ironically, by narrowing its focus to one department in one institution, this study provided a broader cross section of academic and library opinion, as response was not dictated by a willingness to engage, but by proactive effort from the researcher (Green and Lampron, 2017). The study can offer an outline for determining how people perceive their relationship with digital information and inform information scientists and archivists in their attempts to tailor material to users in the future.…”

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Defending the digital: Awareness of digital selectivity in historical research practice

Coburn

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Existing research offers fearful conclusions on the use of online archival collections, finding that historians ignore and overlook the limitations of digital sources. However, an attitudinal case study at Newcastle University contradicts this consensus. This article discusses this study’s detailed findings, determining that historians and library professionals demonstrate abundant and nuanced awareness of issues relating to ‘digital selectivity’. Nevertheless, the interviewees suggested that this does not radically undermine their practice. The study also revealed compelling aspects of digital selectivity not currently observed in existing research, including the effects of career stage and the importance of cooperation with library professionals. While the existing literature provides appropriate and prudent concerns, it lacks tangible evidence pointing to a widespread phenomenon of poor digital historical practice. The article closes by recommending further research into historians’ digital information-seeking behaviour, but argues that standardized metadata practices must come first. Limitations, including the absence of rigorous quantitative data, must be resolved before a fuller appreciation for digital historical practice is developed.

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“…9 They may also help us understand how technologies are increasingly becoming part of disciplinary practices. 10 Whilst previous user research in Digital Humanities concentrates on assessing how and why Digital Humanities benefits from studies into user needs and behaviour 11 -on user requirement research 12 and on participatory design research 13 -our article proposes to add to this body of research by presenting insights of a cross-disciplinary user study that involves researchers studying AV materials, in an iterative co-creative design process 14 set to fine-tune and further develop a digital tool that supports audio-visual research through exploratory search. We employed a user-centred design methodology 15 to analyse researchers' engagement when using exploratory search, and more specifically, how users and technologies co-construct meaning and meaning-making practices.…”

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The Researcher as Storyteller

Hagedoorn

Sauer

2018

VIEW Journal

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This article offers a first exploratory critique of digital tools' socio-technical affordances in terms of support for narrative creation by media researchers. More specifically, we reflect on narrative creation processes of research, writing and story composition by Media Studies and Humanities scholars, as well as media professionals, working with crossmedia and audio-visual sources, and the pivotal ways in which digital tools inform these processes of search and storytelling. Our study proposes to add to the existing body of user-centred Digital Humanities research by presenting the insights of a cross-disciplinary user study. This involves, broadly speaking, researchers studying audio-visual materials in a co-creative design process, set to fine-tune and further develop a digital tool (technically based on linked open data) that supports audio-visual research through exploratory search. This article focuses on how 89 researchers – in both academic and professional research settings – use digital search technologies in their daily work practices to discover and explore (crossmedia, digital) audio-visual archival sources, especially when studying mediated and historical events. We focus on three user types, (1) Media Studies researchers; (2) Humanities researchers that use digitized audio-visual materials as a source for research, and (3) media professionals who need to retrieve materials for audio-visual text productions, including journalists, television/image researchers, documentalists, documentary filmmakers, digital storytellers, and media innovation experts. Our study primarily provides insights into the search, retrieval and narrative creation practices of these user groups. A user study such as this which combines different qualitative methods (focus groups with co-creative design sessions, research diaries, questionnaires), first, affords fine-grained insights. Second, it demonstrates the relevance of closely considering practices and mechanisms conditioning narrative creation, including self-reflexive approaches. Third and finally, it informs conclusions about the role of digital tools in meaning-creation processes when working with audio-visual sources, and where interaction is pivotal.

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User Engagement with Digital Archives for Research and Teaching: A Case Study of Emblematica Online

Cited by 5 publications

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Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History

Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History

Defending the digital: Awareness of digital selectivity in historical research practice

The Researcher as Storyteller

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