The Missing Voice: Archivists and Infrastructures for Humanities Research.
This article offers a critique of the transfer of a technological-scientific paradigm of research infrastructure to the field of the humanities. This critique is informed by our experience of formulating user requirements for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project, and especia...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities Vol. 7; no. 1/2; pp. 128 - 147 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Mar2013
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=91734918&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 91734918 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 17538548 2QD7 jtl: International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities issn: 17538548 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2013 vid: 7 iid: 1/2 pid: 2327 pub: Edinburgh University Press artinfo: ui: 91734918 10.3366/ijhac.2013.0085 ppf: 128 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 108KB tig: atl: The Missing Voice: Archivists and Infrastructures for Humanities Research. aug: au: Speck, Reto Links, Petra su: Humanities research Holocaust, 1939-1945 Archivists Archival research Archival materials Archival resources Digital humanities sug: subj: Humanities research Holocaust, 1939-1945 Archivists Archival research Archival materials Archival resources Digital humanities keyword: archival research archivists and archives inter-mediation User requirements ab: This article offers a critique of the transfer of a technological-scientific paradigm of research infrastructure to the field of the humanities. This critique is informed by our experience of formulating user requirements for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project, and especially by a series of interviews we undertook with user-facing archivists working at EHRI partner institutions. We argue that the archival voices we recovered during these interviews articulate a range of concerns that clash with some of the major assumptions which frame current discussions about research infrastructure. In particular, we demonstrate that archival research is currently heavily mediated by archivists. And yet, inter-mediation is a theme that is insufficiently explored in recent theorising about research infrastructure. Contextualising our findings within some recent trends in archival science, we show that an infrastructure such as the EHRI must be build around the complex relationship between scholar, archivist and archive. We conclude by indicating how building infrastructures for humanities research may enable us to fruitfully re-conceptualise and re-energise this relationship by transposing it from the physical world to digital environments. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities is the property of Edinburgh University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities holder: Edinburgh University Press dt: @attributes: year: 2013 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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