Archival Materialities in a Digital Age [Hardcover]

Materiality looms large in the world of archives in storage, conservation, and shape or materials of the records. How does this materiality change in the digital age? The way digital techniques and materialities transform our engagement with archives is highlighted and explored throughoutArchival Materialities in a Digital Age.

Materiality looms large in the world of archives, whether in storage, conservation, shape or materials of the records. Increasingly records are created digitally on a hitherto unimagined scale. How do born-digital records transform our understanding of the materiality of the archive? How do digital techniques provide new insights into the materiality of older archives?Archival Materialities in a Digital Agecontains a series of authoritative studies by archivists and researchers who are grappling with these issues on a daily basis. The research presented inArchival Materialities in a Digital Ageshows how these challenges are causing a reconsideration of archival theories and precepts while at the same time offering a huge range of opportunities to investigate archives in new and innovative ways.Eirini Goudarouli,Head of Research, The National Archives, UK, Andrew Prescott,Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow

Eirini Goudarouli is Head of Research at The National Archives, UK, where she leads an interdisciplinary team of experts. She has extensive experience in leading research and engagement programmes and in building impactful research collaborations and networks. Her passion is to drive innovation that enables new ideas for broadening our current understanding of collections and their discoverability through ground-breaking research, safe and responsible use of emerging technologies, interdisciplinary collaborations and knowledge-exchange initiatives. Eirini has published extensively, especially within the space of Digital Cultural Heritage. Recent publications inclul+