#MeToo in Sweden: Museum Collections, Digital Archiving and Hashtag Visuality
Digital Humanities
Uimonen discusses the Nordic Museum in Stockholm’s #MeToo collection and the public submissions to the collection. It also “analyses the museum’s rationale for collecting what is considered to be difficult cultural heritage.” Unlike most archives, it does not contain images. The article proposes a new visuality in digital archiving: “hashtag visuality.” The article claims it is visual representation of social media. The author argues that the amount this visuality for the hashtag occurs in Sweden is a statement regarding sexism and violence in a country that is believed to be feminist. The author states hashtag visuality has made an impact on how this topic is discussed and acted upon and that it has become a movement.
I think this journal’s discussion of hashtags impact on archiving and movements is important to consider for archiving purposes. It not only directly mentions archiving, but also how these hashtags start movements that need archiving work to be done. I liked how it considered a new form of visuality and how that impacts community archiving. I believe this article is different than other data in the archive and considers how social media is shaping human experience and movements. I think this is unique because older archiving would never consider how hashtags can influence the field.
Uimonen, Paula
Informa UK Limited
2019-07-17
Alexis Cosio
Online Journal
ISSN 0014-1844
Virtual Preservation of Contemporary Architectural Heritage in Developing Countries in Absence of Protection: Digital Reconstruction, Recording, and Archiving before Complete Disappearance
Digital Humanities
This journal covers the topic of Malaysia, and how it is an area in the world where digital preservation is not that strong, which makes any historical heritage that can be found is at risk of being lost. As such, the journal covers cases where they go to Malaysia and gain digital version of information regarding historical buildings in Malaysia, such as the A&W PJ contemporary restaurant and the structure of another building's design. There are a lot of historical elements within the Malaysian area that showcase a lot of the culture of the people, as well as giving a better idea of how the people lived, showcased in the architectural structures of the buildings that may not be seen used elsewhere. As such, it is seen as a wise decision to digitally document this information so that it may be found again in the future, preventing any of it from being lost or destroyed overtime. Methods of preserving these kinds of data required for the researches to go to these locations in person, taking close looks at the layout of the buildings, taking pictures of the ways that they were structured and built, then coming back to create 3D models of the buildings as away to preserve their image.
Esmaeili, Human. Woods, Peter Charles. Thwaites, Harold
2015
Gonzalez, Sean
Journal
9781467397216
International employee assistance digital archive: A new knowledge hub
Collective Memory
This journal article documents the history and digitization efforts performed and enforced by the International Employee Assistance Digital Archive (EA Archive), housed at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Social Work (UMSSW). The Employee Assistance Archive adopts the coordinated endeavor to transfer paper-based research documentation to digital platforms that grant its users increased access to vast amounts of content oriented towards social workers, opening its availability at no cost to the user since 2013. With UMSSW’s expansive history of leadership in the field of master’s level social work education, the university focuses on the digitization of large amounts of records and historical documents that previously remained inaccessible for the public before its incorporation into a digital online format. As archivists around the world contribute to greater access to research materials, the EA takes into prominent consideration the indispensable teachings and ideas of other acclaimed archive examples in the implementation of policies and digitization approaches. The article serves as an introduction to the Employee Assistance Archive for readers and authors of the Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health (JWBH), placing preeminent attention on the encouragement of its readers to take part in the effort and contribute their research as a way to boost public access to more global audiences.
Herlihy, Patricia A.; Frey, Jody Jacobson; Lin, Na; and Khan, Alaina
Haworth Press, Taylor & Francis Online
2020-02-15
Taveras, Sabrina
Journal Article
ISSN: 1555-5240 (Print) 1555-5259 (Online)
Between Archive and Participation: Public Memory in a Digital Age
Collective Memory
In sizing up the notion of public memory, rhetoricians would be remiss not to consider the increasing influence of new media on today's remembrance culture. This article addresses memorial functions of the internet in light of recent scholarly debates about virtues and drawbacks of modern 'archival memory' as well as the paradoxical link between the contemporary public obsession with memory and the acceleration of amnesia. To explore the strengths and limitations of the internet as a vehicle of collecting, preserving, and displaying traces of the past, the article examines The September 11 Digital Archive, a comprehensive online effort to document public involvement in recording and commemorating the tragedy of 11 September, 2001.
Haskins, Ekaterina
Taylor & Francis Group
2007
Vieira, Lisa
Journal Article
Negotiating Community Literary Practice: Public Memory Work and the Boston Marathon Bombing Digital Archive
Collective Memory
This study examines Our Marathon <http://marathon.neu.edu>, which is a digital historiography website created in response to the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15th, 2013. As a participatory archive, Our Marathon is an example of community literacy practice. This article explores the construction of community through the public memory work of the archive by examining two collections of archival artifacts: public submissions and the Boston City Archives content. This examination reveals the complexity of community construction, but also the influence of Our Marathon as a material support for the work of public memory. Highlighting the archive's negotiation between an intimate space for community participation in the wake of trauma, and its role as an open, digital archive with global reach, this article demonstrates that tensions of this negotiation are useful to highlight the power of the archive as a location of public memory construction, and can suggest ways Our Marathon and other digital historiographic projects can better foster community participation and formation through the reflexive collection, preservation, and display of archival content.
Smith, Kevin G.
Elsevier Inc.
2016-03-16
Vieira, Lisa
Journal Article
Historypin
Collective Memory
Historypin is an archive that uses a collaborative approach to create stronger ties with local history. Users—either individuals or institutions —upload records and denote the location of the object by pinning it using Google Maps. These records can be arranged into collections which demonstrate the various applications of the site’s technology to digital scholarship, primarily through crowdsourcing. Users unaffiliated with the original creator of the collection are able to upload their own contributions. Both collections and records are assigned specific discussion threads, and can be shared through social media.
ShiftDesign
Wolf, Casey
Website
Academic Librarians' Varying Experiences of Archives: A Phenographic Study
Archives
This article reports on a study investigating academic librarians' varying experiences of archives in order to promote understanding and communication among librarians and archivists. A qualitative, phenomenographic approach was adopted for the study. Three different ways of experiencing archives were identified from analysis of interviews. Archives may be experienced by academic librarians as 1) a place which protects collections; 2) resources to be used in accomplishing tasks such as teaching, research, or outreach; or 3) manifestations of politics. The third way of experiencing archives is the most complex, incorporating both the other experiences. The results of this study may help librarians, especially academic librarians, and archivists communicate more clearly on joint projects involving archival collections thereby enabling more collaboration.
Wakimoto, Diana K.; Bruce, Christine S.
Journal of Academic Librarianship
2014-09
Allen, Amber
Journal Article
Orlando Memory
Collective Memory
Designed by the Orange County Library System, this is an archive that seeks to preserve personal records relating to Orlando, creating a database for local history research. It relies on user-created content in the form of images, audio files, or videos to construct a sense of what life in Orlando has been like throughout its history.
Orange County Library System
Orange County Library System
Wolf, Casey
Website
QR Codes for the Dead: Graveyards are becoming smart spaces, but will today's technology last forever?
Archive
Since 2010, the application of QR Codes has sprung their popularity in various industries, allowing companies to bring customers directly to their site via scanning a code with their smartphones.
QR Codes have become part of digital culture, therefore are applied in unlikely areas such as everyday objects rather than their intended use of advertisement. So the application of QR Codes on headstones begins the question of what is pertinent for these codes to demonstrate.
With the growth of QR Code use, applying them to headstones has expanded through individuals wanting to create an interactive memorial for their loved ones while also pertaining to more information than what is available on a typical headstone. In this way, anyone can scan the code with their smartphone and learn about the person in question.
However, the use of QR Codes in cemeteries is not so far fetched in terms of recording and organizing the deceased. The initial use of Geographic Information System was to digitize archaeological and historical data, including cemeteries, providing analysis of plots both ancient and contemporary, and genealogical information. QR Codes add to GIS in terms of detailed and specific information, mapping plots and their geographical location, and an increase in sharing information.
The controversy with applying QR Codes to the headstones of the deceased falls to the commodity aspect that QR Codes promote. While they promote sharing information, their connection to commercial use still taints the purpose of these codes.
Kneese, Tamara
The Atlantic
2014 May 21
Waddington, Calyn
Journal Article
Libraries, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Enabling Access and Promoting Inclusion
Collective memory
The authors of this book argue that libraries are institutions of human rights and social justice and should fully embrace this role. They outline ways in which preservation institutions can integrate social justice and human rights in their practice and policies. Jaeger et al. start out by introducing the notions of social justice and human rights, and historically trace how the two concepts intersect with information and literacy. Then, they examine how policies and regulations for library and preservation institutions implement human rights today. Examples of current practices illustrate what that entails. The authors also address reasons why libraries have struggled with incorporating social justice in some ways, and finally propose ways in which such obstacles can be overcome.
Jaeger, Paul T., Natalie Greene Taylor, and Ursula Gorham
2015
Moeller, Laura
Book
ISBN 10-1442250518