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Collective Collecting: The Syrian Archive and the New Challenges of Historiography

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dc.creatorDang, Sarah-Mai
dc.creatorStrohmaier, Alena
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-24T13:55:01Z
dc.date.available2020-08-24T13:55:01Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-31
dc.description.abstractMassive digitization makes histories appear as well as disappear. While digital archives facilitate the access to documents, recordings, films, and other s urces there is the risk that offlin sources get lost. Thus, the question about how digital collections are generated is essential for today’s film and media historians. Which artefacts are getting digitiz d – and which are not? In addition, for what reasons? Who is responsible for preserving historical material? Moreover, how can we access it? How can we make sense of the abundance of audio-visual sources, which are at the same time ephemeral? In this article, we analyse tools and methods useful for coping with digital archives and databases. Presenting a case study on the Syrian Archive, we discuss how concepts of authenticity and provenance relate to current media practices. We argue that besides posing productive research questions, conducting critical online search becomes more and more important in the humanities. Therefore, we examine not only what but also how the use of audio-visual material affects us. Furthermore, we argue that regarding the abundance of material the practice of curating – of selecting, structuring, and providing access – becomes a key activity in digital media practices.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2018.jethc155
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14756
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15736
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectvideo activismen
dc.subjectdigital methodsen
dc.subjectdigital video archivesen
dc.subjecthistoriographyen
dc.subjectSyriaen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleCollective Collecting: The Syrian Archive and the New Challenges of Historiographyen
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:13:24
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2018.jethc155
local.source.epage102
local.source.issue14
local.source.spage88
local.source.volume7
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