Archival Materialities in a Digital Age

9780197267851, OUP/British Academy

Hardback, published 27 February 2025

300 pages, 55 figures
24 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.776 kg

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 Age contains a series of authoritative studies by archivists and researchers who are grappling with these issues on a daily basis. The research presented in Archival Materialities in a Digital Age shows 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.

Subject Areas: Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects [G]