The making of a digital archive, by a non-archivist

Suggested readings

The readings below were important contributions for the process of making David Wurfel digital archive. They provide insights for non-archivists (and archivists too) interested in creating a digital archive. 


Boyd, D. A. & Larson, M. A. (Eds.). (2014). Oral history and digital humanities: voice, access, and engagement. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
 
Caswell, M. L. (2017). Inventing New Archival Imaginaries: Theoretical Foundations for Identity-Based Community Archives.
 
Douglas, J. (2015). The archiving “I”: a closer look in the archives of writers. Archivaria79, 53-89.
 
Douglas, J. (2018). A Call to Rethink Archival Creation: Exploring types of creation in personal archives. Archival Science, 18(1), 29-49.
 
Duff, W. M. & Harris, V. (2002). Stories and Names: Archival description as narrating records and constructing meanings. Archival Science2(3-4), 263-285.
 
Purdy, J. P. (2011). Three gifts of digital archives. Journal of Literacy and Technology12(3), 24-49.
 
Rawson, K. J. (2017). The Rhetorical Power of Archival Description: Classifying Images of Gender Transgression. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 1-25.
 
Sinner, A. (2013). Archival Research as Living Inquiry: An alternate approach for research in the histories of teacher education. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 36(3), 241-251.
 
Whatley, S. (2013). Dance encounters online; digital archives and performance. Performing Archives/Archives of Performance, 163-78.

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