Category: New Publication

New Issue: Oral History, The Life Story in Practice

A new special online issue of the the leading journal Oral History, entitled ‘The Life Story in Practice’, presents for the first time a comprehensive volume of articles interrogating the life story methodology with numerous embedded links to audio files. This edition is an open-access (free to all). The life story in-depth biographical interview is central to the work of the British Library Oral History team encompassing National Life Stories (NLS www.bl.uk/nls); the oral history fieldwork charity established in 1987. NLS has supported this edition of the journal which stems from the papers and discussions at the NLS International Symposium on the Life Story, held at the British Library in summer 2023. .

We are confident it will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners, whether you are just setting out in oral history or have decades of experience. Download the pdf at https://www.ohs.org.uk/oral-history-online/. 

The special issue addresses the topic of the life story from many angles, including:

-An exploration of the process of life story recording and how this contrasts with other oral history techniques

-The value of life story collections to to wider policy debates

-The specific challenges we face in archiving and providing public access to life story interviews

-Reviews of the life story in the context of oral history scholarship

The edition was edited by Mary Stewart (NLS Director) and Rob Perks (NLS Trustee and former Director), and the publication features contributions from many members of the National Life Stories team in conjunction with internationally acclaimed oral historians including Alex Freund, Indira Chowdhury, Doug Boyd, Don Ritchie and Alistair Thomson . 

Read, listen, enjoy and feel free to contact the NLS and British Library oral history team with further questions and queries. For those interested in NLS’ ongoing projects our latest NLS Annual Review is available digitally at the British Library Research Repository [https://doi.org/10.23636/96rq-z652].  

**If you’ll be attending the OHA Annual Meeting in Cincinnati this autumn then please join Doug Boyd, Rob Perks, Don Ritchie and Mary Stewart for a roundtable discursive session exploring themes from the special issue (currently programmed for 10am on Friday 1 November – but check the final programme when it’s live). **

Thanks to the journal article authors, the editors, designers and proof reader of Oral History, the Symposium attendees, the NLS team and Trustees and – of course – to all past and current interviewees.

Contact Information

Mary Stewart, Lead Curator Oral History & Director National Life Stories at the British Library
Contact Email: mary.stewart@bl.uk
URL: https://www.ohs.org.uk/oral-history-online/

New/Recent Publications

Books

The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora
Edited by Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper and Gene Melton II
Rutgers University Press, 2024

Journalism History and Digital Archives
Bødker, Henrik (Ed.)
Routledge, 2023

New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages: Collecting, Curating, Assembling
Edited By Emily N. Savage
Routledge, 2024

Mind Museums: Former Asylums and the Heritage of Mental Health
Francesca Lanz
Routledge, 2024

Articles

Jatowt, A., Sato, M., Draxl, S., Duan, Y.,  Campos, R., & Yoshikawa, M.  (2024). Is this news article still relevant? Ranking by contemporary relevance in archival search. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 25, 197–216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00377-y

Zhao, Y., Wu, X., & Li, S. (2024). Perceived values to personal digital archives and their relationship to archiving behaviours: An exploratory research based on grounded theory. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 56(3), 677-697. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006231161327

Pierce, Rachel. “Sustainability and Swedish Women’s History: Digitizing Photographs from the KvinnSam Archives.” Digital Humanities Quarterly
Volume 18 Number 3, 2024.

Sony Prosper, Alexandria Rayburn, Yvette Ramirez, Ricardo L. Punzalan. “Indigenous Digital Projects: An Assessment Framework.” Information & Culture Volume 59, Number 1, 2024.

Recent Issue: Journal of Digital Media Management

Volume 12 / Number 3 / Spring 2024
(subscription)

Editorial
Beckett, Simon

Revitalising legacy video ingest workflow: A case study on cultivating a digital mindset and gaining key stakeholder buy-in to transition to a cloud-based media asset manager
Collins, Rob; Neff, Dominique

Welcome to the purge: Digital records in an era of new limits
Cline, Tyler G.; Howell, Katie Causie

DAM as a brand ambassador: How digital asset management can be a strong ally of brand strategy
Burns, Kristin

Case study: Accessioning and describing digital archival acquisitions using encoded archival description crosswalks
Doub, Bo

Through a glass darkly: Lessons from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens digital asset management implementation
Lee, Yvonne; Einaudi, Mario

Metadata remediation through migration, post-migration or necessary clean-up: A roadmap for success
Smith, Jason

Building the Black History and Visual Culture collection at Penn State University Libraries
Rea, Bethann; Green, Patrice R.; Clair, Kevin

Lehigh Libraries digital repositories migration: A case study
Japha, Alex

New Issue: Provenance

Provenance, Volume 40, Number 1 (2024)
(open access)

Article

Building Resilience: Three Decades of Cultural Heritage Emergency Preparedness and Response in Georgia
Tina Mason Seetoo and Christine S. Wiseman

Reviews

Review: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Autumn M. Johnson

Review: Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives
Blynne Olivieri Parker

Review: Archival Silences: Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives
Alison Reynolds

Review: Decolonial Archival Futures
Michelle Schabowski

Review: Museum Archives: Practice, Issues, Advocacy
Penny Cliff

Presentations Available: «Zugang zu Archiven – Recht oder Pflicht?»

Association of Swiss Archivists
Die Präsentationen unserer Fachtagung 2024 sind hier abrufbar.

«Access to archives – right or duty?»

The presentations from our 2024 conference are available here.

New Issue: Collections

Collections, Volume: 20, Number: 3 (September 2024)
(partial open access)

Introduction to the Focus Issue: Women and Museums
Holly O’Farrell

Not Just a Women Artists’s Show: Curatorial Challenges for the Exhibition of Women Artists in a Public Collection
Haizea Barcenilla

From Mammy to Big Mama: Caring for Collections on Our Own Terms
Kayla T. Jackson

Site of Social Justice Advocacy, or Home of Godly Women? Interpreting Women’s Work at the Frances Willard House Museum
Fiona Maxwell

The Women Who Built the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum Collection
Jennifer Morris

Dorothy Shepherd and the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ancient Near Eastern and Islamic Art Collection
Robin Hanson and Holly Witchey

Marvette Pérez: A Visionary Smithsonian Curator
Fath Davis Ruffins, Magdalena Mieri, L. Stephen Velasquez, and Ranald Woodaman

Collections of Collections: Alice T. Miner and Electra Havemeyer Webb
Anastasia Pratt

From Bolton to Brussels and Beyond: Two Women’s Passion for Museums and Collecting
Ian Andrew Oswald Trumble

The Field Collector, Ethnographer, and Scholarly Networker: Annie Marion Rivett-Carnac and her Collection of Indian Jewellery
Niti Acharya

Women, Empire, and Entomology: An Object Biography of Eleanor Glanville’s Pipevine Swallowtail, c. 1700
Michele D. Pflug

Tactics for Troubling Taste: Barbara Jones and the Blackeyes and Lemonade Exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1951
Alice Twemlow

New Issue: Journal of Documentation, Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Materials

Journal of Documentation, Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Materials, volume 80 issue 5
(partial open access)

Guest editorial: Artificial intelligence for cultural heritage materials
Glen Layne-Worthey, J. Stephen Downie

Computer vision and machine learning approaches for metadata enrichment to improve searchability of historical newspaper collections
Dilawar Ali, Kenzo Milleville, Steven Verstockt, Nico Van de Weghe, Sally Chambers, Julie M. Birkholz

Automated Dewey Decimal Classification of Swedish library metadata using Annif software Open access
Koraljka Golub, Osma Suominen, Ahmed Taiye Mohammed, Harriet Aagaard, Olof Osterman

Unsilencing colonial archives via automated entity recognition
Mrinalini Luthra, Konstantin Todorov, Charles Jeurgens, Giovanni Colavizza

User perspectives through cross-connections. The role of archives as part of the German digital research data infrastructure
Kai Naumann, Andreas Neuburger

Datafication of audiovisual archives: from practice mapping to a thinking model
Yuchen Yang

: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage
Ewan D. Hannaford, Viktor Schlegel, Rhiannon Lewis, Stefan Ramsden, Jenny Bunn, John Moore, Marc Alexander, Hannah Barker, Riza Batista-Navarro, Lorna Hughes, Goran Nenadic

Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues
Yumeng Hou, Fadel Mamar Seydou, Sarah Kenderdine

Validating predictions of burial mounds with field data: the promise and reality of machine learning Open access
Adela Sobotkova, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, Orla Mallon, Shawn Adrian Ross

New Issue: Comma

Comma: Volume 2022 Issue 1
(subscription)

Implementing the Digital Transfer of Records from Public Institutions: The Experience of the National Archives of Chile
Gabriela Andaur and Pilar Díaz

Linking Archives, Linked Open Data, and the Development of the World-Wide Directory of Repositories Holding Archives of Literature and Art
Elizabeth Bassett, Heather Dean, and David C. Sutton

Addressing Imbalances of the Colonial Heritage at the National Archives of Zimbabwe: Imagining Inclusive Archivy!
Amos Bishi

Not Only Cultural Heritage: The Economic Value of Archives
Lucia Biondi and Debora Chiarelli

Das Sächsische elektronische Kommunalarchiv: Eine Lösung für die Erhaltung der digitalen Kultur der Städte
Paolo Cecconi

European Digital Treasures: A Project to Address the European Archives’ Challenges
Cristina Díaz Martínez, Leonard Callus, and Zoltán Szatucsek

#archivesgateway: The State Archives of Palermo Opens Itself Up to the City
Francesca Di Pasquale, Floriana Giallombardo, Carmen Genovese, and Flora La Sita

Why Archivists Need to Know about Copyright
Jean Dryden

Bridging the Gaps Between Communities and their Memories: Comparing Community-Based Archives in Five Countries
Andrew Flinn, Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak, Mônica Tenaglia, Mengqui Li, and Luisa Seixas

Combler les fossés: quand les archives pallient aux lacunes de la mémoire individuelle
Pierre Flückiger and Anouk Dunant Gonzenbach

Trentino’s Historical Archives Portal: A Tool to “Bridging the Gap”?
Stefania Franzoi and Fiammetta Baldo

Breaking the Library Walls, Bridging the Gap with Generation Next
Vicky Gerontopoulou, Maria Pazarli, and Kostas Diamantis

Connecting the Archives: Collaboration between the National Archives of Japan and Local Archives
Yamatani Hideyuki

Disruption of Academic Archival Practice: A Preliminary Examination of Finding Aids
Lisa Lawlis and Anne Quirk

Federating the Authorities and Training the Employees in Order to Bridge the Digital Gap: The Project “Protocollo Informatico Trentino” (P.I.Tre.)
Annamaria Lazzeri and Carlo Bortoli

European Union, Archives, Rights
Tommaso Maria Rossi

Archives Buildings: Witnesses of the Past, Bridging to Modernity
France Saïe-Belaïsch and Odile Welfelé

A Novel Heterocyclic Fungicide (1, 3, 4-THIADIAZOLO [3, 2-a] PYRIMIDIN-5-ONES) Plays a Vital Role to Inhibit Fungus from Archival Cultural Heritage
Sarvesh Singh

Strengthening the Connections Between the Citizens and the Hellenic Parliament
Iouliani Theodosi

New Perspectives for Access to Archival Heritage in Italy between Privacy, Copyright, and Protection Rules
Silvia Filippin and Mirco Modolo

New Perspectives / Nouvelles Perspectives

Recommendations on Using Artificial Intelligence in Archival Appraisal and Selection
Rebecca Y. Bayeck, Giovanni Colavizza, Jenny Bunn, Mark Bell, and Souvick Ghosh

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science: International Journal on Recorded Information vol. 24 issue 3
(open access)

It’s only a mirage: Tahar Djaout’s critique of logocentrism in L’Invention du désert
Abdelkader Aoudjit

Scouring the desert: political violence traceability in the Americas
Paola Diaz, Rodrigo Suarez

Finding values, building communities: development of an archival appraisal system for the Thai public sector
Naya Sucha-xaya

An opportunity to stay connected: documenting personal communication records of military personnel
Allan A. Martell, Edward Benoit III

Archiving difficult realities: a systematic investigation of records related to sexual violence in US college and university archives
Ana Roeschley, Julie Miller, Alison Nikitopoulos, Morgan Davis Gieringer, Jessica Holden

The disposal of paper public documents in the face of their digitization: what is lost?
Josimas Eugênio Silva, Michael David de Souza Dutra

Creating a representative archive of performance practice at the National Theatre of Great Britain
Erin Lee

Building ignorance by disseminating “evidence”: an agnotological look into the digital archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Natalia Pashkeeva

Instituting a framework for reparative description
Stephanie M. Luke, Sharon Mizota

New Issue: Digital Humanities Quarterly, Special Issue: Using Visual AI Applied to Digital Archives

2024 18.2
Special Issue: Using Visual AI Applied to Digital Archives

Front Matter

Introduction to the Special Issue: Using Visual AI Applied to Digital Archives
Lise Jaillant, Loughborough University, UK

Articles

[en] Augmenting Access to Embodied Knowledge Archives: A Computational Framework
Giacomo Alliata, Laboratory for Experimental Museology, EPFL, Switzerland; Yumeng Hou, Laboratory for Experimental Museology, EPFL, Switzerland; Sarah Kenderdine, Laboratory for Experimental Museology, EPFL, Switzerland

[en] Sensitivity and Access: Unlocking the Colonial Visual Archive with Machine Learning
Jonathan Dentler, Catholic University of Paris; German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.; Lise Jaillant, Loughborough University, UK; Daniel Foliard, Université Paris Cité, LARCA (UMR 8225); Julien Schuh, Université Paris Nanterre; Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Mondes

[en] AI and Medical Images: Addressing Ethical Challenges to Provide Responsible Access to Historical Medical Illustrations
Lise Jaillant, Loughborough University, UK; Katherine Aske, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

[en] Capturing Captions: Using AI to Identify and Analyse Image Captions in a Large Dataset of Historical Book Illustrations
Julia Thomas, School of English Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University; Irene Testini, Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University

[en] Deep Learning for Historical Cadastral Maps and Satellite Imagery Analysis: Insights from Styria’s Franciscean Cadastre
Wolfgang Thomas Göderle, University of Innsbruck; Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology; Fabian Rampetsreiter, University of Graz; Christian Macher, Know Center; Katrin Mauthner, Know Center; Oliver Pimas, Know Center

Articles

[en] “Open” or “Close” Research Instruments? Conflicting Rationales in the Organization of Early Digital Medieval History in Europe (1960–1990).
Edgar Lejeune, Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences (University of Amsterdam)

[en] Lilypond Music-Notation Software in the Digital-Humanities Toolbox
Andrew A. Cashner, University of Rochester

[en] LemonizeTBX: Design and Implementation of a New Converter from TBX to OntoLex-Lemon
Andrea Bellandi, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa – Italy; Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/b, 35131 Padova, Italy; Silvia Piccini, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa – Italy; Federica Vezzani, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padova, Via Elisabetta Vendramini, 13 35137 Padova, Italy

Case Studies

[en] Towards a National Data Architecture for Cultural Collections: Designing the Australian Cultural Data Engine
Rachel Fensham, University of Melbourne; Australian Cultural Data Engine; Tyne Daile Sumner, Australian National University; Australian Cultural Data Engine; Nat Cutter, University of Melbourne; Australian Cultural Data Engine; George Buchanan, RMIT University; Rui Liu, University of Melbourne; Justin Munoz, Independent Scholar; James Smithies, Australian National University; Ivy Zheng, University of Newcastle; David Carlin, RMIT University; Erik Champion, University of South Australia; Hugh Craig, University of Newcastle; Scott East, University of New South Wales; Chris Hay, Flinders University; Lisa M. Given, RMIT University; John Macarthur, University of Queensland; David McMeekin, Curtin University; Joanna Mendelssohn, University of Melbourne; Deborah van der Plaat, University of Queensland

[en] Graph based modelling of prosopographical datasets. Case study: Romans 1by1
Rada Varga, Babeș-Bolyai University; Stefan Bornhofen, CY Cergy Paris University

[en] From Archive to Database: Using Crowdsourcing, TEI, and Collaborative Labor to Construct the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project
Hilary Havens, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Eliza Alexander Wilcox, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Meredith L. Hale, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jamie Kramer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Reviews

[en] A Review of James Little’s The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas (2021)
Céline Thobois-Gupta, Trinity College Dublin

[en] A Review of Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design (2018)
Diane K. Jakacki, Bucknell University

[en] The Humans and Algorithms of Music Recommendation: A Review of Computing Taste (2022)
Jacob Pleasants, University of Oklahoma

[en] Digital Methods in Literary Criticism: A Review of Digital Humanities and Literary Studies (2022)
Lili Wang, Harbin Engineering University; Tianxiang Chen, Harbin Engineering University