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

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Micah Altman, Richard Landau. “Selecting Efficient and Reliable Preservation Strategies: Modeling Long-term Information Integrity Using Large-scale Hierarchical Discrete Event Simulation.” International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024)

Jonas Recker, Mari Kleemola, Hervé L’Hours. “Closing Gaps: A Model of Cumulative Curation and Preservation Levels for Trustworthy Digital Repositories.” International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024)

Meyerl, Jordan (2024) “Review of Queer Data Studies,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 11, Article 4.

Buchanan, Rose (2024) “Review of War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 11, Article 3.

Shiozaki, R. (2024). People’s perceptions on social media archiving by the National Library of Japan. Journal of Information Science50(4), 861-873. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221108692

Fan, Q. (2024), “Research on intangible cultural heritage resource description and knowledge fusion based on linked data”, The Electronic Library, Vol. 42 No. 4, pp. 521-535. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-01-2023-0018

Chen, H., Kim, J.(A)., Chen, J. and Sakata, A. (2024), “Demystifying oral history with natural language processing and data analytics: a case study of the Densho digital collection”, The Electronic Library, Vol. 42 No. 4, pp. 643-663. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-12-2023-0303

Books

A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive: Lucknow Queerscapes
Sonal Mithal, Arul Paul
Routledge, 2024

Archives and Archiving in the 21st Century
Edited By Radhika Seshan
Routledge, 2024

Archive as Detour: Historical Re-enactment in Artist Archive and Archival Art Practices of Contemporary Hong Kong
Sau Wai Vennes Cheng
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Design Thinking in Cultural and Heritage Management: Creating Solutions in the Field of Culture
By Lubomira Trojan, Łukasz Wróblewski
Routledge, 2024

Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives
Tanya E Clement
The MIT Press, 2024

Archival Science in Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice
Corinne Rogers and Alexandra Wieland
Rowman & Littlefield

International Perspectives on Museum Management
Edited By Darko Babic
Routledge, 2024

Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Edited By Proscovia Svärd, Bonny Ibhawoh
Routledge, 2024

Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain
Javier Fernández-Galeano
Stanford University Press, 2024

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives
Jamie Callison (Anthology Editor) , Matthew Feldman (Anthology Editor) , Anna Svendsen (Anthology Editor) , Erik Tonning (Anthology Editor)

Modern Manuscripts and the Pre-History of Digital Humanities: Paper Processors
Alex Christie
Palgrave Macmillan

Reports

Governance and Business Models for Collaborative Collection Development
Tracy Bergstrom, Oya Y. Rieger, Roger C. Schonfeld

Building a National Finding Aid Network: Final Report
2024
Turner, Adrian; Schiff, Lisa; Mitchell, Catherine; Waibel, Günter

Podcasts

Talking Archives – Episode 9: Julia Minne

The History of Literature Podcast, Lesbians in the Archives (with Amelia Possanza)

Case Studies

TPS Collective
CASE #29: One Class Five Ways by Lauren Kata and Suphan Kirmizialtin
CASE #28: Studying the Physical Book across Collections by Lauren Coats, John David Miles, and Brittany O’Neill
Case #27: Oral Histories as Primary Sources in the Classroom: Examples from the Gordon W. Prange Collection, University of Maryland Libraries by Kana Jenkins
Case #26: Teaching the History of Higher Ed through Primary Sources and Digital Exhibits by Rhia Rae, Molly Castro, and Annia Gonzalez

New Issue: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal

International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal
Issue 54, 2024
(open access)

Editorial
Jennifer Vaughn

A Letter from IASA’s President
Patrick Midtlyng

Articles

Excavating Wartime Sound Heritage of Germany, Italy, and Japan
Captured Axis Sound Recordings in the Washington, D.C. Area and their Documentation
Carolyn Birdsall, Erica Harrison

The Revolution of Duplicated Music
Sonic Markers to Identify Early Phonograph Cylinder Copies in Archive Collections
Thomas Bårdsen

True Echoes
Researching wax cylinders recorded during the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait Islands
Grace Koch, Rebekah Hayes

New Issue: Journal of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

Journal of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives no. 54 (2024)
(open access)

Editorial
Jennifer Vaughn

A Letter from IASA’s President
Patrick Midtlyng

Excavating Wartime Sound Heritage of Germany, Italy, and Japan
Captured Axis Sound Recordings in the Washington, D.C. Area and their Documentation
Carolyn Birdsall, Erica Harrison

The Revolution of Duplicated Music
Sonic Markers to Identify Early Phonograph Cylinder Copies in Archive Collections
Thomas Bårdsen

True Echoes
Researching wax cylinders recorded during the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait Islands
Grace Koch, Rebekah Hayes

Recent Issue: Archives and Records

Archives and Records, Vol. 45 no. 1, 2024
(partial open access)

Articles

Best practice in volunteer management in archives: analyzing two organizations
Inês M. Ferreira

Trusting the copies? Historical photographs and native title claims
Joanna Sassoon, Michael Aird & David Trigger

Defining ‘proper research’: privileged access, local authority archives and the academic researcher
Jessamy Carlson

Access to Public Archives in Europe: progress in the implementation of CoE Recommendation R (2000)13 on a European policy on access to archives
Michael Friedewald, Iván Székely & Murat Karaboga

Book Review

English archives, an historical survey
edited by Richard Olney, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press with the British Records Association, 2023
Maureen Jurkowski

Practical approaches to collections care
by Samantha Forsko, London, Routledge, 2023
Fiona Bourne

New/Recent Publications

Books

Chapron, Emmanuelle, and Fabienne Henryot, eds. Archives en bibliothèques, XVIe-XXIe siècles. Lyon: ENS Editions; Institut d’histoire du livre, 2023.

Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel
Crucifix, Benoît
Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Helton, Laura E.
Columbia University Press, 2023.

On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
Holsinger, Bruce W.
Yale University Press, 2023.

Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century
Ludovico, Alessandro
MIT Press, 2023.

Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries
Molin, Emma Hagström
Brill, 2023.

Digital Humanities in the Library, Second Edition
Arianne Hartsell-Gundy Laura Braunstein Liorah Golomb
ACRL, 2024

Journalism History and Digital Archives
Edited By Henrik Bødker
Routledge, 2021

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

The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences, ca. 1890–1945
Edited by Laura Cleaver, Danielle Magnusson, Hannah Morcos and Angéline Rais
ARC Humanities Press, 2024

Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation: The Keeping Place
Robert Hudson, Shannon Woodcock
Routledge, 2022

Welcoming Museum Visitors with Unapparent Disabilities
Beth Redmond-Jones, ed.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Materialities in Dance and Performance: Writing, Documenting, Archiving
Gabriele Klein / Franz Anton Cramer (eds.)
transcript, 2024

Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition
Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive

Marija Dalbello, Sarah Wadsworth, eds.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Illustration and Heritage
Rachel Emily Taylor
Bloomsbury, 2024

Articles

Jatowt, A., Sato, M., Draxl, S. et al. Is this news article still relevant? Ranking by contemporary relevance in archival search. Int J Digit Libr 25, 197–216 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00377-y

Garg, K., Jayanetti, H.R., Alam, S. et al. Challenges in replaying archived Twitter pages. Int J Digit Libr 25, 217–236 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00379-w

Alenka Kavčič Čolić, Andreja Hari. “Improving accessibility of digitization outputs: EODOPEN project research findings.” Digital Library Perspectives 40, no. 2 (2024)

Podcasts

Archives in Context: Season 8, Episode 3: Maryna Paliienko

Recent Issue: Journal of the History of Collections

Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2024
(partial open access)

The art collections and museum of King William II of the Netherlands (1792–1849)
Ellinoor Bergvelt

Lucanian heritage across the world: the Spanish collections
Alain Duplouy and Mariana Silva Porto

Acquisition, duplicates and exchange: C. P. de Bosset’s collections from Cephalonia, Ithaca and Delphi in the British Museum
Amelia Dowler

Continuity and change in the British diplomatic service in the Levant: The ‘Levantine’ question and the lure of antiquities
Lucia Patrizio Gunning and Despina Vlami

Garden catalogues as sources for studying the collection and transmission of plants: Madeiran plants in the Ajuda botanical garden as a case-study
Sandra Mesquita and others

Creating the Bowes Museum: Collectors, dealers and auctions in mid-nineteenth-century Paris
Simon Spier

Collecting copper alloy portrait heads: A history of the acquisition and export of the Wúnmọníjẹ̀ heads in late colonial Nigeria
Tomos Llywelyn Evans

Reading between the lines: The Alba collection after the end of entailment (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
Whitney Dennis

Andrew Carnegie’s museum of evolution
Diana Strazdes

Collecting antiquities in wartime: The First World War Antiquities (Queensland) Project
James Donaldson and others

Twentieth-century private collecting: Dr Philip Nelson’s acquisition of sculptures from the Kinnaird collection at Rossie Priory
Georgina Muskett

Rediscovering John Martin: Collecting the apocalypse in post-war Britain
Laia Anguix-Vilches

Book Reviews

Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the early modern academy
Paula Findlen

Dai Medici ai Rothschild: mecenati, collezionisti, filantropi
Jörg Zutter

Ulisse Aldrovandi: Naturalist and collector
Henrietta McBurney

Sarcophagi and other Reliefs, 4 vols., Part A.III of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A catalogue raisonné
Arnold Nesselrath

The Temple of Fame & Friendship: Portraits, music, and history in the C.P.E. Bach circle
Naomi J Barker

A Collection in Context: kommentierte Edition der Briefe und Dokumente Sammlung Dr. Karl von Schäffer
Jonathan Kagan

Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market: Connoisseurship, networking and control of the marketplace
Alan Crookham

Ancient Art and its Commerce in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: The John Marshall Archive. A collection of essays written by the participants of the John Marshall Archive Project
Lynn Catterson

The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg’s library of prints
Armin Kunz

Recent Issue: ESARBICA

ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives / Vol. 42 (2023) 
(open access)

Editorial
Nampombe Saurombe, Makutla Mojapelo

Digital records curation education in Zambia
Abel M’kulama, Akakandelwa Akakandela, Tuesday Bwalya, Sitali Wamundila, Chrispin Hamooya

Ingesting digital records into an archival system
conceptual framework within a South African perspective
Lorette Jacobs, Thulisile Lemekoana

Exploration of education and training of records and archives management staff in the public sector organisations of Lusaka, Zambia
Chembe Kaluba, Thelma Siame Kapapa

Internet of Things for archival ease of access to users in the Fifth Industrial Revolution
Mashilo Modiba, Ngoako Solomon Marutha

Safeguarding plantation records of Malawi
Innocent Mankhwala

Archives as evidence for land restitution process in South Africa
Lyborn Mabapa

Navigating the digital era: challenges and solutions for archival professional in education and training
Tolulope Balogun

Disaster preparedness for records management at the Workers’ Compensation Fund, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Praygod Ng’unda, Esther Ndenje-Sichalwe

Impact of COVID-19 on access to the National Archives of Zimbabwe
post-pandemic accessibility and future operations
Samuel Chabikwa, Patrick Ngulube

Digitisation of claims records at the Road Accident Fund in South Africa
Vanessa Neo Mathope

Moving with times
The inclusion of Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies in the curriculum of Library and Information Science Schools in Botswana and South Africa
Olefhile Mosweu, Sidney Netshakhuma

Unearthing archival climate change baseline data in southern and eastern Africa
Graham Dominy