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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Dedication V
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Contents IX
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Part I: Digital Archive of Science: Boundaries and Tensions
  7. Part I: Digital Archive of Science: Boundaries and Tensions 19
  8. Chapter 1 Traditional Archive, Knowledge Repository and the Digital 23
  9. Chapter 2 The OAIS Archive: A Hermeneutic Turn 38
  10. Chapter 3 History of Science and its Archive 48
  11. Chapter 4 Collection of Collections 60
  12. Closing Notes: On What Can Still Be Said 72
  13. Part II: Archival Representations: How Do Digital Collections Bring Order?
  14. Part II: Archival Representations: How Do Digital Collections Bring Order? 75
  15. Chapter 5 Narrativity 81
  16. Chapter 6 Visibility 97
  17. Chapter 7 Connectivity 114
  18. Chapter 8 Legibility 128
  19. Closing Notes: Opening the Archive – or Keeping it Closed? 145
  20. Part III: Modelling the Archive: The Reaction Key and its Histories
  21. Chapter 9 Let the Stones Speak: Towards an Interpretive Archive 147
  22. Chapter 10 Ontology as a Knowledge Machine 158
  23. Chapter 11 Archiving through Modelling 168
  24. Chapter 12 Biographies 176
  25. Chapter 13 Assemblages 193
  26. Chapter 14 Mediations 205
  27. Closing Notes: In Theory, We Preserve 215
  28. Part IV: Machine Memory: SAILDART and Born-Digital Vestiges
  29. Part IV: Machine Memory: SAILDART and Born-Digital Vestiges 219
  30. Chapter 15 Archeology 225
  31. Chapter 16 Mediology 239
  32. Chapter 17 Exegesis 253
  33. Chapter 18 Digital Scientific Personality: The Case of John McCarthy 267
  34. Chapter 19 Residual Commons: From Discourses to Practices 283
  35. Closing Notes: Remembering Forward 299
  36. Past of Science in the Making: A Conclusion 301
  37. Bibliography
  38. Index 331
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