Contents

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