Digital Archives of Science
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About this book
The archive of science preserves the sediments of scientific practices: drafts, protocols of rejected hypotheses and failed experiments, obsolete instruments and other vestiges of knowledge-making. As science becomes increasingly digital, so does its archive – transforming not only how the scientific past is preserved, but how it is interpreted and engaged with. Digital collections clearly differ from the traditional lieux de mémoire. Rather than tangible and authentic objects, they store data – processable, mutable, and dependent on computational infrastructures. How do these infrastructures shape our encounters with the scientific past? What happens to the vestiges of science when they turn into data?
Positioned at the intersection of Science Studies, Media Studies, and Digital Humanities, this book critically examines digital archives of science as infrastructures that mediate memory and knowledge. Drawing on a large
corpus of scientifi c collections across disciplines and combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, it explores the boundaries and possibilities introduced by these digital repositories. Ultimately, it asks what it means to
do history in and through digital archives.
Author / Editor information
Alina Volynskaya, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg.
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Frontmatter
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Dedication
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - Part I: Digital Archive of Science: Boundaries and Tensions
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Part I: Digital Archive of Science: Boundaries and Tensions
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Chapter 1 Traditional Archive, Knowledge Repository and the Digital
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Chapter 2 The OAIS Archive: A Hermeneutic Turn
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Chapter 3 History of Science and its Archive
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Chapter 4 Collection of Collections
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Closing Notes: On What Can Still Be Said
72 - Part II: Archival Representations: How Do Digital Collections Bring Order?
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Part II: Archival Representations: How Do Digital Collections Bring Order?
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Chapter 5 Narrativity
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Chapter 6 Visibility
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Chapter 7 Connectivity
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Chapter 8 Legibility
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Closing Notes: Opening the Archive – or Keeping it Closed?
145 - Part III: Modelling the Archive: The Reaction Key and its Histories
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Chapter 9 Let the Stones Speak: Towards an Interpretive Archive
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Chapter 10 Ontology as a Knowledge Machine
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Chapter 11 Archiving through Modelling
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Chapter 12 Biographies
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Chapter 13 Assemblages
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Chapter 14 Mediations
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Closing Notes: In Theory, We Preserve
215 - Part IV: Machine Memory: SAILDART and Born-Digital Vestiges
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Part IV: Machine Memory: SAILDART and Born-Digital Vestiges
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Chapter 15 Archeology
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Chapter 16 Mediology
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Chapter 17 Exegesis
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Chapter 18 Digital Scientific Personality: The Case of John McCarthy
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Chapter 19 Residual Commons: From Discourses to Practices
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Closing Notes: Remembering Forward
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Past of Science in the Making: A Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Index
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