Abstract
This paper presents a critical analysis of disciplinary discussions on user-generated contributions to institutional archives collections metadata and attempts to assess its impact on professional archivists’ approach to archival description. It frames archival description as a distinct knowledge domain and considers the possibilities, limitations, and contradictions of expanding this key function of archival work beyond the professional purview. It discusses how enhanced user participation might contribute to the knowledge and information infrastructures of archives and what this might suggest for archival description going forward. It identifies various practical, theoretical, and ethical implications for archives emerging from this body of literature, all undergirded by the role of technology in shaping the cultural and historical phenomena that archives seek to capture. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of archives’ renewed place in knowledge building in a digital society and offers suggestions for continued inquiry.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
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- Disinformation and Its Negative Impact in the Changing World of Mass Media (Specifically Focused on the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic)
- User Participation in Archival Knowledge Structures: Archival Description as Domain and Testing Ground
- Contextual Factors Affecting the Cooperation of Vietnamese Academic Libraries in Information Resource Sharing
- Investigating Role of Technological and Organizational Factors Towards Students’ Knowledge Sharing Behavior in Pakistan
- A Note on Law and Economics of Legal Deposit Systems
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- Libri Best Student Research Paper Award 2023
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Disinformation and Its Negative Impact in the Changing World of Mass Media (Specifically Focused on the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic)
- User Participation in Archival Knowledge Structures: Archival Description as Domain and Testing Ground
- Contextual Factors Affecting the Cooperation of Vietnamese Academic Libraries in Information Resource Sharing
- Investigating Role of Technological and Organizational Factors Towards Students’ Knowledge Sharing Behavior in Pakistan
- A Note on Law and Economics of Legal Deposit Systems
- Depictions of Diversity in Books Recommended for Storytime: A Cautionary Tale
- The Roles of Social Media in Information Services: Systematic Review and Expert Scrutiny
- Libri Best Student Research Paper Award 2023