History and Electronic Artefacts
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-823633-7 (ISBN)
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We are now entering a world of electronic communications where an increasing amount of contemporary information is created and retained only in electronic form. How will such unstable flows of information be preserved for future historians? Will the future have a past? Will the history of our contemporary world be lost to our descendants? History and Electronic Artefacts is the first publication to examine the implications of this revolution for historical research. Historians are used to handling paper and parchment record in archives. These are actual pieces of correspondence which passed between historical actors. They are also relatively stable artefacts which can be preserved easily. Two factors introduced by the electronic revolution threaten the existence of paper archives: the dissociation between information content and the media by which it is transmitted ruptures the solidity of the archival object. The ability to store electronic information anywhere and access it remotely via networks could make the central paper archive redundant.
Experts from the fields of information management and technology, data archiving, library science, as well as historians, consider the issues raised in depth. The authors also place a unique emphasis on European developments.
Introduction; I. THE HISTORIAN IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE; 1. Electronic Documents and the History of the Late 20th Century Black Holes or Warehouses: What do Historians Really Want?; 2. Beyond Content: Electronic Fingerprints and the Use of Documents; 3. Electronic Information Resources and Historians: A Consumer's View; 4. Information in the Business Enterprise; 5. Russian Records: An Archive System under Pressure in the Information Age; II. INFORMATION CREATION AND CAPTURE; 6. The Expanding World of Electronic Information and the Past's Future; 7. The Management of Electronic Information Resources in a Corporate Environment; 8. Historians, Archivists, and Electronic Record Keeping in U.K. Government; 9. Electronic Mail: Information Systems Exchange of Information Loss; 10. Secondary Use of Computerised Patient Records: Opportunities and Problems; III. PRESERVATION AND DISSEMINATION: THEORY; 11. Information Technology and the Implications for the Study of History in the Future; 12. Electronic Information and the Functional Integration of Libraries, Museums, and Archives; 13. Increasing the Value of Data; 14. Defining Electronic Records: Problems of Terminology; 15. Management, Freedom, and History: The Role of Tomorrow's Electronic Archives; IV. THE PRACTICE OF PRESERVATION FROM THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE; 16. German Unification and Electronic Records: The Example of the 'Kaderdatenspeicher'; 17. The British Library and the Challenge of Electronic Media: A View from the Perspective of; SPECIAL COLLECTIONS; 18. Collecting Software: Preserving Information in an Object-Centred Culture; 19. Research Library Directions in the 1990s; 20. Data Conservation at a Traditional Data Archive; 21. Electronic Records and Historians: The Case of the Netherlands; 22. Swedish Society and Electronic Data; 22. European Developments: Towards a United but Distributed Archives of Europe?
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.3.1998 |
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| Zusatzinfo | halftones, line figures |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-823633-6 / 0198236336 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-823633-7 / 9780198236337 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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