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The Silence of the Archive (Paperback)
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The Silence of the Archive (Paperback)
Series: Principles and Practice in Records Management and Archives
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In recent years big data initiatives, not to mention Hollywood, the
video game industry and countless other popular media, have
reinforced and even glamorized the public image of the archive as
the ultimate repository of facts and the hope of future generations
for uncovering 'what actually happened'. The reality is, however,
that for all sorts of reasons the record may not have been
preserved or survived in the archive. In fact, the record may never
have even existed - its creation being as imagined as is its
contents. And even if it does exist, it may be silent on the
salient facts, or it may obfuscate, mislead or flat out lie. The
Silence of the Archive is written by three expert and knowledgeable
archivists and draws attention to the many limitations of archives
and the inevitability of their having parameters. Silences or gaps
in archives range from details of individuals' lives to records of
state oppression or of intelligence operations. The book brings
together ideas from a wide range of fields, including contemporary
history, family history research and Shakespearian studies. It
describes why these silences exist, what the impact of them is, how
researchers have responded to them, and what the silence of the
archive means for researchers in the digital age. It will help
provide a framework and context to their activities and enable them
to better evaluate archives in a post-truth society. This book
includes discussion of: enforced silences expectations and when
silence means silence digital preservation, authenticity and the
future dealing with the silence possible solutions; challenging
silence and acceptance the meaning of the silences: are things
getting better or worse? user satisfaction and audience
development. This book will make compelling reading for
professional archivists, records managers and records creators,
postgraduate and undergraduate students of history, archives,
librarianship and information studies, as well as academics and
other users of archives.
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