Archive Journal

The wonderful chaos, the mess, the abundance, the depths, the urgency of digital serials research could be a deterrent to working with them in the university classroom.... The following case stud...

http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/critical-cataloging-and-the-serials-archive-the-digital-making-of-mill-girls-in-nineteenth-century-print/

Archivists and special collections librarians have long sought technological solutions to their information management, workflow, and patron-access challenges.

http://www.archivejournal.net/notes/archivesspace-and-aeon-specialized-tools-in-an-integrated-world/

Whether it is a seventeenth-century poem or a nineteenth-century novel, every literary work in an anthology is formatted with the same introduction, heading, font, and margins. This regularizatio...

http://www.archivejournal.net/notes/hyperlinked-survey/

Although they are frequently celebrated for democratizing manuscript studies, digital manuscripts have just as often catalyzed divisive interactions. Medievalists who study digitized manuscripts,...

http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/digital-medieval-manuscript-cultures/

The potentialities of digital technology, for those of us concerned with the study of medieval manuscripts, invite some consideration. Our archive is the world: our materials are scattered across...

http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/digital-archive-scholarly-enquiry-and-the-study-of-medieval-english-manuscripts/

In 1995, as part of the Electronic Beowulf project, Professor Kevin Kiernan of the University of Kentucky and David French of the British Library’s Manuscript Conservation Studio took the Briti...

http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/why-do-we-digitize-the-case-for-slow-digitization/

Introduction Medieval manuscripts were made to be handled: to be read, to be touched, to be annotated, even kissed.1 Those fortunate enough to work directly with surviving written heritage contin...

http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/digital-manuscripts-as-sites-of-touch-using-social-media-for-hands-on-engagement-with-medieval-manuscript-materiality/

Acid burn-through is a problem particularly prevalent in the earliest paper sources, where acidity and poor paper quality coupled with thick, acidic ink recipes (where frequently the liquid part ...

http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/recovering-lost-texts-rebuilding-lost-manuscripts/

Digital manuscripts are part of the infrastructure of medieval studies in the twenty-first century. Given this fact of contemporary scholarship, we need nuanced and detailed understandings of how...

http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/remix-the-medieval-manuscript-experiments-with-digital-infrastructure/

The October 2017 issue of the paradigmatic journal of medieval studies, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, demonstrates that digital humanities and medieval studies have long been intertwin...

http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/julian-of-norwich-and-the-digital/