Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Histories of Data Archiving: From Fisheries Research to Cybernetics." Dr. Bethany Anderson’s (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) fascinating presentation “Machine Learning and Archival Practice: A Cybernetics Case Study on Computational Approaches to Digital Materials” reports on the results of a two-year long NEH-funded project at the... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a four-person panel entitled "Digital Transformations, Changing Institutions." Ed Summers (University of Maryland, College Park) shares a chapter in his successfully defended dissertation entitled “Seeing Software: Appraisal in Web Archives.” Based on a year-long field study which Summers conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a four-person panel entitled "Digital Transformations, Changing Institutions." Dallas Pillen (formerly Metadata and Digital Curation Archivist at the University of Michigan, now at Wayne State University) and Max Eckard (Lead Archivist for Digital Initiatives, University of Michigan, Bentley Library) discuss the “Impact of the Shift to Cloud Computing on... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a four-person panel entitled "Digital Transformations, Changing Institutions." Note: This review is presented in both English and Spanish. It is based on transcriptions of both the iCHORA 2020 presentation (delivered in English) and a separate but overlapping presentation by the same presenter, “Tejiendo redes para la “Biblioteca del futuro”: mecanización,... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was one of three Keynote Addresses delivered at ICHORA 2020. Tonia Sutherland (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) delivers a powerful set of analyses and messages about the role that ethics, agency, and consent should play in the circulation of images of human bodies and other digital remains, particularly those of African Americans,... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a two-person panel entitled "Digitization Under Duress." In “A Critical Analysis of the Representation of NARA’s INS Records in Ancestry’s Database Portal,” Dr. Katharina Hering (German Historical Institute and Independent Researcher) examines Ancestry.com and its digitization agreement with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), an agency of the... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Expanding Notions of Users and Use." With “Documenting Digital Knowledge Sharing in Indigenous Communities,” Diana Marsh (University of Maryland, College Park) examines the lack of Native and Indigenous perspectives on the circulation of digitized primary sources. Marsh asks probing questions in this study: How are... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Expanding Notions of Users and Use." Donald Force (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) explores the use of digital archival collections by historians in “Digital Archival Collections: Understanding their Use by Academic Historians.” While highlighting the ubiquitous nature of digital collections and their importance to scholarly historical writing,... Continue Reading →