[ecrea] Convergence: Special themed issue - Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices

Convergence: Special themed issue

Vol 21, no 1 (February 2015)



Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices



Guest Editors: Sarah Atkinson and Sarah Whatley



This special issue aims to bring together researchers, artists, 
professionals and practitioners from the field of digital archives and 
the archiving of practice with an emphasis upon Art, Design, Media, Film 
and Performing arts disciplines. It specifically aims to explore the 
affordances of digital technologies upon archival practices.



Within digital archival practices, there is a notable shift from the 
closed to the open and from the traditional single-user archive model to 
emerging multi-user, collaborative forms of archival practices and 
scholarship. The digital preservation and presentation of archival 
materials dramatically impacts upon the nature and notion of access. The 
types of discoveries, insights and findings that can be made through 
online digital interfaces can be radically altered.



The call for papers will invite contributions that focus on the widest 
range of digital archives (film, dance, sound, oral history etc), that 
consider national and international collections, which might focus on 
archival strategies, policy, copyright and education, and which consider 
technological aspects of digital archiving including the semantic web, 
analytics, meta-data, tagging and time-based meta-data.



The editors are particularly interested in encouraging submissions from 
a range of contexts, originating from academic research, policy making 
and from the archival professions. Contributions will be welcomed, but 
are not limited to, articles and pieces that address the following 
questions:



· How are digital archives changing our experience of the ‘live’?

· To what extent do digital archives ask us to re-evaluate the value of 
archival collections; how are digital archives altering our perception 
of the ‘archive’?

· What are the critical discourses and practices that help us make sense 
of the role and impact of digital archives in contemporary society?

· How do digital archival practices shift our view of the ‘archive’ and 
the ‘archivist’?

· How do digital archives participate in artistic practice?

· To what extent does the representation of art and artists in digital 
archives shift, diminish or support artists’ practice?

· What role does design play in the creation, curation and visualization 
of artistic practice in digital archives?

· To what extent do digital archives prompt us to reconsider the value, 
place and purpose of the archive in contemporary society?

· What role does the user have in constructing the archive?

· How do born and re-born digital archives contribute to the discourse 
of ephemerality and permanence in contemporary arts practice?

· What is the future of digital archives in contemporary arts practice?

· What are the nature and functions of the digital archive in education, 
research and scholarship?

· How can digital archives contribute to the notion of a digital public 
space?

· How can the consideration of digital archives and open archival 
practices most usefully contribute to the Open Source, Open Educational 
Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) movements?



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Standard articles will be in the range of 4000–8000 words. A more 
flexible approach may be possible for other formats and styles of 
submission (for example interviews, reports or reviews) so we encourage 
contributors to contact the Editors in the first instance to discuss 
their ideas prior to submission. Full details about how to submit are 
available here: http://con.sagepub.com

Submission of full papers to the Editors by February 28 2014.



The special issue will follow the Digital Echoes Symposium at Coventry 
University in January 2014. A call for papers for the Symposium will be 
issued shortly and confirmation of participation will be in November 
2013. Presenters at the Symposium will be invited to consider 
contributing developed papers for the special issue of the Journal.



All correspondence and submissions to both:

Sarah Atkinson (S.A.Atkinson /at/ brighton.ac.uk)

Sarah Whatley (s.whatley /at/ coventry.ac.uk)


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