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Building on sand: provenance, digitization, and Tennessee archives

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Title	Building on sand: provenance, digitization, and Tennessee archives
Author	Lundell, Amy Rebecca
Date	2010
Coverage	20th century
Publisher	Middle Tennessee State University
Place of Publication	Murfreesboro, TN
Description	A history thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Arts
Abstract	Today's archivists are focusing on the digitization of analog records and placing them online. In their haste to provide these digital surrogates to online researchers, archivists are omitting important contextual information: provenance and original order. As these two principles form the foundation of archival theory and practice, the author has concerns about the effect that the omission of these principles has on the usefulness of records and the understanding of those who use them tor research. The author examines the current literature of both the use of archival records by researchers, especially historians, and the contextualization of digital surrogates, finding that the majority focuses on the how-to aspects of digitization and is relatively silent on the issue of including information about provenance and original order. The author also analyses the online web presence of archives in the state of Tennessee (local government and four-year public university archives). In addition, she compares the individual websites with the corresponding submissions by these institutions to the multi-institutional online database Volunteer Voices...
Physical Description	vi, 89 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm
Series	History Department, M.T.S.U.
Subject-LCSH	Archival materials -- Digitization -- Tennessee Archives -- Processing
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Genre	Thesis
Medium	Paper
Extent	97 p
Language	eng
Copyright Status	Copyright protected. Reproduced with permission of the author.
Conditions for use	Copyright maintained by author. Academic and personal use only.
Contributing Institution	James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Source file	ht_lundell.pdf

Building on sand: provenance, digitization, and Tennessee archives

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