All faculty interested in interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration are invited to join this new workgroup, Digital Methodologies for Print Culture and Archives. The first orientation meeting will take place 2-3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 202 Rhatigan Student Center, Shocker 70 Room.
The workgroup explores participatory digital archives as an evolving landscape of research infrastructure situated between digital humanities and digital cultural heritage. Participants will focus on how changing conditions, technologies and scales of participation are shaping the ways archival material is collected, structured, shared and interpreted.
The group is particularly attentive to preservation practices of printed matter produced in regions and contexts shaped by linguistic diversity and fragmented archival practices, where print production is inherently decentralized. The group explores heritage infrastructures in digital humanities as cultural, political and methodological systems.
The group aims to share methodologies, identify needs and explore collaborative possibilities across disciplines. Together, participants will have the opportunity to examine existing platforms and practices and begin shaping a collaborative research direction that connects print culture, archival work and digital methodologies.
