Archival Materialities in a Digital Age

Eirini Goudarouli is Head of Research at The National Archives, UK, where she leads an interdisciplinary team of experts. She has extensive experience in leading research and engagement programmes and in building impactful research collaborations and networks. Her passion is to drive innovation that enables new ideas for broadening our current understanding of collections and their discoverability through ground-breaking research, safe and responsible use of emerging technologies, interdisciplinary collaborations and knowledge-exchange initiatives. Eirini has published extensively, especially within the space of Digital Cultural Heritage. Recent publications include the contribution 'Digital Innovation and Archival Thinking', in Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction (2023, eds Andrew Prescott and Alison. Wiggins).Andrew Prescott is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. From 1979-2000, he was Curator in the Department of Manuscripts, British Library. He has also worked in digital humanities units and libraries at the University of Sheffield, University of Wales Lampeter and King's College London. From 2012-2019, he was Theme Lead Fellow for the AHRC strategic theme Digital Transformations. He was recently a co-investigator on the People of 1381 project. Recent publications include Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Projects (2020, with Simon Popple and Daniel Mutibwa) and Archives: Power, Truth and Fiction (2023, with Alison Wiggins).

• IntroductionConceptualising Digital Materiality in the Archive1: Valerie Johnson: Exploring the Digital Analogue Archive2: Alison Wiggins: Digital Materiality and Early Modern Archives3: Katy Mair: Losing Touch? Changing Experiences of Archival Materiality4: Alex Green and Tom Storrar: Intangible Materiality5: Thorsten Ries: Digital History and Born-Digital Archives: Digital Forensic Dimensions6: Lora Angelova: Patch and Repair: Evolving Understandings of Material in the Conservation Studio7: Andrew Prescott: 7. Electric Ink and Arduinos: The Internet of Things and the ArchiveDigital Explorations of Archival Materiality8: Philippa Hoskin and Elizabeth New: Making an Impression: Digital Investigation of Palm Prints on Medieval Wax Seals9: Lotte Fikkers and David Mills: The Ward 16 Manuscripts: Towards Digitisation without Disruption10: Karl Burgess, Gerard Carruthers, Craig Lamont, James Newton, George Smith, and Ronnie Young: Robert Burns: Archival Aspects of the Printed and Manuscript Record in the Digital Age11: Maryanne Dever, Jacqueline Lorber Kasunic, and Kate Sweetapple: Surfacing the Page: Experimental Visualisation and the Writing Process12: Lorna Hughes: Co-creation and the Digital Archive: Unlocking Historic Archives and Records through New Approaches to Mass Digitisation13: Juan Carlos Covelli Reyes: New Materiality and the Digital ArtefactAfterword