Authority and Judgement in the Digital Archive

Dix, Alan, Cowgill, Rachel, Bashford, Christina, McVeigh, Simon and Ridgewell, Rupert (2014) Authority and Judgement in the Digital Archive. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology Workshop (DLfM 2014), ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries Conference. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series . City University, London, pp. 33-40.

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Abstract

The transformative promise of the digital humanities is not without problems. This paper looks at digital archive curation using a database of 19th-century London concerts as a case study. We examine some of the barriers faced in its development, related to expertise, volume and complexity, the gap between cost and benefit, and the desire for an authoritative and complete dataset that forces a particular linear process of curation. We explore the potential for more radical approaches where curation and use are interleaved, and where digitally maintained provenance allows professional judgement to be applied to incomplete, crowdsourced, or automatically processed data.

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Musicology, performance history, digital archives, digital humanities, ephemera, concerts, linked data, open data.
Subjects:	M Music and Books on Music > M Music
Schools:	School of Music, Humanities and Media
Related URLs:	Organisation Conference Author
Depositing User:	Rachel Cowgill
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2014 14:19
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2017 13:45
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/21440

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