Traces of humanity: Echoes of social and cultural experience in physical objects and digital surrogates in the University of Victoria Libraries

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dc.contributor.authorLanning, Robbyn
dc.contributor.authorBengtson, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-04T19:09:40Z
dc.date.available2016-10-04T19:09:40Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016-04-15
dc.description.abstractThe relationships between primary source materials and their digital surrogates warrant consideration about how different materials translate into digitized forms. Physical primary source materials found in library special collections and archives and their digital surrogates challenge the viewer to consider what these objects are communicating through their materiality or lack thereof. For example, how does a clay tablet represent itself digitally, as compared to a parchment manuscript, or a paper accounts book? What qualities, stories or narratives do these resources communicate in their original forms, as digital surrogates, or when engaged with together, and how do these differ? How do both physical and digital resources serve as archival objects with the ability to reflect our social and cultural experiences—and indeed our humanity—back to us? As more and more library and museum resources are digitized and made open to researchers, such questions must be addressed as the use and reuse of digital surrogates becomes increasingly complex as digital scholarship evolves.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.citationGordon Lanning, R., & Bengtson, J. B. (2016). Traces of humanity: Echoes of social and cultural experience in physical objects and digital surrogates in the University of Victoria Libraries. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 3(1), 1163042. http://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2016.1163042en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2016.1163042
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7591
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCogent Arts and Humanitiesen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectDigital Humanitiesen_US
dc.subjectDigital Librariesen_US
dc.subjectDigitizationen_US
dc.subjectMaterialityen_US
dc.subjectMaterial Cultureen_US
dc.subjectSpecial Collectionsen_US
dc.subjectArchivesen_US
dc.subjectCollective Memoryen_US
dc.subjectLibrariesen_US
dc.subjectVisual Studiesen_US
dc.subject.departmentUniversity of Victoria Libraries
dc.titleTraces of humanity: Echoes of social and cultural experience in physical objects and digital surrogates in the University of Victoria Librariesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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