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<font face="Arial">Hello Martha and fellow colleagues,<br>
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This discussion is of particular interest to me. As I work in an
archives within an museum, archives are more likely to be seen not just
as source of (legal, administrative or historical) information, but
also as objects with their own lives and intrinsic value. This subject
is starting to receive more and more attention from archivists and
other professionals dealing with information management. Archives are
also objetcs which have a function in people"s lives, just as a fork or
a table. Damage, or deterioration of a document, such as a photograph,
can be seen as just another stage in the life of a document. <br>
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I hope I can contribute later on.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Martha Langford a écrit :
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<pre wrap="">Hello everyone,
I'd like to pick up on Alison's questions about materiality and place.
Could we talk, at least briefly, about the photographic image found on
line. Are photographic archivists seeing a general loss of interest in
the original material form of the object? And if so, does that sever the
link to use in time and place that Alison is raising?
Here at Concordia, a number of us are spending the fall trying to answer
the question: What Do We Owe the Object? Digitizing the photograph
disseminates an image with gains and losses. One recurring puzzle: the
digitized image can be inspected in ways that it never was in its
original context. Is this a gain or a loss?
Off to school.
Martha
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