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. The 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014), pp. 1-8. [Article]

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Abstract or Description

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:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1145/2660168.2660171

Keywords:

Musicology, concerts, digital archives, digital humanities, ephemera, linked data, open data, performance history

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Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Music

Dates:

DateEvent
30 July 2014Accepted
12 September 2014Published

Event Location:

London, United Kingdom

Date range:

12 Sept 2014

Item ID:

20487

Date Deposited:

04 Jul 2017 15:32

Last Modified:

29 Apr 2020 16:27

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/20487

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