Layers of information in an archival document: - What is said - What is not said - What is alluded to - What is omitted intentionally (and unintentionally) - What is misleading - What is ambiguous - What is highlighted - What is downplayed - What is weaponized - What is unintelligible today ... - ThreadSky

amaliasl.bsky.social • 126 days ago

Layers of information in an archival document:

- What is said
- What is not said
- What is alluded to
- What is omitted intentionally
(and unintentionally)
- What is misleading
- What is ambiguous
- What is highlighted
- What is downplayed
- What is weaponized
- What is unintelligible today
...

Comments

paulecohen.bsky.social•125 days ago

Brilliant! may I use this (with attribution) in my undergraduate "What Is History" class?

amaliasl.bsky.social•125 days ago

Thank you, Paul. Yes, please do so. If you want a lengthier piece, I've written something you might find useful.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111187846-010/html

paulecohen.bsky.social•125 days ago

thank you for sharing this, I look forward to reading it -- from the looks of it, my grad students this past fall fall would have loved to engage with this piece!

fionatribe.bsky.social•125 days ago

This is SO good, Amalia.

amaliasl.bsky.social•125 days ago

🙏 Thank you for reading.

fidelioscabinet.bsky.social•123 days ago

📌

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•124 days ago

This is wonderful. I'm struck by the tacit methodological knowledge of trained historians, a glimpse of which appears here in a way that gives a sense of how deep and broad that expertise is, and that doesn't often get spelled out so vividly.

amaliasl.bsky.social•124 days ago

🙏 Thank you for reading.

There's so much more to say that don't fit in a post :)

See also here an older relevant post:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kzl46e5e7pjfynhkko2g236z/post/3ld5agbxkec2w

heartisthecompass.bsky.social•115 days ago

It's also a lovely primer into Critical Thinking strategies.

rhizomic.bsky.social•82 days ago

We're planning on citing this in the introduction of a paper on differential power analysis applied to cryptographic side-channel attacks. One of the documents we're looking at with your taxonomy is Intel's processor architecture documentation. It's a good fit.

amaliasl.bsky.social•82 days ago

That's awesome, Barry. Do keep in touch as this develops, would love to know more.
Also, here is a recent piece I've written that might have something of use to you: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111187846-010/html