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This. Also: - Very (very!) little of archives is digitized (let alone datafied) - Information is not always in what's written but between the lines - Context of a document's creation, preservation, transmission is crucial. No AI can access + understand humanity's memory for the forseeable future.

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Periodic PSA 🙃: Reminder that whenever you "discover" something at the archives, it's been made available to you through the physical and intellectual labor of archivists.

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"a true social theory of archives requires not just analyses of papers or people but also interrogations of process, place, and power." Jarrett Drake, "Blood at the Root" elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol8/is...

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Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

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This is simply unbelievable. Anyone and everyone I had ever interacted with at NEH were passionate, selfless individuals that worked truly for the greater good. What a loss...

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Now I need to find a reason to visit Buckinghamshire Archives! Great job @bucksarchives.bsky.social showing all your exciting collections!

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If you write abt 'the archive' but don't engage with or acknowledge archival studies literature ... please know that your arguments ▪️have no to limited validity ▪️remain theoretical, oblivious to arch praxis ▪️lack understanding and depth ▪️don't account for the infrastructure/materiality of archives

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A timeline cleanse: Here's a short, image-filled essay of mine in @aeon.co about why black holes and sea monsters have something in common. 1/2 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #arthistory aeon.co/essays/how-b...

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If you write abt 'the archive' but don't engage with or acknowledge archival studies literature ... please know that your arguments ▪️have no to limited validity ▪️remain theoretical, oblivious to arch praxis ▪️lack understanding and depth ▪️don't account for the infrastructure/materiality of archives

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Catch us next week at this year’s ACURIL conference in Curaçao 🇨🇼! We will be offering a beginner-level workshop on digital humanities on Monday, June 9th at 3:30 PM in the Royal Ballroom. More info on this year’s conference available here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Reimagining cataloging "not as a disciplinary apparatus that enforces authorized meanings, but as an emancipatory practice... Not as a technology of control, but as an infrastructure of possibility." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g...

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⬇️ This 1,000 times!!! All the fun is in the archives! Why would anyone want to "solve" that? 😈

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"Building on provenancial fabulation, which accounts for the ways relationships are created and imaginaries function..., crip provenance draws specific attention to absences, messiness, and the impossibility of knowing a complete disability history." elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol9/is...

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"You can’t take it with you, yet we often feel ourselves immortal and act as if we can." Thank you for this beautiful post.

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Superbly written article about reconciling the digitization of sources with their materiality with a focus to "the many ways in which the creation of sources shape their potential use." By @bhamhistory.bsky.social and @emilymayvine.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Underneath every archival document there's an ocean of information beyond the text on the page: how it was created; copied; recopied; moved; stored; conserved; microfilmed; digitized; put online, and myriad other processes. To tell the whole story, it matters how and why we access information.

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Pleased to have contributed this article about 'Ariadne', an enslaved girl in 19th c. Barbados. It explores the methodological + epistemological issues of using colonial records of violence from the Caribbean for life writing about the enslaved. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GYMFT...

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Yay! Go @dependencybonn.de ! Congrats to all for the great work, honored to be among you.

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The latest from @amaliasl.bsky.social will be of interest to the #FreedomSeekers community. Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Pleased to have contributed this article about 'Ariadne', an enslaved girl in 19th c. Barbados. It explores the methodological + epistemological issues of using colonial records of violence from the Caribbean for life writing about the enslaved. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GYMFT...

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One of the bedrocks of digital preservation is institutional commitment. All of this thread is a masterclass in how this can be eroded.

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😍 👏 Awesome work and use of funding + tech + human expertise.

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😍 Love to see global connections through the materiality of books and records!

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@yaelrice.bsky.social and I co-authored this piece precisely to combat misguided work like this so people don't have to constantly rehearse the arguments about why it's specious. We laid it all out here for you! hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

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🤣 "permanent" 🤣 digital records...

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All this thread.

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Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚

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Both the #NEH and #IMLS have had immeasurable impact in the US & the world, because - their staff works tirelessly & altruistically - awardees produce exceptional work - projects spearhead/sustain communities - ROI is greater by orders of magnitude to amount given. So sad to see them decimated.

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Thankfully, nature blooms despite humankind.

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Who were the sailors and soldiers who left for Brazil, Caribbean islands, Africa and New York in the service of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) in the #17thcentury? Until recently we didn't know much about them, thanks to the new database #wicopvarenden, this will change.

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"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...

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