Authority and judgement in the digital archive

Alan Dix; Rachel Cowgill; Christina Bashford; Simon McVeigh; Rupert Ridgewell

doi:10.1145/2660168.2660171

Authority and judgement in the digital archive

Alan Dix, Rachel Cowgill, Christina Bashford, Simon McVeigh, Rupert Ridgewell

Music

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-8
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3002-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2660168.2660171
Publication status	Published - 12 Sept 2014

Keywords

Concerts
Digital archives
Digital humanities
Ephemera
Linked data
Musicology
Open data
Performance history

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