Raiding the Archive

What’s an Archive?

Posted in archive, faculty academy, umwfa08 on May 12th, 2008 No Comments »

If history is told by the winner, then the archive is the evidence for that story.

An archive, as defined by Wikipedia, refers to…
…a collection of historical records, and also refers to the location in which these records are kept.[1]
Archives are made up of records (AKA primary source documents) which have been accumulated over the [...]

Obstacles of traditional archives

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The Internet Archive

Posted in archive, faculty academy, umwfa08 on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »

The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line library and archive of Web and multimedia resources. Located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, this archive includes “snapshots of the World Wide Web” (archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time), software, movies, books, and audio [...]

Organizational Publishing Archive

Posted in archive, faculty academy, umwfa08 on May 5th, 2008 No Comments »

What are some examples of organizational archives? Well, Wikipedia offers an excellent an List of Archives.
The Library of Congress Archive

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The UMW Archive
The UMW Centennial on Flickr

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The UMW Centennial Blog

Duke University’s Year Look on Flickr

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Personal Publishing Archive

Posted in archive, faculty academy, umwfa08 on May 5th, 2008 No Comments »

So given the definition of an archive as an “records which have been accumulated over the course of an individual or organization’s lifetime,” then the obvious question is where is your personal archive? For example, where is the record of your work here at UMW over the last X years?
Some examples of personal publishing [...]