How to use online community archives for digital research /
This How-to Guide provides a brief introduction to a few digital community archives and offers a general outline of how to conduct digital research and scholarship using these types of archival collections. Readers will gain a general overview of the evolving nature of community archives as a theore...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications, Ltd.,
2022.
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| Series: | SAGE research methods: doing research online
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This How-to Guide provides a brief introduction to a few digital community archives and offers a general outline of how to conduct digital research and scholarship using these types of archival collections. Readers will gain a general overview of the evolving nature of community archives as a theoretical concept and also a set of practicing principles that may vary across time, place, and communities. While community archives can include both physical and digital records, this guide focuses on the digital and online nature of stewarding, preserving, caring for, and using community-created and community-based archival records. Four key elements of digital archival research include identifying the scope of a collection to align with areas of research, locating and distinguishing community archives from other collections, and accessing community archival records. But even with these elements in mind, certain limitations will still arise when seeking these types of collections and records. As the field of study continues to grow and change, this guide offers emerging researchers' valuable insights into how and why these types of archival records, collections, and work matter. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781529609820 1529609828 |