Venkat Srinivasan: We need to push ahead for efforts in nurturing archives

peter.suber's bookmarks 2022-11-24

Summary:

"In 2009-2010, I was actively thinking about and doing scientific work during the day, conducting interviews after hours and over lunch, and doing my own writing over evenings and weekends. In hindsight, it was a formative period for me and led me to thinking critically about the form and content of archives going forward. I started to develop some basic ideas for the structure of an archive with interconnections to oral history interviews, publicly accessible information, and some methods to democratise description of historical objects. Of course, these are ideas that see parallels across generations, and one is merely building on others’ work. Again, I had luck on my side and was able to connect with the oral historian and archivist, Indira Chowdhury, in ~2012 and she was the one who very kindly connected me to NCBS, where I am now based. I was new to archiving then, and found the archiving community to be extraordinarily welcoming. I am so grateful that archivists from across the world shared ideas and material and really trained me in the past decade...."

Link:

https://openinterview.org/2022/11/23/venkat-srinivasan-we-need-to-push-ahead-for-efforts-in-nurturing-archives/

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oa.new oa.interviews oa.people oa.repositories oa.preservation oa.ch oa.glam oa.archives

Date tagged:

11/24/2022, 13:58

Date published:

11/24/2022, 08:58