Hearing Voices in the Archive: Wartime Correspondence and the Road to Expanded Source Criticism

Milan Lange, van

doi:10.5281/zenodo.13168708

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This abstract was written as a contribution to the workshop 'Exploring Historical War Experiences through Digital Sources and Methodologies' organised by Tampere Univerisity, Finland, 23-24 May 2024. This contribution reflects on digital transformations and the ‘analog’ provenance of historical archival collections of so-called ‘egodocuments’. The increasing availability and usage of digital-born or digitised records in historical scholarship has created a momentum to critically reflect on transformative interactions with(in) the archive that are crucial to doing (digital) historical research. A recently digitised wartime letters collection (1935-1950), held by the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, serves as a case study to illustrate a need to expand current practices of source criticism in historical scholarship in the digital age.

Original language	English
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13168708
Publication status	Published - 2024

Keywords

Source Criticism
Archival Studies
Archival transformations
Personal correspondence
Egodocuments
Digitisation
Records Continuum Model
Provenance
Curatorial Voice
World War II collections

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Historical War Experiences and the Archivist’s Voice in the Digital Age
Lange, van, M. & de Raaij, A., 25 Jun 2024, Amsterdam: NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, 1 p. (NIOD blog).
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Hearing Voices in the Archive: Wartime Correspondence and the Road to Expanded Source Criticism
Lange, van, M. (Speaker)
23 May 2024
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