Using Digital Archives Successfully
7th Dec 2020 10:30am-12:00pm
To attend this course please book on Inkpath. Inkpath is an app available to all Techne students, if you're not already using please click here to find out how to get started.
With access to physical archives continuing to be difficult, this session will guide you through both the practicalities of finding and using digital archives, and how to critically engage with them as sources. Topics will include:
- why do archives digitise – and how does this affect the sources you’re likely to find
- understanding different types of digitisation project and how to search within them
- looking beyond the digitised image
- making the most of digital – computer-based analysis
- contemporary research using born-digital and web archives
This workshop will be led by Anna McNally from the University of Westminster. After studying Philosophy at BA, Anna qualified as an archivist in 2004, and worked at Tate Archive before joining the University of Westminster in 2009. Her role is focused on helping students to understand archives, and she has published several articles in this area. Since 2015, Anna has also been responsible for the China Visual Arts Project Archive.