Scientific Archives in the Age of Digitization
Scientific Archives in the Age of Digitization
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数字化时代的科学档案
作者：
B. Ogilvie
历史学家越来越多地使用数字材料，而且已经数字化。早期的数字化项目旨在对数据进行编码以进行系统分析；最近的项目试图以允许开放式历史调查的方式复制独特的档案材料，而无需前往档案馆和操纵实物。此类项目对于文件的保存和获取具有不可否认的好处。然而历史学家必须意识到数字化的范围、选择对材料进行数字化的原因以及数字化资源传播的限制。此外，来源和来源集合的一些物理方面在其数字拟像中丢失了。尽管如此，元数据的数字化和标准化为未来的档案研究和记录提供了重要的可能性。
Historians are increasingly working with material that is not only digital but has been digitized. Early digitization projects aimed to encode data for systematic analysis; more recent projects have sought to reproduce unique archival material in a manner that allows for open-ended historical inquiry without the need to travel to archives and manipulate physical objects. Such projects have undeniable benefits for the preservation of documents and access to them. Yet historians must be aware of the scope of digitization, the reasons why material is chosen to be digitized, and limitations on the dissemination of digitized sources. Furthermore, some physical aspects of sources, and of collections of sources, are lost in their digital simulacra. Nonetheless, digitization and the standardization of metadata offer significant possibilities for future archival research and documentation.