Archives and Writing Lives

《档案与写作生活》考虑了我们如何在数字时代访问和分析手写历史文献，以及未来的下一步行动。近几十年来，由于网络和数字化，我们使用档案资源的方式发生了深刻的变化。档案资源包括信件、清单、法律文件、收据、工资清单和财务账户。然而，许多挑战依然存在。档案中的大片区域，实际上是大多数历史文件，仍然没有阅读和分析。此外，在某些方面，网络可以简单地说是复制了某些较旧的研究范式，而不是改变它们。这个项目问我们下一步应该优先考虑什么？我们如何让鲜为人知和从未读过的档案材料重现生机，并揭示它们过去生活的痕迹？《档案与写作生活》聚焦于早期现代手写档案资源，这是一种特别具有挑战性的档案材料类别，数量庞大，而且出了名的难以破译和解释。该项目将有力地支持并说明以下好处：(1)合作和跨学科的工作模式，以促进知识进步；(2)数字学术转变研究和广泛交流研究成果的潜力；(3)通过分析妇女生活的来源将取得的特别成果，其中包括对更广泛的历史叙述的新见解和更准确的版本。该项目的调查结果将有可能影响今后如何利用和解释档案的议程。该项目将开发一套开放获取的研究出版物，与创新的数字成果一起并与之链接，这些出版物将在未来许多年成为该领域的参考点。《档案与写作生活》围绕三个研究主题组织，这三个主题贯穿始终：数字学术如何改变档案研究？对于研究主题1，贝丝·哈德威克的金融账户，1548-1601，PI将出版一个互动的网络版，免费和公开在线可用，以前未发表的查茨沃斯大厦和哈德威克大厅的财务账户，以壮观和引人注目的细节呈现一个伊丽莎白时代宏伟家庭的日常来往。网络版的核心数据将同时与EMMO项目(福尔格·莎士比亚图书馆)和美狄亚项目共享和托管，以开发国际研究项目中历史财务账户的数字编辑方法。对于研究主题2，苏格兰女王玛丽1550-1587年的信件和文件，PI将免费并在网上公开出版一份C.800往来于苏格兰女王玛丽的信件和文件目录。自1844年以来没有编辑过的苏格兰女王的信件提供了最有力的案例之一，可以将分析的重点重新转移到档案材料上，以便对历史和政治形势做出更现实和准确的描述。国际和平组织将与WEMLO和EMLO项目(牛津Bodleian图书馆)合作并共享数据，以托管Letter目录，并制定建模和共享元数据的方法。对于研究主题3，早期现代档案馆和数字转型，国际档案馆将领导一系列活动、讲习班和研讨会，并编辑一本关于档案馆的重要合编书籍的单独章节，这本书将汇集学术研究人员、档案馆和图书馆专业人员、数字开发者、机构政策制定者、第三部门人员、表演者和公众。通过这些活动，国际档案馆将为一系列潜在的档案用户创造机会，让他们了解当今早期现代档案源所提出的实际挑战以及兴趣和机会。

Archives and Writing Lives considers how we access and analyse handwritten historical documents in the digital age and the next steps for the future. The way we use archival sources - which include letters, inventories, legal documents, receipts, wage lists and financial accounts - has undergone profound change in recent decades as a result of the web and digitisation. Yet many challenges remain. Vast areas of the archive, in fact most historical documents, remain unread and unanalysed. Furthermore, in certain respects, the web could be said simply to replicate certain older research paradigms, rather than transform them. This project asks where should our priorities lie next? How do we bring to life lesser-known and never-read archival materials and shed light on their traces of past lives? Archives and Writing Lives focuses its spotlight on Early Modern handwritten archival sources, which are an especially challenging category of archival material, being both voluminous in quantity and notoriously difficult to decipher and interpret. This project will argue forcefully for and will illustrate the benefits of: (1) collaborative and inter-disciplinary models of working in order to progress knowledge; (2) the potential of digital scholarship to transform research and to communicate research findings widely; (3) the particular gains to be made through analysis of sources for women's lives, which include fresh insights and more accurate versions of the broader historical narrative. The findings of this project will have the potential to shape the agenda for how archives are used and interpreted in the future. The project will develop a suite of open-access research publications alongside and linked to innovative digital outputs, which will stand as reference points within the field for many years to come.Archives and Writing Lives is organised around three Research Themes that address the question that runs as a thread throughout: how does digital scholarship change archival research? For Research Theme 1, Bess of Hardwick's Financial Accounts, 1548-1601, the PI will publish an interactive web-edition, freely and openly available online, of previously unpublished Chatsworth House and Hardwick Hall financial accounts that present in spectacular and compelling detail the everyday comings and goings of a grand Elizabethan household. The core data from the web-edition will simultaneously be shared with and hosted by the EMMO Project (Folger Shakespeare Library) and MEDEA Project to develop methods for digital editing of historical financial accounts across international research projects. For Research Theme 2, The Letters and Documents of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1550-87, the PI will publish, freely and opening online, a catalogue of c.800 letters and documents to and from Mary, Queen of Scots. Unedited since 1844, the Scottish Queen's letters offer one of the most powerful cases for shifting the focus of analysis back to the archival materials in order to produce more realistic and accurate portrayals of the historical and political situation. The PI will collaborate with and share data with the WEMLO and EMLO Projects (Bodleian Library, Oxford) to host the letter catalogue and develop methods for modelling and sharing metadata. For Research Theme 3, Early Modern Archives and Digital Transformations, the PI will lead a series of events, workshops and seminars, and edit a distinct section of a major co-edited book on Archives, that will bring together academic researchers, archive and library professionals, digital developers, institutional policy-makers, third sector personnel, performers and the public. Through these events, the PI will create opportunities for a range of potential archive users to engage with questions about the practical challenges, as well as the interests and opportunities, presented today by early modern archival sources.