Beyond the Walls and Changing the Space of Archive Through the Lens of The Adler Museum of Medicine in South Africa

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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Beyond the Walls and Changing the Space of Archive Through the Lens of The Adler Museum of Medicine in South Africa
Original language description
Drawing from the Adler Museum of Medicine in South Africa, this paper briefly provides an overview of the Center’s, functions and policies that governs the archives housed at the museum. The paper examines how archival practice through digitization strengthens or undermines provenance and original order. It analyses the migration to digitization of objects, the procedures, conditions, and reasons that influence the choice to include or exclude medical archives, and how they incorporate these insights into their digital archives’ design, functionality, and affordance. Based on oral history, archival sources, documentaries, and interviews in South Africa, this paper argues that since COVID-19, the medical museum archives are simultaneously trying to digitize their holdings and maintain the physical originals. However, there are ethical concerns on digitalization and concerns amongst Archives and Records Management (ARM) practitioners about a coming digital dark age: a phenomenon where a significant amount of crucial archival information is lost due to both rapid digitization of information and lack of reliable long-term preservation methods
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Archives of Science: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century
ISBN
979-8-9926888-3-2
Number of pages of the result
10
Pages from-to
40-49
Number of pages of the book
218
Publisher name
University of California Health Humanities Press
Place of publication
California, USA
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