Silence and Bias in Archives

The Basics: What are Archives? - Library - University of Hull

Critical analysis teaches us that we must consider subjectivity, bias and perspective when using archives for research. ... Archival Silences and ...

Silence in OCR: What Could Handwritten Documents Tell Us?

This discrepancy results in biases and underrepresentation in datasets, particularly affecting the accessibility and utility of handwritten documents from ...

"Archival silence" is shorthand for impt perspectives on bias ...

Karin Wulf (@karin.wulf). 1 Reply. 23 Likes. "Archival silence" is shorthand for impt perspectives on bias & erasure in archival collections ...

University of Washington Special Collections Anti-Racism Initiatives

In this eight minute video, archivist Dominique Luster describes the power of archives to “either uplift some or silence others.” Luster ...

Archives Are Not Neutral

https://libguides.library.ohio.edu/archives-speccollections/silences. Page 18 ... bias-in-library-and-archives-description/. “When processing (arranging ...

Panel: Confronting Our Inherent Biases: Their Impact on Collections ...

Join the University Libraries and the Office for Diversity and Inclusion at 1 p.m. today, Friday, Oct. 23, for the Archives Month panel ...

Critical Directions for Archival Approaches to Social Justice

Caswell is the author of Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia and more than two dozen articles on archives, human ...

Ethics in Archives: Discoverable Description and Accessible ...

The act of creating descriptions is definitely an ethical endeavor, and archivists must be aware of their own inevitably biased tendencies that inadvertently ...

Reflections on Community Archiving for Social Justice | SOURCE

Pennamon, Tiffany, and Sarah Coates. 2021. “Filling Archival Silences: Reflections on Community Archiving for Social Justice”. SOURCE: The ...

Big Data, DH, Gender: Silence in the Archives? - triproftri

Natalia Cecire storified the entire conversation for us, “From Archival Silence to Glorious Data.” And, possibly, an MLA panel has been borne ...

Identifying Unheard Voices: Exploring Bias

Exploring Bias Across the Information Continuum. Algorithmic Bias; Library Arrangement/ Organization; On Archival Silences; Everyday Information ...

Conceptualizing Records: Community Archives Describing ...

Like Anderson, Koorie archival studies scholar Shannon Faulkhead explores the sociocultural dimensions of the concept of a record but more fully ...

The Silence of the Archive - ALA Store

This new book provides a groundbreaking discussion of a major but little considered issue: Why do archives, sometimes seen as the repositories of truth, often ...

Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings

entific and personal biases. By recording Hemings as “information” in his farm book, Jefferson supposed that he might become merely an object of empirical ...

Archive and Library | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature

A growing number of scholars have described the potential for bias ... Marlene Manoff, “Mapping Archival Silence: Technology and the Historical ...

Acknowledging Archives (after Caswell) - Engaging Collections

... bias (mostly still reflecting dominant parts of ... (25) David Thomas, Simon Fowler, and Valerie Johnson, The Silence of the Archive.

Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive: An Interview ... - AAIHS

EO: To that end, you offer reading along the bias grain as a method for approaching archival fragments. What is reading along the bias grain and ...

Postcolonial Sound Archives: Challenges and Potentials. An ... - jstor

within archives, this scholarship has illustrated the biases and selective dynamics of archival collecting (see Trouillot 1995) . Further complexity is ...

Archival Silence - by Lindy Magiera - Medium

Archival silence is the idea that certain groups or people are underrepresented in archives. These are often also referred to as content ...

Anne Gilliland: Protecting Human Rights Through Record Keeping

... silences and absences in archives and the effects these might ... bias that is either baked into digital content or its representation ...