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Magdalena Wiśniewska - Digital community archives - selected examples
The text starts with deliberations on understanding the term "digital community archive"; the author presents an open catalogue of levels and types
of digitization that occur in grassroots documenting initiatives, which shows complexity of the matter. In its next part the article shows a short
description of the ways archival materials are presented on-line by following community archives: the KARTA Center, Topographies - Association of
Citizen Initiatives in Łód (Miastograf - Digital Archive of Łódź) and Archive and Museum of Polish Pre-war Students' Associations. In this
article the author stresses the unsatisfying manner of archival description put on the Internet by such initiatives, and at the same time - the
high value of these materials. She puts more research questions on the subject: what happens to historical sources when a grassroots initiative
ceases to exist? What is the place of grassroots digitizing initiatives that possess no original archival materials, but only copies?
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