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David Boder: From Wire Recordings to Website

As historians, we are confronted with an abundance of data in digital form that can be searched, annotated, analysed, presented and reused with the help of a broad array of digital tools.

But what do we know about how digital technology affects the artefactual and informational value of a source?

When looking through the lens of source criticism to digitized and digital born sources, there are so many mediating processes going on before a source can appear on our screen that historians run the risk of getting detached from the original context of the source.

The basis of this lesson David Boder: From Wire Recordings to Website are the recordings that David Boder made in 1946 in order to preserve the history of the Holocaust. These recordings of interviews conducted with a wire recorder were made newly available when the interviews were digitised and published online in 2009.

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Stefania Scagliola and Cristina Garcia Martin (2018). David Boder: From Wire Recordings to Website. Version 1.0.0. Edited by Stefania Scagliola, Gerben Zaagsma and Sarah Cooper. ranke2lu. [Training module]. https://ranke2.uni.lu/u/boder/

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Title:
David Boder: From Wire Recordings to Website
Authors:
Stefania Scagliola
Domain:
Social Sciences and Humanities
Language:
en
Published to DARIAH-Campus:
3/16/2021
Originally published:
10/18/2018
Content type:
Training module
Licence:
CCBY 4.0
Sources:
Ranke2.lu
Topics:
Source Criticism, Repositories & Collections, Multimodality, History of Technology
Version:
1.0.0