Essays about: "institutional digitization"

Found 2 essays containing the words institutional digitization.

1. 1. Digitizing a minority and its history : A study in accessibility and digitization in Jewish cultural heritage collections and Holocaust memory

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

   Author : Jacob Leimar; [2023]
   Keywords : Digital cultural heritage; Jewish history; Holocaust memory; vulnerability; institutional digitization; GLAM;

   Abstract : For the last thirty years Swedish institutions, both on governmental and foundational level, have seeked to illuminate the horrors of the Holocaust and antisemitism. A part in this was collection of testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust as to save first-hand accounts from an aging population of survivors. READ MORE

3. 2. “We Were Called Low-Grades” : Current Archival Approaches to the Digitization and Dissemination of Eugenics Collections

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

   Author : Georgia Gilbert Gladitz; [2022]
   Keywords : Digitization; Eugenics Collections; Access and Care; Digital Knowledge Dissemination; Difficult Histories; Archival Methodologies; Statens institut för rasbiologi; The Wellcome Library; The Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement; The Canadian Eugenics Archive;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the current methodological approaches to digital access and dissemination of eugenics archives. It looks in-depth at four institutions from around the world which provide some means of digital access to a specific eugenics collection that they control: the Wellcome Collection within the Wellcome Library in London, the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement founded in part by the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York, the Canadian Eugenics Archive, and the State Institute for Race Biology at the Uppsala University Library Special Collections in Sweden. READ MORE