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When Is A Source Not a Source?
- Author(s):
- Sarah Werner (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- LLC 16th-Century English, LLC 17th-Century English, LLC Shakespeare, TC Digital Humanities, TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
- Subject(s):
- British literature, Digital humanities
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- Stanford Primary Source Symposium: The Phenomenology of the Source
- Conf. Org.:
- Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University
- Tag(s):
- bibliography, textual studies, digital facsimiles, Early modern studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6PG6F
- Abstract:
- Nearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital facsimiles for some uses, and manuscripts and print for others. But we also need to recognize that digital facsimiles are objects in and of themselves—they are not surrogates, but primary sources for our research. In this paper, I will explore the terms through which we can discuss digitizations as primary sources, argue for the importance of recognizing them as such, and outline a series of questions we can ask of the images and platforms we use to identify and interrogate them as sources in their own right.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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