Amalia S. Levi

Though technically not historians: Amitav Gosh's The Nutmeg's Curse, and Sara Johnson's Encyclopedie Noire are both stunning takes and writing on hist subjects.

Records manager, archivist, digital archivist

The Introduction to Digital Publishing Handbook from the Digital Library of the Caribbean offers a guide to creating and sharing text-based digital publications.

Read the handbook at dloc.com/AA00114845/0...

#DigitalPublishing #OpenAccess #dLOC #CaribbeanArchives

😂 Thanks, Karl--yes, after cutting back...in half.

Thanks, Haim!

📣 Officially submitted--all 450 pages of it!

My PhD dissertation titled "Dependent Lives In and Beyond Archives: Enslaved People in Sephardic Jewish Households in Early Modern Bridgetown, Barbados (1654-1800)."

Defense is being scheduled for December!

Great to see the emphasis on public engagement as a way of giving back to the community, in crowdsourcing projects.

Important point: building the time for it into the workplan.

Thank you, Jenny! :) I'll...survive these last hours ;)

Putting final touches to my dissertation and hope to submit it tomorrow, and I keep thinking that I can't thank enough all the amazing, awesome people behind @zotero.org not only for creating it, but also for sustaining! Such a huge service!

It'd be great if someone took pics of "endangered" signs and then added on an online map offering "alternative" trails with the scrubbed info. Maybe someone is already doing it, just wanted to put it out there.

😬 😣🫤 💪 Sorry you're subjected to this, Alex...

Beautiful archives and library infrastructure! 😍

(And lots of labor behind it!)

@shannonmattern.bsky.social

Not always, but often some records are deemed too fragile to handle, when actually this is used as a pretext to not make them accessible to users.

The "fragility" of records. 😏

Often used to hamper access...

I can imagine! Your approach is very relevant to one of the chapters of my dissertation, where a young man has been consistently described as "blind"--and maybe he was)--but the words of his father and his lived experience suggest differently. (And will now go back to the chapter to cite you :)).

Great discussion by @drjpw.bsky.social about ethical/methodological pitfalls of legacy descriptions of archival material, and the need to be sensitive to lived experience of marginalized people in the past.

Never a boring day in the archives! 🙃

Project Naming Explore the significance of Project Naming to decolonize archives and connect Inuit communities with their ancestral photographs.

How do we decolonise archives?

In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.

This looks amazing and can't wait for it!

Front cover of a book called 'Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources', part of the Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources series. edited by Laura Sangha and Jonathan Willis. The cover image is a painting of early modern objects - a pile of books and papers, a flask and glass, bread roll, lute and globe.

Editing revised chapters for the forthcoming 2nd edition of our guide to #EarlyModern 🗃️ sources today👌

The revised volume will also include 3 new chapters:

Part 1 'Sources':
- Digitised Sources

Part 2 'Histories':
- Race
- The Body, Mind & Emotions.

This is amazing!

📢GREAT RESOURCE📢

Stumbled on Carissa Chew's Inclusive Terminology Glossary, which collates information about historic & current usage of words related to race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, disability.

itg.nls.uk/wiki/Introdu...

screenshot of the table of contents. List of authors and titles: Yonatan Glazer-Eytan and Giuseppe Marcocci: "Material Culture and Early Modern Archivality: A Dialogue" Filippo de Vivo "A Cock for the Records: Posted Libels as Archival Objects" Suzanna Ivanič "Piecing Back the Puzzle: Objects, Inventories, and the Problem of Classification" Ana Struillou "Mobility, Material Culture, and the Archive: A View from the Mediterranean" Subah Dayal "Mughal Hands, Envelopes, and the Materiality of Trans-Imperial Archives" Anne T. Gerritsen "Kang Wang’s Helmet and the Archivality of Chinese Popular Religious Practice"

OOOO! The latest special issue for the Journal of #EarlyModern History is on Archives & Objects, a dialogue between the archival and material turn 🤩

Would you look at that ace table of contents 🤩

brill.com/view/journal...
#YayArchives! #HistArchives!

Article on BBC news. Title: AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs Description: Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪

The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.

That is *pure fantasy*.

Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

I've contributed an essay to this DEPENDENT issue:

"Archival Trajectories: Information Beyond Content"

It gives an overview of my PhD research that focuses on why we find what we find, i.e., the many recordkeeping and archival dependencies that underpin what is visible and accessible today.

Now also in English! Including eight stories by yours truly, about Rembrandt’s Black neighbours, Armenian merchants fighting at the stock market, indigenous Surinamese leaders in 17th century Amsterdam and more.

🤗 Thank you so much for reading!

Probably a study written by people who have never set foot in an achives, thus are totally oblivious that the *vast* majority of...history isn't digitized, has minimal descriptions, often is 'hidden' etc. etc. etc.

O--and no "history" is complete if it doesn't account for what's missing and why...

Knowledge infrastructures we rely upon today reflect and perpetuate dependencies and technologies of imperial power and colonial control.

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