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Digital Archives of Science - Revisiting the Vestiges of Knowledge-Making

English · Hardback

Will be released 14.03.2026

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The archive of science is a place where scientific practices are sedimented in the form of drafts, protocols of rejected hypotheses and failed experiments, obsolete instruments and other vestiges. As science goes increasingly digital, so does its archive, opening up new ways of understanding the making of scientific knowledge for historians. Digital collections clearly differ from the traditional
lieux de mémoire
. What they store are not tangible and authentic objects, but data to be processed by computer algorithms. How do these digital infrastructures shape our encounter with the scientific past? What insights can we gain from the vestiges of science as they turn into data?

Positioned at the intersection of Science Studies, Media Studies, and Digital Humanities, this book critically examines digital archives of science as (new) infrastructures for the representation and production of memory and knowledge. Drawing on a large corpus of scientific collections across disciplines and combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, it explores the boundaries and possibilities that digital archives introduce for the history of science and technology.
 


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Alina Volynskaya
, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg.



Product details

Authors Alina Volynskaya
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 14.03.2026
 
EAN 9783119148221
ISBN 978-3-11-914822-1
No. of pages 305
Weight 500 g
Illustrations 58 b/w ill., 1 b/w tbl., Tabellen, schwarz-weiss, schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
Series Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History

Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, HISTORY / General, Bibliotheks-, Archiv- und Informationsmanagement, digitale Infrastruktur, digital infrastructure, Erste Hälfte 21. Jahrhundert (ca. 2000 bis ca. 2050), ca. 1940 bis ca. 1949, Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (ca. 1950 bis ca. 1999), Digitales Archiv, Digital Archive, Wissenschaftssammlung, scientific collection

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