Hi and welcome! I’m Shulin Hu.
I graduated from Communication University of China and currently is a master student in University College London, majoring in Digital Humanities.
This blog is about the management of digital archives. More specifically, I will show how the galleries or archival museums manage the electronic content in a proper and efficient way by using different approaches. Although I’m not from a professional background of archive, within the research process I gradually found that there are many interesting ideas included in these digitization projects, which may provide lots of inspirations for further research or working. Different institutions may choose various storage systems and commercial models according to diverse needs. I mainly use three cases as my backup: The Parliament Archives, Tate Galleries and Dorset History Centre and analyze them separately, in order to dig out the rationales of why the staff choose this method and how they adapt to the new workflow. My goal is to explain this topic from an understandable way and let those people who have few background like me to learn the detailed knowledge in managing and preserving digital archives.
Critically speaking, my blog may be weak in firsthand surveys, since I have not interviewed the staff working in museums or galleries in real-life nowadays. Fortunately, the cases I choose are not outdated. So many findings in this project are likely to offer new perspectives for the archivists who have a desire to transform their roles from traditional manager to modern digital curator.
All my data and concepts are from the academic papers or relevant websites. You can check the links of references if you want to know more about certain point. Feel free to cite sentences or apply the framework of this blog. (Licensing scheme)
Hope you have a happy experience when reading it and glad to receive any questions or suggestions for me!