Abstract
This chapter explores the possibilities of the digital archive, using as a case study the project to digitise the vast Kaldor Public Art Projects (KPAP) archive. This case study entails consideration of the intentions of the KPAP organisation in commissioning a digital archive: to make the extraordinary store of archived materials easily available to the public; and to create a living archive, in which historical materials may be made available for referencing and creative re-use by contemporary artists, writers and researchers. Decisions on editing, redaction, censorship, privacy and copyright of archive materials were made during the construction of the digital archive: these decisions and deliberations are discussed.
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Anthony Bond, ‘An Australian Odyssey: Connecting to International Contemporary Art’, p. 25.
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Robert Ellis Smith, Ben Franklin’s Website (2004), p. 8.
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Jordan Robertson, ‘NSA Spying Shows Perils of Apps’, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 January 2014, p. 16. I consider the implications for privacy in the internet age, in more detail, in The New Time and Space, pp. 113–129.
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Julia Fioretti, ‘Google Starts to Block Search Results after Privacy Ruling’, Sydney Morning Herald, 28–29 June 2014, p. 44.
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New York Times editorial cited by Jeffrey Toobin, ‘The Solace of Oblivion’, The New Yorker, 29 September 2014, p. 28.
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Karen Kissane, ‘At Last, a Reporter’s Insight into Life under the “criminal-in-chief”’, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 December 2011, p. 13.
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McNealy and Schmidt quoted by Sherry Turkle, Alone Together, p. 256.
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Andrew Stevenson, ‘Cyberspace: It’s the New Toilet Wall’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21–22 July 2007, p. 30.
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‘Privacy No Longer a Social Norm, Says Facebook Founder’, The Guardian, 11 January 2010, at http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-privacy.
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Zuckerberg quoted by Jeff Jarvis, ‘Privacy, Publicness and the Web: A Manifesto’ at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=5779789. Accessed 27 March 2019.
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Davies quoted in Murad Ahmed, ‘Zuckerberg’s Revamp Plans Causing Friction’, The Australian, 16 November 2011, p. 12.
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Emily Nussbaum, ‘Kids, the Internet and the End of Privacy’, The Weekend Australian Magazine, 24–25 March 2007, p. 24.
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Sherry Turkle, Alone Together, p. 254.
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Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, p. 125.
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Mark Rose, Authors and Owners, p. 3.
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DJ Spooky quoted in Andrew Murphie and John Potts, Culture and Technology, p. 70.
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Daniela Simone, Copyright and Collective Authorship, p. 77.
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Simone, Copyright and Collective Authorship, p. 73.
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Simone, Copyright and Collective Authorship, p. 91.
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Simone, Copyright and Collective Authorship, p. 73.
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Michel Foucault, ‘What Is an Author?’, p. 124.
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Mark Rose, Authors and Owners, p. 64.
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Potts, J. (2021). Making the Temporary Permanent: The Digital Archive. In: Potts, J. (eds) Use and Reuse of the Digital Archive. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79523-8_2
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