Digital archives:
a Bibliography
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Mattern, Shannon. “World in a Box.” Places Journal, 15 May 2024, https://placesjournal.org/article/social-history-of-the-cardboard-box/.
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McClenachan, Loren. “Documenting Loss of Large Trophy Fish from the Florida Keys with Historical Photographs.” Conservation Biology, vol. 23, no. 3, June 2009, pp. 636–43. ResearchGate, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01152.x.
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Soufan, Ayah, et al. “Untangling the Concept of Task in Information Seeking and Retrieval.” Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ACM, 2021, pp. 73–81. https://doi.org/10.1145/3471158.3472259.
Tameez, Hanaa’. “To Preserve Their Work—and Drafts of History—Journalists Take Archiving into Their Own Hands.” NeimanLab, 31 July 2024, https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/to-preserve-their-work-and-drafts-of-history-journalists-take-archiving-into-their-own-hands/.
Whittaker, Steve, and Julia Hirschberg. “The Character, Value, and Management of Personal Paper Archives.” ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 8, no. 2, June 2001, pp. 150–70, https://doi.org/10.1145/376929.376932.
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Woollett, Katherine, and Eleanor A. Maguire. “Acquiring ‘the Knowledge’ of London’s Layout Drives Structural Brain Changes.” Current Biology, vol. 21, no. 24, Dec. 2011, pp. 2109–14, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.018.
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Zittrain, Jonathan, John Bowers, et al. The Paper of Record Meets an Ephemeral Web: An Examination of Linkrot and Content Drift within The New York Times. Research Publication, 2021–2, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Apr. 2021,
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