Was he or wasn’t he? Authority in expanding contexts

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Digital History workshop: Crowdsourcing in the Humanities and cultural heritage sector. Victoria University of Wellington 23 April 2013 Session: Was he or wasn’t he? Authority in expanding contexts Presenter: Kay Sanderson http://wtap.vuw.ac.nz/wordpress/digital-history/events/crowdsourcing-workshop/presenters/

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Was he or wasn’t he? Authority in expanding contexts

Crowdsourcing WorkshopVictoria University of Wellington23 April 2013

Kay.Sanderson@vuw.ac.nz

“Any book with a readable title page is, to some extent, autobiographical.”

Paul de Man, as cited in Francis Pound (2007). The reflecting archive. http://www.annshelton.com/articles/the_reflecting_archive.pdf

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Go_to_Mystery_Moor

“… single sources of decision-making can no longer be trusted, which sets in train… disjunctions between the archivist as a manager of the organisational archive which irons out diversity and the archivist as a neutral manager of the plurality of the archives where diversity flourishes”

Upward, F. (2009). Managing the flicker: Continuum concepts and the formation of archives. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, p. 144.