@amaliasl.bsky.social
Archives, life writing, history. Research focus: slavery & dependency; record-keeping & archives; Caribbean Jewish history; digital humanities. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/ and https://heritedge.org/
@amaliasl.bsky.socialThank you, Eileen! :)
@amaliasl.bsky.social📢 Now out in the world:
Immaterial and Material Archives in the Caribbean: New Sources and Approaches, co-edited by yours truly together with and Raphael Dohardt and @teresagoeltl.bsky.social
Offered open access thanks to funding from @dependencybonn.de .
@biella.bsky.socialReposted by @amaliasl.bsky.socialChris Kelty's new book, now available (!!!) is stellar and unconventional. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
@amaliasl.bsky.socialReposted by @amaliasl.bsky.socialJust published! New co-authored article in the edited collection Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief.
Its title: "The Past(s) We Access Online: Ethical Challenges of Digital Archives."
Editors: @kpalex91.bsky.social & @librarianchef.bsky.social
@amaliasl.bsky.socialJust published! New co-authored article in the edited collection Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief.
Its title: "The Past(s) We Access Online: Ethical Challenges of Digital Archives."
Editors: @kpalex91.bsky.social & @librarianchef.bsky.social
@amaliasl.bsky.socialWhich was the premise of Jurassic Park 🙃
@amaliasl.bsky.socialWe have published a new collection of advertisements about apothecaries and medicines in 18th c. Bridgetown, Barbados.
More information in the thread.
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@amaliasl.bsky.social📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
@amaliasl.bsky.socialWe have created a booklet with advertisements of self-emancipating enslaved people in Barbados in the 18th and 19th centuries.
It aims to make these ads more accessible and contains images of c. 20 ads, their transcriptions, and a short introduction contextualizing them.
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@amaliasl.bsky.socialArchives are neither dusty nor old stuff neither dead nor boring. Archives are what we make of them. Each generation, each of us sees diferent things in an item. Each of us adds something new every time we engage. Each item in the archives is the sum of all these interactions.
