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A Community of Practice
- Archivists
- Researchers
- Technologists
- Activists
Lave and Wenger (1991) Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation.
We specialize in transforming, migrating, or massaging data from one system so that it fits neatly into others. From that process, we are able to achieve the interoperability of our systems and provide users with enhanced access to our collections. However, the rising tide of fascism should offer pause regarding the benefits of normalized data that can easily be piped from one system to another.
Jarrett Drake
Appraisal
The process of identifying materials offered to an archives that have
sufficient value to be accessioned.
A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. Society of American Archivists.
Information Flux
Bossewitch, J., & Sinnreich, A. (2012). The end of forgetting: Strategic agency beyond the panopticon. New Media & Society.
Reificiation
... the process of giving form to our experience by producing objects that congeal this experience into “thingness”. In so doing we create points of focus around which the negotiation of meaning becomes organized.
Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity by Etienne Wenger
