I’d just like to follow up my previous post with a few more leads I think are worth considering. Like any good archival effort, my working process here also embraces rational obsessiveness, the misguided quest for an exhaustive totality, and of course, the requisite lamentation over diminishing resources. As ever, there’s no time.
INDEXING/KEYWORDS: The means through which an archive is indexed and sorted positions the user in a specific way.
Question: What alternative (nonlinguistic? nonrational?) descriptive systems can realign the relationship a user shares with the archive?
FONDS/PROVENANCE: Archives must navigate the integrity of the fonds and delimit the explanatory value of an article’s provenance.
Question: How can the integrity of the fonds be disrespected or new insights be derived from an alternate reading of a document’s provenance? How can provenance be placed in tension with the fonds?
ACCESS: The barriers, context and rituals of access defines how certain documents will be received, read and disseminated.
Question: How can an unusual context of access be used to compel different readings of documents?
MATERIALITY: The materiality of the document entails certain organizational structures and offers varying strategies for interaction.
Question: What sort of material differentiation among documents can inform provocative classificatory structures?
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