The webinar will:
• discuss current approaches to digital scholarship and archives, and ways the archival profession is addressing digital scholarship needs
• describe computational tools and methods that are being applied to archives, and the caveats of these tools and methods
• share lessons learned by the presenter from recent projects that explored applying computational approaches to archives
• provide an overview of recent literature and relevant projects for attendees to explore further.
Speaker: Prof. Bethany Anderson
• Assistant Professor and Natural and Applied Sciences Archivist, University of Illinois Archives, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• Joint Editor-in-Chief of Comma: International Journal on Archives.
• Co-Editor of Archival Futures, a book series published jointly by the Society of American Archivists and the American Library Association.
• Interested in scientific archives and computational approaches to archives.
