The Archive and the Internet

Por Rolena Adorno

 Aproximación metodologica:
“the preparation and presentation of scholarly sources”

Qué pasa cuando cambia el Sistema?

“This convergence of skills mediates between the
secrecy or unavailability of the Archive and the open
access of the Internet”

The library
provides a vast
array of resources
but while doing so
inevitably loses in
+ = uniform high
quality what it
gains in range and
inclusiveness.
La materialidad del saber

Raúl Porras
Barrenechea: El
embajador de
El primer nueva Dinamarca en la
corónica y buen corte española
gobierno (1650-1655 y 1658-
1662), Cornelius
Por Felipe Guaman Poma de Pedersen Lerche
Ayala (Alrededor de 1615) Royal Library of Denmark and its Department
of Manuscripts and Rare Books
La Misión
El Objetivo
From the scholarly point of view, the
challenge was to prepare a facsimile edition
for online application, that is, to determine
and construct the means by which to
accompany the text with a useful critical
apparatus.
La Necesidad del Sabio/Lector
Again, the knowledgeable reader/scholar was
needed insofar as a mere mechanical
transcription of Guaman Poma’s titles and
captions would be insufficiently helpful in
identifying the themes or contents of the
drawings.
Las nuevas relaciones

The introduction of the new medium into the world of scholarship implies, in fact, a number of new
relationships: budgetary, institutional, intellectual, and with other media.

Budgetary Institutional Intellectual With other media

These behind the scenes
issues are the first to be
resolved in order to carry
forward potential scholarly
projects that require
collaborative effort not only
disciplinarily but also with
regard to funding.
such long-term To draw the The Internet and the Archive,
commitments by national relationships— in short, enhance one
and international genealogical, another’s usefulness, and they
institutional and scholars dialectical, and can be as effective in
answer the challenges polemical—among the advancing historical
posed by amateur, fly-by- works produced in the scholarship as the efforts of
night promotional (and colonial period of scholars, librarians,
self-promotional) hobby LatinAmerica. technicians, and institutions
horses on the web are prepared and willing to
make them.