Who keeps the archive? Cultural heritage, forgotten writers, and the infrastructure behind recovery
A few years ago I co-created a digital archive. The Victorian Jewish Writers Project began as a scholarly problem: nineteenth-century Jewish writers in Britain had been systematically excluded from the literary canon, their work scattered across out-of-print volumes, digitized newspaper runs, and institutional collections that had no particular reason to surface them together. The project was an attempt to do something about that, to gather, describe, and make discoverable a body of writing that existing finding tools were not built to find. ...