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A Selective Digital History: Limitations within Digitisation Practices and their Implications
Angus Grant, Peter Raisbeck, David Kroll (ed.), James Curry (ed.)
Ultra: Positions and Polarities Beyond Crisis. | SAHANZ | Published : 2021
Abstract
The Greg Burgess Archive (GBA) is perhaps the most complete, and arguably the most valuable architectural practice archive in Australia. However, its physical size presents a problem to both visibility, and longevity, and plans are in place to digitise the collection. While in storage at Avington, Victoria, an archival team – including Burgess himself – have begun repairing the 447 models, scanning the hundreds of tubes of drawings, and extracting data from countless obsolete media. Yet how reasonable is it to assume the efficacy of a program of digitisation? What are the implications for an objective architectural historiography if the process fails? Precipitated by difficulties in accurate..
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