This is a full feature film of one hour, fifteen minutes length. You can scroll down for chapters.
In this conversation, Laurel Brake and James Mussell discuss journals and digitization. They were both editors of the Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (ncse), a digitized edition of six nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals published in 2008. The conversation takes in the digitization of historical periodicals in the broader context of contemporary, born-digital periodical titles. Nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals present particular challenges: there are so many of them; they are poorly catalogued; runs are fragmented; and they survive in many forms. As well as this troublesome archive, they also consider the problems posed by periodical form itself. Is there a place for periodicity in an always-on digital world? Birkbeck was the base for ncse from 2005 to 2008, and Brake and Mussell were both involved with 19 in its first few years. They discuss the potential of born-digital periodicals like 19 and consider how, to date, 19 has exploited its medium. In many ways this anniversary issue — combining text, audio, and video and marking a particular moment — exemplifies how much more work there is to do.
Authors: Laurel Brake and Jim Mussell
Directors: Ana Parejo Vadillo and Luisa Calè
CHAPTERS
1:21 Genealogies of Digitizing Periodicals
3:28 Rarified, Pure, and Messy Forms
4:19 Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse): Learning by Digitizing
8:10 The Incomplete Print Archive
9:25 Digital Reconstruction
10:26 Remediation and Recirculation
14:36 Behind Paywalls
18:46 Intended Users and Digital Tools
20:11 Digital Tools, Bibiliographical Histories
21:56 The Rise of Media Studies
23:56 Archive vs Edition Model
25:59 Literacy Skills
30:22 Print and Material Culture
31:21 The Digital as a Material Object
33:52 Bibliographic Awareness: The Invisibility of the Digital
35:34 The British Library: a ‘Museum of Print’
38:32 Born Digital: 19
40:26 Digital Presentism – Journal Archives
41:11 Infinite Merging
41:46 The Project of the Magazine
43:01 Open Access
43:59 Interdisciplinarity
45:35 Periodical Space and Time in the Digital Sphere
47:45 The Legacy of Print
48:48 Digital Openings: Videos, Podcasts, Blogspace Interactivity
52:43 Journals in the Digital Media Ecology
53:50 The Research Excellence Framework (REF) & Peer Reviewing
57:07 Editorial Challenges and Modern Scholarship
58:51 Cultivating a Digital Community
1:02:58 Funding Models
1:05:11 Resplendent Advertising
1:07:31 Institutional Endowment
1:13:31 Evolving with Technology
1:14:40 Credits
