Abstract
The digitization of Jerusalem Architectural Archives was a practical heritage documentation project establishing a platform for studying architecture and design in modern Jerusalem. The project ventured to locate, digitize, and catalog official and personal documents concerning the city’s modern development. The resulting database consists of elaborate Excel tables incorporating seven archival and working collections produced under various regimes: Ottoman, British, and Israeli. Striving to divulge the material to as many readers as possible and facilitate multiple readings of the city’s history, we questioned the terms and categories traditionally used for tagging and cataloging documents in the historiography of Jerusalem. Technically, the main challenges we faced were inconsistent and incomplete cataloging of the original archives, obtaining document publishing rights, and creating a sustainable platform. More substantial challenges pertained to the cataloger’s interpretative role in objectively representing the information emerging from the various documents and the archive’s role as a mediator in research and practice.
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