Abstract

What shapes does the nineteenth-century paper archive take in the twenty-first century digital cloud? Luisa Cale and Ana Parejo Vadillo situate the crafts, experiments, and visions discussed in this anniversary issue in the wider context of questions raised by the emergence and possibilities of nineteenth-century archives for the digital era. What happens when objects float free of their bibliographic and museum anchorings? What is gained and lost in the digital transformations? What new imaginary spaces open up in the transition from the book to the virtual codex and from the terrestrial library to cloud-sourced collections? What formations does the nineteenth century take in digital discourse networks? How are nineteenth-century objects made digital, and through what crafts, skills, and disciplines? How are they shaped by circulation through digital platforms, social media, and remix on the semantic web? What kinds of authoring, what structures of labour, what kinds of making and knowing shape agency in the nineteenth-century digital archive?

Highlights

  • Calè, Luisa and Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2015) In the cloud: Nineteenth-Century visions and experiments for the digital age. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 21, ISSN 1755-1560

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  • Liu suggested that XML enables authors and readers to ‘join with their institutions to complete a new discursive circuit we might call, updating

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Summary

Luisa Calè and Ana Parejo Vadillo

The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams, with their convex gleams, Build up the blue Dome of Air — I silently laugh, at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,. Liu suggested that XML enables authors and readers to ‘join with their institutions to complete a new discursive circuit we might call, updating This issue on the Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive celebrates the tenth anniversary of our open access online journal 19: Interdisciplinary. The section on experiments highlights the creative process that underscores the nineteenth-century archive, understood in this instance as a sort of new fountain of Hippocrene, a digital warehouse of nineteenthcentury materiality with an abundance of media objects that are accessible, downloadable, and remixed in a creative process that potentiates new art. Bob Nicholson identifies keyword strings in Victorian printed collections of jokes, tracks their dissemination in the nineteenth-century digital archive, and remixes them through automatic image–text attributions, On character texts, see Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern, Shakespeare in Parts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007). Nicholson’s experiment measures the impact of the project, widening participation beyond the Victorian studies community to explore the dynamics of the jokes’ digital circulation, whether their new digital makeover gains them a new lease of life in the Twittersphere, and how they change through this new channel of transmission

Rob Gallagher and Vadillo reconstruct the visual aesthetic of Michael
This anniversary issue concludes with an interview with Hilary

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