Archival theory and digital historiography: Selection, search, and metadata as archival processes for assessing historical contextualization

American Archivist

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 544-575

  Sternfeld, Joshua ^a  

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EID: 82455186303     PISSN: 03609081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.74.2.644851p6gmg432h0     Document Type: Article

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