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For humanists working in the digital research environment, digital collections are a common and familiar formation. In important ways they shape the conditions of our work just as physical collections—libraries, archives, museums—have created and shaped the conditions of knowledge work over the past few centuries. Because of their resemblance to (and in many cases their basis in) physical collections, it may be difficult for us to recognize the novelty of digital collections and the distinctive epistemological conditions under which they present themselves to us. In this chapter I attempt to scrutinize those conditions and bring them to visibility.
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Flanders, J. (2014). Rethinking Collections. In: Arthur, P.L., Bode, K. (eds) Advancing Digital Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137337016_11
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