Editorial

摘要

How should archivists respond to the increasingly widespread creation of data banks produced by researchers scanning large quantities of archival material to compress research trips to archives? The blurring of disciplinary boundaries between the work of historians and archivists when historians become 'inexpert architects of digital archives' (p. 3) by employing portable scanning technologies is explored in Julie McIntyre's article on how one such micro-digitisation project led to the creation of a new archive. This case study employs an autoethnographic approach examining the practicalities and ethical decision-making involved in creating a new digital archive of wine history in the Hunter Valley. McIntyre's discussion of the ethical issues encountered includes an account of her decision-making about the use of government funding to digitise a large number of blank pages as part of her digital archive creation.