Digitisation and the Survival of Documents : the records of seventeenth-century Barbados

Barber, Sarah (2011) Digitisation and the Survival of Documents : the records of seventeenth-century Barbados. APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture, 4. ISSN 1946-1992

Abstract

This article charts the importance of corpora of documents held by the Barbados Department of Archives, which will be of huge importance to historians and a variety of other scholars and users, but which can only be rendered so if they can be captured in such a way as to allow full, systematic transcription and data-analysis. This opens up contested ownership, access, intellectual property and copyright issues, here explored through the author's personal experience.