Instituted in 2011, the Dodds Prize recognizes superior research and writing on an archival topic by a student enrolled in a Master’s level archival studies program at a Canadian university.
Devon’s paper will be published in the Spring 2019 issue of Archivaria, and the award will be formally presented at the ACA Conference in Toronto next June.
“We may observe a growing preoccupation in the archival literature with characterizing digital archives as “big data,” suitably capturing both their scale and the potential to manipulate them through the application of computational methods and techniques for the purposes of discovering new insights. The possibilities for working with digital archives as data are indeed encouraging, from supporting archival arrangement and description tasks to promoting the use of digital archives as data sets by researchers. But what are digital archives becoming when they are reframed as data, big or otherwise? What consequences might such a conceptualization have for how archival professionals imagine their role and their work?”
