Publications
Books & Book Chapters
The rise of digitisation and social media over the past decade has fostered the rise of participatory and DIY digital culture. Likewise, the archival community has leveraged these new technologies, aiming to engage users and expand access to collections. This book examines the creation and development of participatory archives, evaluates its impact on archival theory, and presents case studies of its real world application.
Participatory Archives is divided into four sections, with each focused on a particular aspect of participatory archives:
social tagging and commenting
transcription
crowdfunding and
outreach & activist communities.
Each section includes chapters summarising the existing literature, a discussion of theoretical challenges and benefits, and a series of case studies. The case studies are written by a range of international practitioners and provide a wide range of examples in practice, whilst the remaining chapters are supplied by leading scholars from Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Includes:
Benoit, Edward, III and Alexandra Eveleigh. “Defining and Framing Participatory Archives in Archival Science.” In Edward Benoit, III and Alexandra Eveleigh, eds. Participatory Archives: Theory & Practice (London: Facet Publishing, 2019): 1-12.
Benoit, Edward, III and Ana Roeschley. “Degrees of Mediation: A Review of the Intersectionality between Community and Participatory Archives.” In Edward Benoit, III and Alexandra Eveleigh, eds. Participatory Archives: Theory & Practice (London: Facet Publishing, 2019): 159-171.
Benoit, Edward, III and Alexandra Eveleigh. “Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Direction of Participatory Archives.” In Edward Benoit, III and Alexandra Eveleigh, eds. Participatory Archives: Theory & Practice (London: Facet Publishing, 2019): 211-218.
Journal Publications
Wright, Trudi and Edward Benoit III. “Technology Use in Designing Curriculum for Archivists: Utilizing Andragogical Approaches in Designing Digital Learning Environments for Archives Professional Development.” Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 48, no. 2 (2019): 85-94.
Benoit, Edward, III and Donald C. Force. “One Size Does Not Fit All: Graduate Archival Education in the 21st Century.” American Archivist 82, no.1 (2019): 24-52.
Benoit, Edward, III. “Moving Image User-Generated Description: A Matter of Time.” International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Journal 49, no. 1 (2018): 60-72.
Benoit, Edward, III and Amanda Munson. “Proceed with Caution: Deepening Concerns about Social Tagging within Digital Collections, 2010-2016.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 18, no. 4 (2018): 759-779.
Benoit, Edward, III. “#MPLP Part 2: Replacing Item-level Metadata with Social Tags.” American Archivist 81, no. 1 (2018): 38-64.
Benoit, Edward, III. “#MPLP Part 1: Comparing Domain Expert and Novice Social Tags in a Minimally Processed Digital Archive.” American Archivist 80, no. 2 (2017): 145-176.
Benoit, Edward, III. “Digital V-Mail & the 21st Century Soldier: Preliminary Findings from the Virtual Footlocker Project.” Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 46, no. 1 (2017): 17-31.
Benoit, Edward, III, and Jennifer Ann Stevenson. “@Archivist_Community: UCINET Social Network Analysis and Archivists on Twitter.” Proceedings of the 2016 iConference (2016). http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89333.
Xie, Iris, and Edward Benoit III. “Search Result List Evaluation versus Document Evaluation: Similarities and Differences.” Journal of Documentation 69, no. 1 (2013): 49-80.
Benoit, Edward, III. “Sub-field Visualization: A Multidimensional Analysis of Web 2.0 Authors.” In Proceedings of the 2011 Great Lakes Connections Conference: Discourse & Illumination, edited by Edward Benoit III, 17-26. Milwaukee, WI: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Digital Commons, 2011. http://dc.uwm.edu/sois_student/1/
Benoit, Edward, III, ed. Proceedings of the 2011 Great Lakes Connections Conference: Discourse & Illumination. Milwaukee, WI: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Digital Commons, 2011. http://dc.uwm.edu/sois_student/1/
Xie, Iris, Edward Benoit III, and Huan Zhang. “How do Users Evaluate Individual Documents? An Analysis of Dimensions of Evaluation Activities.” Information Research 15, no. 4 (2010). http://InformationR.net/ir/15-4/colis723.html.