Call for papers – “Digitizing the Urban Archive: Towards a New Digital Urban History”
In the last five years digital technologies have provided urban historians and the general public with many new tools for the reproduction, classification, and study of archival materials. Projects in many cities around the world are digitizing city council minutes and other records of municipal governance, allowing new kinds of searches and studies that illuminate the relationship between politics, development and the economy. Dissemination of documents to a wider public is not the only effect of the digitization of archival materials.