Opening Description

Hi Evan, I really like your new section on Opening Description. My paper for Giovanni's class briefly discussed how user-generated descriptions challenge and destabilize archival authority. Some articles that touch on this (and may be helpful) are the following:

Conway, Paul and Ricardo Punzalan. “Fields of Vision: Toward a New Theory of Visual Literacy for Digitized Archival Photographs.” Archivaria 71 (2011): 63-97. http://archivists.ca/content/e-archivaria

Yakel, Elizabeth. “Inviting the User Into the Virtual Archives.” International Digital Library Perspectives 22 no.3 (2006): 159-163. doi: 10.1108/10650750610686207

I have one more recommended source that I came across today. It is an entire book, available as an e-book from UBC. Archive Stories Facts, Fictions, and the Writings of History It looks like Part 1 - Close Encounters: The Archives as Contact Zone would have some relevant material.