Digital critical archives, copyright, and feminist praxis

Abstract With the continued proliferation of digitized materials, critical attention to ideologies informing creation digital archives remains crucial. How are made and what their goals? do different participants in process work together collaborative teams towards shared ideals? This paper outlines methodological political considerations that underlie a archive historical born-digital materials relating 20th-century publishing history, The Modernist Archives Publishing Project ( MAPP ). Here we outline archival practices ethos have informed by an international team scholars, archivists, cultural institutions, students, copyright estate holders. We address issues selection arise creating archive; feminist metadata practices; our approaches workflow copyright; conclude with example document type which curation collide.