Editor’s Corner

Editorial| November 01 2023 Editor’s Corner: Digital Archives, School Names, and Visionary Founders Sarah H. Case Sarah H. Case Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 5–6. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.5 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sarah H. Case; Editor’s Corner: Digital Archives, School Names, and Visionary Founders. The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 5–6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.5 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search This issue features five reports from the field, analyzing diverse and far-reaching projects. Reflecting current trends, three discuss digital archives and propose models to help establish best practices for the medium. The first, “Slow Disasters and Adaptive Archiving: COVID-19 and the Rolling-Response Model,” by Kathleen Kole de Peralta and Marissa Rhodes examines the creation of Journal of the Plague Year: A COVID-19 Archive (JOTPY). Originally conceived as a short-term, rapid-response archive to collect during what was assumed to be a brief period of lockdown, it evolved into an expansive, international, and ongoing project. Kole de Peralta and Rhodes coined the term “rolling-response archive” to describe the kind of collecting that the pandemic necessitated, that is, “an archive that collects stories over a long period (six months or more) and adjusts its collection and curatorial practices in response to the lived historical moment.” Characterized by “crowdsourced material, extended data... You do not currently have access to this content.