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23 February 2021
Food Research and Digital Scholarship 2020; Archive Survey Results Summary
Christian Reynolds, Libby Oakden, et al.
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Food has become an increasingly
popular subject of study due to its inherently multidisciplinary nature.
However due to this wide appeal, there is not one specific group of users who
use one specific set of texts. Many cultural institutions have large
collections relating to food, some of which, now fully or partially digitised,
are accessible to the global research community. Prior to our 2019 community
survey (10.15131/shef.data.13948154), we did not know if researchers are
currently using digitised collections, let alone which collections should be
given digitization priority. This project is a start to filling in these
knowledge gaps by asking what (and how) scholars are currently using analogue
and digital material, and how libraries and archives can better support food
researchers through...
Digital heritage
Food
Cook books
archives, history, science, digital collection
Archives
Digital Humanities
