The #PDF’s Place in a History of Paper Knowledge: An Interview with Lisa Gitelman | The Signal: Digital Preservation
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What is the #document as a #format and a medium? Even apart from any divide between analog and digital, the document is itself a form that has its own history, one that has long been tied up in ideas about reproduction. In Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, Lisa Gitelman explores the history of different kinds of documents (from printed bills, notes, receipts and tickets to today’s PDFs) and the technologies used to produce and reproduce them: letterpress, mimeograph, xerography, optical scans.
(…) For the purposes of this audience, our questions focus most directly on ideas about the PDF in the book.
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