About Paul Conway
Born 1953. Paul Conway is an American archivist, academic, university teacher and computer scientist.
Fellowships and awards 1985 Mellon Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan 1986 H. W. Wilson Scholarship, University of Michigan 1996 Fellow, Calhoun College, Yale University 1997 Fellow, Society of American Archivists 2004 Research Libraries Leadership Fellowship, Association of Research Libraries 2005 Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award
Works Books Partners in Research: Toward Enhanced Access to the Nation's Archive: A Report on the Users of the National Archives (1994) Flood In Florence, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective (2018, co-edited with Martha O'Hara Conway)
Journal publications "Modeling the Digital Content Landscape in Universities." Library Hi Tech 26 (3): 342β358. (2008) "Building Meaning in Digitized Photographs." Journal of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 1 (no. 1). (2009) "Preservation in the Age of Google: Digitization, Digital Preservation, and Dilemmas." The Library Quarterly 80 (1): 61β79. (2010) "Modes of Seeing: Digitized Photographic Archives and the Experienced User." American Archivist 73 (Fall): 425β462. (2010) "Archival Quality and Long-term Preservation: A Research Framework for Validating the Usefulness of Digital Surrogates." Archival Science 11 (3): 293β309. DOI: 10.1007/s10502-011-9155-0 (2011) "Preserving Imperfection: Assessing the Incidence of Digitization Error in HathiTrust," Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 42, No. 1, pp. 17β30. (2013) "New Culture of Scholarship: An Analysis of North American Archival Research Articles," American Archivist Online Supplement to Volume 74, pp. 306:1-15. (2013) "At the Nexus of Analog and Digital: A Symposium of Preservation Educators," Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 43, No. 1-2; 2β8. (2014) "Digital Transformations and the Archival Nature of Surrogates," Archival Science 15 (1): 51β69. DOI: 10.1007/s10502-014-9219-z (2015)
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