T HE ARCHIVES OF SURGERY WILL BE OFFIcially renamed JAMA Surgery, beginning January 1, 2013; the other 8 Archives journals will be renamed similarly for their specialties. When I discussed this with the new JAMA editor, Howard Bauchner, MD, I was excited about the new name. We are uniquely linked to JAMA and this name change will broadcast that association even more vividly. The Archives of Sur...

Large scale text archives are increasingly becoming available on the Web. Exploring their evolving contents along both text and temporal dimensions enables us to realize their full potential. Standard keyword queries facilitate exploration along the text dimension only. Recently proposed time-travel keyword queries enable query processing along both dimensions, but require the user to be aware ...

At one time archives were all about dust. For extended periods of time they served as little more than pillars or rudimentary building blocks for spider webs. Such boxes offered a place for us to place information, histories, pictures, and memories. They also served as a seasonal reminder of taxes, of family visits over holidays, spring cleanings, and dreaded household moves. Hidden behind and ...

Archives are a valuable part of our cultural heritage but despite their importance, the models and technologies that have been developed over the past two decades in the Digital Library (DL) field have not been specifically tailored to them. This is especially true when it comes to formal and foundational frameworks, as the Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, Societies (5S) model is. Theref...

Far from being a simple reflection of reality, archives are constructed windows into personal and collective processes. They at once express and are instruments of prevailing relations of power. Verne Harris makes these arguments through an account of archives and archivists in the context of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy. The account is deliberately shaped around three ...

News, multimedia and cultural heritage archives are increasingly offering opportunities to create connections between their collections. We consider the task of linking archives: connecting an item in one archive to one or more items in other, often complementary archives. We focus on a specific instance of the task: linking items with a rich textual representation in a news archive to items wi...