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title: 1a Archival silence is a good thing when its purpose is protection
date: 2022-05-25
icon: 🔖
category: Zettelkasten
tags:
categories: Zettelkasten
lastMod: 2022-06-21
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Having silences in our archives is good when people would be put in danger or have their privacy violated otherwise.

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- parent [1 Archival silence is a problem when its purpose is oppression]({{< ref "1 Archival silence is a problem when its purpose is oppression" >}})

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- See my presentation [Describing Absence The Complicated Power of Metadata Surrogates in Libraries and Archives]({{< ref "Describing Absence The Complicated Power of Metadata Surrogates in Libraries and Archives" >}}) for specific examples and scenarios.