Tyacke 2001, 11In the case of these originals which have been digitized, the preferred solution, if it can be afforded, is to keep both the artefact for its “record-ness” or “book-ness” and its authenticity given the instability of the digital forms at present using the digitized version for access and to protect the original from constant use. In other words, artifacts are things that have intrinsic value as objects, independent of their informational content. For the purposes of this report, an artifact will be defined as an information resource in which the information is recorded on a physical medium, such as a photograph or a book, and in which the information value of the resource adheres not only in the text or content but also in the object itself. In academic parlance, “artifact” can refer to a physical object, a primary record, or a physical object that constitutes a primary record. Nichols and Smith 2001, 8The word “artifact” can be confusing because it masks a number of unexamined assumptions.
In this climate of opinion, the MLA believes that it is crucial for the future of humanistic study to make more widely understood the continuing value of the artifacts themselves for reading and research. Frequently, however, discussions of these developments imply that, once reproductions exist, many of the artifacts from which they derive need no longer be consulted or saved.
a library or archival resource that has value as a physical object in addition to its informational value (View Citations) MLA 1995, 27Everyone who cares about the past should be grateful to the library world for the way it has responded to the challenges of textual preservation. Chute 2011, 312At the same time, archivists borrow artifacts from other archives and museums to add unique items to an exhibition or to enhance a case with three-dimensional artifacts when the collection only includes paper. a three-dimensional object held in an archives (View Citations) Cronin 2006, 137The archival photographs in this exhibition are supplemented with an artefact exhibit and textual documents, as well as teacher and student resources intended as a starting point for further dialogue surrounding the many complex subjects raised by the re-presentation of this material. 1999, 4In our own field the work of the international archival descriptive standards community has essentially been concerned with the retrospective description of records as artefacts. (also artefact) a physical object that is made or modified by human culture (View Citations) McKemmish et al.
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