<p>Another important aspect of archival work, besides the ones previously mentioned, was brought forth by Padmini Ray Murray. Understanding the archive as activism, Padmini Ray Murray's calls for decentralized servers hosting DIY archives as a way of providing a counterpoint to massive archiving projects by the likes of, for example, Google. Giving the example of Google Arts & Culture's project "Women in India: Unheard Stories", Ray Murray highlights that all the material Google has received from many Indian cultural institutions is serving only as a corpus to train their machines, as the interface through which it is presented is cryptic at best. According to Ray Murray this relationship between interface and knowledge production is a very important one: whoever archives determines how the subject is represented. Ray Murray is therefore critical of the ability of profit-led corporations to truly forward the interests of the represented subjects. Thus, such an archive must be challenged. The taxonomies and categories of the Internet, as a consequence of the Enlightenment project, must be exploded: "As scholars, as thinkers, as makers it is also on us, I think, to jam the archive, and to make the ways that the digital archive thinks about how the world is represented, how history will be read, or how history will be understood."</p>
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<h2id="conclusion">Conclusion</h2>
<p>Each in their own way, the speakers highlighted that it is important for publishers to actively <spanclass="highlight-lilac">work towards bridging the gap between authors, readers and themselves</span>, <spanclass="highlight-blue">to build communities, to bring people together, and to collaborate within and outside of your own network</span>. It is high time to stop looking at the book simply as a product. <spanclass="highlight-blue">The speakers of The Afterlife of Publications have shown that the book, or any other publication, can serve as a catalyst for connection in the ‘post-truth’ era.</span></p>
Another important aspect of archival work, besides the ones previously mentioned, was brought forth by Padmini Ray Murray. Understanding the archive as activism, Padmini Ray Murray's calls for decentralized servers hosting DIY archives as a way of providing a counterpoint to massive archiving projects by the likes of, for example, Google. Giving the example of Google Arts & Culture's project "Women in India: Unheard Stories", Ray Murray highlights that all the material Google has received from many Indian cultural institutions is serving only as a corpus to train their machines, as the interface through which it is presented is cryptic at best. According to Ray Murray this relationship between interface and knowledge production is a very important one: whoever archives determines how the subject is represented. Ray Murray is therefore critical of the ability of profit-led corporations to truly forward the interests of the represented subjects. Thus, such an archive must be challenged. The taxonomies and categories of the Internet, as a consequence of the Enlightenment project, must be exploded: "As scholars, as thinkers, as makers it is also on us, I think, to jam the archive, and to make the ways that the digital archive thinks about how the world is represented, how history will be read, or how history will be understood."
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
## Conclusion
Each in their own way, the speakers highlighted that it is important for publishers to actively <spanclass='hightlight-lilac'>work towards bridging the gap between authors, readers and themselves</span>, <spanclass='hightlight-blue'>to build communities, to bring people together, and to collaborate within and outside of your own network</span>. It is high time to stop looking at the book simply as a product. <spanclass='hightlight-blue'>The speakers of The Afterlife of Publications have shown that the book, or any other publication, can serve as a catalyst for connection in the ‘post-truth’ era.</span>
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