From manuscript to metadata: preserving Indonesian literary heritage in the contemporary digital transition
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https://doi.org/10.64595/lingtech.v2i1.130Keywords:
archival studies, authorship, digital humanities, literary heritageAbstract
Background: The contemporary digital transition has transformed Indonesian literary heritage by shifting literary production from physical manuscripts to born-digital artifacts, while archival infrastructures and metadata practices struggle to keep pace with this change.
Objective: This study aims to examine how material transformation, metadata inequality, and digital writing practices collectively reshape literary preservation and authorship in Indonesia.
Method: Using a qualitative interpretive approach grounded in digital humanities and archival studies, the research analyzes a multi-layered corpus comprising institutional archives, author-managed digital materials, and platform-based literary outputs through comparative archival analysis and visual-analytic mapping.
Results: The findings reveal three interrelated patterns: a dominance of born-digital literary materials accompanied by low archival stability, a stratified metadata landscape that privileges institutional archives over platform-based environments, and a structural tension between high textual productivity and fragile preservation in digital authorship practices.
Implication: These patterns indicate that digital literary abundance does not guarantee cultural memory without coordinated archival mediation.
Novelty: This study introduces a visual–relational framework that reframes Indonesian literary heritage as an infrastructural and authorially contingent process within the digital transition.
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