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This week's term: virtual reunification
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virtual reunification 

n. ~ the practical recreation of the original provenance of a set of records or parts of a manuscript held by multiple repositories by making digitized versions of the records available via a single web portal
 
Related term
archival diaspora
 
Categories

ACCESS, DIGITAL RECORDS 
 
Citations
About the Project,” Jane Austin’s Fiction Manuscripts (accessed April 20, 2020). 

András Sipos: Thecadastral Heritage of the Habsburg Empire – Necessity and Possibilities of 'Virtual Reunification' of a Divided and Scattered Source Material,” En Route to a Shared Identity: Sources on the History of Central Europe in the Digital Age (November 30, 2014).

Norman, Jeremy, “Virtual Reunification of the Codex Sinaiticus,” HistoryofInformation.com (July 6, 2009).

Punzalan, Ricardo L., “Virtual Reunification: Bits and Pieces Gathered Together to Represent the Whole,” A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Information), University of Michigan (2013): 6.
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