In the last decade, many initiatives were taken to digitize colonial archival legacies. In this article, we analyse Dutch policy and a number of Dutch initiatives in this field with the aim to find answers to our central question whether digitization of colonial archival legacies offers possibilities to decolonize these archives. The aspiration to decolonize colonial legacies seems to be a paradoxical statement since there is something innately colonial in the recordkeeping systems that cannot, and should not, be removed. But digitization of archives means creating new recordkeeping infrastructures, and these new infrastructures shape new interfaces between the documents which were created in the past and the users of today. We argue that decolonizing these archives can be based on a comprehensive understanding of the complexity of the variables which shape the new digital archival infrastructure. Inspired by the third-space perspective and the concept of (de)coloniality, we explore the possibilities to develop archival infrastructures that contribute to decolonizing colonial archival legacies in the sense of offering multivocality, multiple agency and multiple provenance. We conclude that what we call third-space infrastructural frameworks create promising opportunities to contribute to the decolonization of colonial archival legacies.

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煽动殖民记忆的悖论

在过去的十年中，采取了许多举措来对殖民档案遗产进行数字化。在本文中，我们分析了荷兰在这一领域的政策和许多荷兰倡议，目的是找到我们的中心问题的答案，即殖民档案遗产的数字化是否可以使这些档案非殖民化。非殖民化殖民传统的愿望似乎是一个自相矛盾的说法，因为在记录保存系统中固有地存在着某种不能，而且不应该被删除的东西。但是档案的数字化意味着创建新的记录保存基础架构，而这些新的基础架构在过去创建的文档和当今的用户之间形成了新的接口。我们认为对这些档案进行非殖民化可以基于对构成新的数字档案基础设施的变量的复杂性的全面理解。受第三空间视角和（de）殖民主义概念的启发，我们探索了开发档案基础设施的可能性，这些基础设施在提供多声音，多种代理和多种来源的意义上有助于殖民殖民遗产遗产的非殖民化。我们得出的结论是，我们所谓的第三空间基础设施框架创造了有希望的机会，为殖民档案遗产的非殖民化做出了贡献。我们探索了开发档案基础设施的可能性，这些基础设施在提供多声音，多种代理和多种出处的意义上，有助于殖民殖民档案遗产的非殖民化。我们得出的结论是，我们所谓的第三空间基础设施框架创造了有希望的机会，为殖民档案遗产的非殖民化做出了贡献。我们探索了开发档案基础设施的可能性，这些基础设施在提供多声音，多种代理和多种出处的意义上，有助于殖民殖民档案遗产的非殖民化。我们得出的结论是，我们所谓的第三空间基础设施框架创造了有希望的机会，为殖民档案遗产的非殖民化做出了贡献。