Although much has been written on the archival principle of provenance and the centrality of records creation to archival practices and processes, there has been little exploration of how records creation is figured and enacted across specific archival sites and spaces. This article centers records creation in two digital archives of feminist materials: Alternative Toronto and Rise Up! Feminist Digital Archive with the aim of demonstrating records creation as an imaginative and fabulatory process of meaning-making. By decentering the notion of a singular, remarkable creator in favor of a multiplicity of creating contexts and actors, Rise Up! and Alternative Toronto enable imaginative acts of records creation that play with the spatial and temporal boundaries of records, pushing them into new, oftentimes unanticipated relationships to other records, users, and intervenors. In this article, I propose that provenancial fabulation can be characterized through four dimensions: first, it plays with contradictory records contexts putting them in conversation with one another; second, it troubles the order and organization of the past; third, it extends the temporal and spatial boundaries of historical records and accounts; and fourth, it acts infrastructurally to circulate ideas, imaginaries, narratives, and relationalities. In creating and configuring digital records according to feminist understandings of archival value and historical continuity, Alternative Toronto and Rise Up! demonstrate provenancial fabulation as a structuring force in the circulation of feminist knowledges and desires.

尽管关于起源的档案原则和文件创建在档案实践和过程中的中心地位已经写了很多，但很少有人探索文件创建是如何在特定的档案站点和空间中被计算和制定的。本文集中记录了两个女权主义材料数字档案馆的创作：另类多伦多和崛起！女权主义数字档案馆，旨在证明记录创建是一种富有想象力和虚构的意义创造过程。通过分散单一、卓越的创作者的概念，转而支持多种创作环境和演员，《崛起！和替代多伦多启用记录创建的富有想象力的行为，这些行为可以处理记录的空间和时间边界，将它们推向与其他记录、用户和干预者的新的、通常是意想不到的关系。在这篇文章中，我提出起源虚构可以通过四个维度来表征：首先，它处理相互矛盾的记录上下文，使它们相互对话；二是扰乱了过去的秩序和组织；三是拓宽了历史记载和记载的时空界限；第四，它在基础设施上发挥作用，传播思想、想象、叙事和关系。在根据女权主义对档案价值和历史连续性的理解创建和配置数字记录时，Alternative Toronto和升起！证明起源虚构是女权主义知识和欲望传播的结构化力量。