ABSTRACT Contemporary approaches to the investigation of digital resources are dominated by the paradigm of free-form natural language search, popularised by Google. The Google form of searching has shaped our view of digital possibilities and profoundly affects our search and research habits. Yet in early pioneering work which led to the digital revolution of the 1990s, search was not a major consideration and there was a stronger emphasis on linking files. With the rise of very large born-digital resources such as e-mail archives, Wikileak dumps and web archives, the limitations of Google-type searching are becoming more evident. This paper reviews the limitations of search in exploring born-digital archives and starts to sketch out possible approaches to an alternative. It is suggested that a return to digital roots, by renewing the interest of pioneers such as Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson in the linking of files, may provide one approach to born-digital archives.

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协商天生数字：搜索问题

摘要 当代数字资源调查的方法主要是由谷歌推广的自由形式自然语言搜索范式。Google 的搜索形式塑造了我们对数字可能性的看法，并深刻影响了我们的搜索和研究习惯。然而，在导致 1990 年代数字革命的早期开创性工作中，搜索并不是主要考虑因素，并且更加强调链接文件。随着电子邮件档案、维基解密转储和网络档案等非常庞大的原生数字资源的兴起，谷歌式搜索的局限性变得越来越明显。本文回顾了搜索在探索原生数字档案方面的局限性，并开始勾勒出替代方案的可能方法。建议回归数字根源，