<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>atomicnotes </span> in Death by Zettelkasten: a haunting story of information overload! : Zettelkasten (<time class='dt-published'>11/01/2022 12:03:47</time>)</cite></small>

T., T. F., A. F. P., E. R. A., H. E. E., R. C., E. L. W., F. J. C. H., and E. J. C. “Short Notices.” History 8, no. 31 (1923): 231–37.

The Empire of Cards sounds like such an interesting epitaph for a well-practiced scholar. https://books.openedition.org/pressesenssib/6247

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Interesting choice of translation for "Die Kartei" by the translator. Some may have preferred the more direct "file".

Historically for this specific time period, while index cards were becoming more ubiquitous, most of the prior century researchers had been using larger sheets and frequently called them either slips or sheets based on their relative size.

Beatrice Webb in 1926 (in English) described her method and variously used the words “cards”, “slips”, “quarto”, and “sheets” to describe notes. Her preference was for quarto pages which were larger pages which were likely closer to our current 8.5 x 11” standard than they were to even larger index cards (like 4 x 6".

While I have some dissonance, this translation makes a lot of sense for the specific time period. I also tend to translate the contemporaneous French word “fiches” of that era as “sheets”.

See also: https://hypothes.is/a/OnCHRAexEe2MotOW5cjfwg https://hypothes.is/a/fb-5Ngn4Ee2uKUOwWugMGQ

French notes:<br /> fiches - generally notes, specifically translates as "sheets"<br /> fichier - translates as "file"<br /> fichier boîte - translates as "file box" (aka zettelkasten in German)

Cette question a fait, depuis, l'objet d'un ouvrage : J. -F. Bert, Une histoire de la fiche érudite, 2017 (https://books.openedition.org/pressesenssib/6211).

-- Le site http://portail-michel-foucault.org n'existe plus. -- En revanche, on pourra consulter l'inventaire en ligne du dossier préparatoire des Mots et les choses, réalisé lors du projet ANR La Bibliothèque Foucaldienne (LBF), et actualisé en 2015 : http://lbf-ehess.ens-lyon.fr (projet auquel J. -F. Bert avait participé). -- Un deuxième projet ANR fait suite au projet LBF, le projet Foucault Fiches de Lecture (FFL). Dans ce cadre, les fiches de lecture numérisées par la BnF (qui est désormais propriétaire matérielle des archives de Foucault) seront mises en ligne sur Gallica et sur la future plate-forme publique du projet FFL. Cette mise en ligne est prévue pour 2020. Plus d'informations : https://ffl.hypotheses.org .