In order to perform a more structured analysis of the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">process</hi> of digitisation and its political dimensions, I will expand upon a scheme proposed by the sociologist Richard Harvey Brown and the librarian Beth Davis-Brown in their seminal 1998 article ‘The Making of Memory’. In their analysis, the Browns explored four ideological and political functions of archival and curatorial work “as these are understood by professional librarians and archivists in the United States” and argued how and why these also constituted “deployments of power” (Brown and Brown 1998). These functions are easily transposed to the digital realm: