ABSTRACT

While the mission of many community archives is often to exhaustively collect and preserve material of their topic area, it is inevitable that some heritage will not be recovered. Lost heritage impacts both public and academic communities where it results in incomplete histories, missing records and restricted access to precarious intangible and physical resources. Heritage will always get lost – but what processes lead to this? This paper outlines some of the ways in which heritage is lost on its journey through private possession, community archives, and institutionalised collections. Archives of intangible cultural heritage, such as music, face particular challenges in preserving the material past of an intangible heritage. This paper uses a case study to describe instances of potential and actual heritage loss found through a joint project between a community archive and an institutional repository working towards the preservation of local jazz heritage in Queensland, Australia.

摘要

尽管许多社区档案馆的任务通常是详尽地收集和保存其主题领域的资料，但不可避免的是某些遗产将无法被收回。失去的遗产会影响公共和学术界，导致历史不完整，记录丢失以及对不稳定的无形和物质资源的获取受到限制。遗产将永远流失–但是导致这一过程的原因是什么？本文概述了通过私人拥有，社区档案和制度化收藏而失去遗产的一些方式。音乐等非物质文化遗产的档案馆在保存非物质文化遗产的材料方面面临着特殊的挑战。