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Transitioning to open access Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Viviane Frings-Hessami
(2021). Transitioning to open access. Archives and Manuscripts: Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 149-150.
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Rancière, political theory and activist community appraisal Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Mark Howard, Katherine Jarvie, Steve Wright
ABSTRACT Researchers must continually discriminate between competing sources of evidence, knowledge and theoretical justification, selecting who we believe to be credible informants and what we perceive as reliable testimony. In the keeping of records, particularly in the act of appraisal, we utilise methods of evaluation that reflect the social processes, institutional procedures, and interpersonal
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The Indigenous Archives Collective position statement on the right of reply to Indigenous knowledges and information held in archives Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-11-28 Indigenous Archives Collective
(2021). The Indigenous Archives Collective position statement on the right of reply to Indigenous knowledges and information held in archives. Archives and Manuscripts: Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 244-252.
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Correction Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-10-06
(2021). Correction. Archives and Manuscripts: Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 266-271.
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Activating and supporting the Tandanya Adelaide Declaration on Indigenous Archives Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-09-05 Rose Barrowcliffe, Lauren Booker, Sue McKemmish, Kirsten Thorpe
ABSTRACT This article discusses opportunities for activating and supporting the International Council on Archives Tandanya – Adelaide Declaration on Indigenous Archives. It discusses the background and context of the Declaration and reflects on pathways for it to be enacted. This article draws from a panel discussion ‘Supporting and Activating the Adelaide Tandanya Declaration on Indigenous Archives’
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Towards Transformative Practice in Out of Home Care: Chartering Rights in Recordkeeping Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Frank Golding, Sue McKemmish, Barbara Reed
ABSTRACT The CLAN Rights Charter asserts rights in records for Care leavers who were taken from their homes and families and communities, and placed in orphanages, children’s Homes, foster Care and other forms of institutions. The Australian Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out of Home Care is a response to the critical, largely unmet recordkeeping and archival needs of both
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Scholarly and professional communication in archives: archival traditions and languages Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Eric Ketelaar, Viviane Frings-Hessami
(2021). Scholarly and professional communication in archives: archival traditions and languages. Archives and Manuscripts: Vol. 49, Scholarly and Professional Communication in Archives: Archival Traditions and Languages, pp. 1-7.
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Archival terminology in the USSR and in post-Soviet countries: continuity and change Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-05-10 Liudmila Varlamova, Elena Latysheva, Orazgul Mukhatova, Dzmitry Varnashou
ABSTRACT The archival schools of the post-Soviet countries discussed in this article (Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine), despite having much in common, are quite different from one another. Their similarity is due to a comprehensive legal and methodological base inherited from the USSR, as well as to a well-established common practice. The principles of normative regulation of archiving were
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Trusting records in the cloud Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Peta Jane Blessing, John Schilling
(2021). Trusting records in the cloud. Archives and Manuscripts: Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 263-265.
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Closing the narrative gap: social media as a tool to reconcile institutional archival narratives with Indigenous counter-narratives Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Rose Barrowcliffe
ABSTRACT Archives are an integral component in the formation of a nation’s historical narratives. They are both repositories and sources of a nation’s evidence of events. Institutional archives have been striving to incorporate equity and social justice for Indigenous peoples but their practice is still heavily skewed to colonists’ perspectives. In this article, the author uses critical race theory
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The clash between domestic and Western traditions: Japanese understanding of the archival principles Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Yo Hashimoto
ABSTRACT Japanese archivists believe that they have incorporated the theory and practice of the West and that one of the most successful results is the method of Phased Archival Processing (PAP), invented for arrangement and description. The first phase of PAP records the existing order or chaos of archival materials. However, it is believed to be indispensable only in Japan. This article argues that
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The language of the GDPR: translation issues and archival issues in four non-English-speaking countries Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Fiorella Foscarini, Giulia Barrera, Aida Škoro Babić, Pekka Henttonen, Jóhanna Gunnlaugsdóttir
ABSTRACT This article examines how key archival terms and concepts included in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been translated into Italian, Slovenian, Finnish, and Icelandic languages. The study identifies a number of translation issues in each language, and reflects on the reasons for such mistakes and their impact on the archival practices affected. Mistranslations appear to be
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Translating the Universal Declaration on Archives: working with archival traditions and languages across the world Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Claude Roberto, Karen Anderson, Margaret Crockett
ABSTRACT Translating archival concepts used in the Universal Declaration on Archives into languages with varying archival traditions is challenging. It is essential to make the UDA understandable for the general public without altering the meaning of the original text while ensuring coherence with archival practices in all countries where the target language is spoken. Twelve translators were surveyed
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Implementing a new archival management system for Queensland State Archives Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Rowena Loo
ABSTRACT In June 2020, Queensland State Archives went live with a new archival management system including new access interfaces for agency and public users, the culmination of a 2-year project. This article reflects on the design and build experience using an agile development methodology.
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‘La Tour de Babel,’ 35 years later: challenges and tools relating to the translation of archival terminology from English to French Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Pauline Soum-Paris
ABSTRACT In 1985, Michel Duchein published ‘Les Archives dans la Tour de Babel: Problèmes de Terminologie Archivistique Internationale’ in La Gazette des Archives. To this day, his article remains the most articulate expression of the difficulties linked to the translation of archival terminology between French and English. It was written as a reaction to the publication of the Dictionary of Archival
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French archivists, the management of records and records management since the nineteenth century: are French recordkeeping tradition and practice incompatible with records management? Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Édouard Vasseur
ABSTRACT French recordkeeping tradition and practice, gradually built up since the nineteenth century, are associated with the principle of provenance (respect des fonds) and with the life cycle approach (théorie des trois âges). The concept of records management seems at first glance unfamiliar to French archivists, as the difficulty of translating the term records into French would attest. This paper
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Michael John Saclier, 1937–2020 Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Pennie Pemberton, Ewan Maidment
(2020). Michael John Saclier, 1937–2020. Archives and Manuscripts: Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 328-345.
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Shadow archives: the lifecycles of African American Literature Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-09-13 Michael Karabinos
(2020). Shadow archives: the lifecycles of African American Literature. Archives and Manuscripts: Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 351-352.
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Re-designing the Archive Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Viviane Frings-Hessami
As I am writing from Melbourne under stage 4 restrictions, we are facing a world full of uncertainties. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we live and the way we work. It has been difficult ...
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Applying user centred design to Archives Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Michael Smith, Janet Villata
ABSTRACT The City of Sydney adopted a user centred design approach to transform its archives systems and processes to meet user needs. Key to the transformation was a project to design and implement a new archives management system, complete with digital preservation functionality and a publicly accessible user portal. This paper examines tensions between archival practice and the user experience,
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Reconstituting ‘the archives of silence’: how to ‘recreate’ slavery and slave trade archives Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Louis-Gilles Pairault
ABSTRACT Records of the slave trade are almost exclusively those of the slave-traders: the silence of the victims is deafening. There is a dearth of contributions from the slaves themselves in documents relating to the slave trade, most of which dealt with administrative or business issues and all of which were produced by the perpetrators rather than by the victims of slavery. Any testimonials from
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Decolonising the archives: languages as enablers and barriers to accessing public archives in South Africa Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Isabel S. Schellnack-Kelly
ABSTRACT Under a democratic dispensation in South Africa, which recognises eleven official languages, language is still used to divide and segregate people and different cultures. The examples of how languages have divided South Africa from colonial times to the current dispensation are evident in archival collections housed by the country’s public archives services. A qualitative study was undertaken
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#Cuéntalo: the path between archival activism and the social archive(s) Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Vicenç Ruiz Gómez, Aniol Maria Vallès
ABSTRACT The goal of this article is to explain our experience, as Society of Catalan Archivists and Records Managers (AAC) members, in the field of social web archiving. To that end, we have structured it in three main parts, the first of which is to show the importance of archival science as a political tool in the framework of the information society. The second part focuses on the path followed
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Records, information and data: exploring the role of record-keeping in an information culture Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-08-31 Gregory Rolan
(2020). Records, information and data: exploring the role of record-keeping in an information culture. Archives and Manuscripts: Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 346-348.
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Another archive is possible Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-07-24 Blanca Bazaco Palacios
ABSTRACT There’s a classic motto that reads like this: Another world is possible. The aim of this study is to reflect: Is another archive possible? Are the archives created with the collection of material from social movements, such as the 15 M movement in Spain, or from the public’s repulsion towards terrorist attacks, as happened with the September 11 terrorist attack in the United States, or the
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The historian activist and the Gift to the Nation project: preserving the records of the Australian Red Cross Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Melanie Oppenheimer
ABSTRACT In 2014, as part of their centenary celebrations, the Australian Red Cross initiated a project in which it transferred archives to various national, state and territory institutions across Australia including the University of Melbourne Archives and the State Library of New South Wales. The transfer of this voluminous (but not complete) collection built on earlier transfers of archives to
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Recording the war effort: immigrant communities in Latin America and the memory of the Great War Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-05-03 María Inés Tato
ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyse the initiatives undertaken by some immigrant communities residing in Latin America to record their mobilisation around the First World War. After the armistice, European communities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and other countries gathered detailed information about their activities during the conflict, published as profusely
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Recordkeeping in the First Australian Imperial Force: the political imperative Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Paul Dalgleish
ABSTRACT Recordkeeping systems develop under the influence of their environment. An organisation’s compilation of records, their form, content and dissemination can be in response to external factors. How the recordkeeping administration of the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF) developed, expanded and changed over time is illustrative of the influences on the creation of records. The administration
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A societal provenance analysis of the First World War service records held at the National Archives of Australia Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Anne-Marie Condé
ABSTRACT This article offers a societal provenance analysis of the First World War personal service records held at the National Archives of Australia as Commonwealth Records Series B2455. It describes the communities of people and communities of records with which the series has its origins. Since creation, the records have enabled intricate interactions between individuals, families, government agencies
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Archives and trails from the First World War: repurposing imperial records of North African and Indian soldiers in Palestine and Syria, 1917-1923 Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Sneha Reddy
ABSTRACT First World War scholars more or less agree on the limitations imposed by archival sources on the study of North African and Indian troops. Conventional methods to find ‘the voice’ of the soldier do not apply in this case and the scarcity of records partly explains why so little is written. So, what opportunities are there in such an endeavour? This article argues for the need to decolonise
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Engaging with war records: archival histories and historical practice Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Bart Ziino, Anne-Marie Condé
The First World War (1914–1918) produced an explosion of record making and record keeping, from state agencies conducting a war of unparalleled scale, to individuals and families producing testaments of experience which also often became objects of remembrance and memorialisation. The effort to document has a history; so too does the determination – or otherwise – to retain those records, organise
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Archives and the Australian Great War centenary: retrospect and prospect Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Michael Piggott
ABSTRACT Based on a keynote address to the 2018 International Society for First World War Studies conference, the author’s survey of a centenary of archival endeavour comprises four time periods and two themes. It highlights the unique role of the Australian War Memorial and its initial documentation priorities favouring Dr C.E.W. Bean’s official war history, the battlefront and the war dead. A post-centenary
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From Belgium to The Hague via Berlin and Moscow: documenting war crimes and the quest for international justice, 1919-2019 Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Delphine Lauwers
ABSTRACT Exploring new sources on the Great War a hundred years after it ended is a unique and exciting experience for any First World War historian. The very nature of the documents that we are dealing with in the present case makes it even more thrilling: hundreds of investigation and prosecution files documenting the invasion and occupation of Belgium, produced by both military and civil jurisdictions
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Of sentimental value: collecting personal diaries from the First World War Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Elise Edmonds
ABSTRACT Weeks after the Armistice was declared, Principal Librarian William Ifould of the Public Library of New South Wales recommended to Library Trustees that the institution begin to collect ‘private and official documents’ produced during the war. By early December 1918, advertisements began to appear in Australian and New Zealand newspapers, encouraging returning soldiers to sell their personal
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Permanent Record by Edward Snowden. New York. Metropolitan Books, 2019, viii, 239 pp., $US17.99 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-250-23723-1 Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-03-30 Mark Brogan
Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record is the story of a whistleblower’s betrayal of covert intelligence gathering programmes originating in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security A...
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Ko Taranaki te Maunga Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-03-22 Katrina Tamaira
(2020). Ko Taranaki te Maunga. Archives and Manuscripts: Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 353-355.
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The end of archival ideas? Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Viviane Frings-Hessami
In May 2019, a well-known archival commentator posted on Twitter a message that questioned how it was possible that a ‘dude’ that they did not know could suggest that we had come to ‘the end of archival ideas’ and dismiss all the work done by the current wave of archival scholars. That tweet was retweeted several dozens of times by their followers. It was referring to a book chapter written by Craig
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A trauma-informed approach to managing archives: a new online course Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Nicola Laurent, Kirsten Wright
ABSTRACT This article discusses the development of a new online training course, A trauma-informed approach to managing archives, for the Australian Society of Archivists. It outlines why such a course is needed, who its audience is, and provides a brief overview of what is covered. Trauma is pervasive and affects everyone, and this course provides information and training materials about what this
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A matter of facts: the value of evidence in an information age Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Michael Piggott
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Recordkeeping informatics for a networked age Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-09-19 Charles Jeurgens
Information-philosopher Luciano Floridi once coined the neologism OnLife to characterise our current way of life in what he calls a hyperconnected reality. In his attempts to understand the impact ...
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A history of archival practice, 1st Edition, Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-09-16 Richard Lehane
clearer in explaining the terminology and concepts. A list of the terminology they use with a clear reference to the articles in which these were discussed would not only have been helpful, but is indispensable. Another disappointing deficiency, in particular for a scholarly publication, is the poor annotation, the lack of an index and the absence of a comprehensive list of references. Then it would
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The forensic imagination: interdisciplinary approaches to tracing creativity in writers’ born-digital archives Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-08-11 Paul Gooding, Jos Smith, Justine Mann
ABSTRACT In 2013, Matthew Kirschenbaum advocated for increased collaboration between digital archivists and digital humanities specialists to make the most out of born-digital archives. Since then, researchers and archivists have experimented with innovative interfaces for access to writer’s archives that emerge from individual research cultures and practices. Simultaneously, archives such as the British
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Appraising, processing, and providing access to email in contemporary literary archives Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-08-11 J. Schneider, C. Adams, S. DeBauche, R. Echols, C. McKean, J. Moran, D. Waugh
ABSTRACT The email of contemporary literary figures is ripe for research by scholars, and of broad interest to the general public, but can also present many challenges to cultural memory institutions that seek to appraise, process and provide access to this rich archival material. This article explores how five institutions across the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand are using ePADD, free
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‘Missing Presumed’: computer games and digital adventures in the Colin Smythe/Terry Pratchett Collection Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-08-11 Maria Castrillo
ABSTRACT This essay explores the intersections between literature and new media through the lens of the Discworld computer games based on Sir Terry Pratchett’s novels. Although Pratchett was one of the twentieth century’s most successful authors in the English language, he has been largely absent from literary criticism, chiefly because he was and continues to be perceived as a popular author, a writer
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Literary archives in the digital age: issues and encounters with Australian writers Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-08-11 Kevin Molloy
ABSTRACT In considering what constitutes the ideal born-digital literary archive and what interventions are possible, or even necessary, from a collecting institution in determining the make-up and future accessibility of these archives, this article examines, through a set of case studies, the collections and creative methodologies of four Australian writers – Peter Carey, Sonya Hartnett, Alex Miller
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Negotiating the born-digital: a problem of search Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-08-11 Jane Winters, Andrew Prescott
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
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After the digital revolution: working with emails and born-digital records in literary and publishers’ archives Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-08-11 Lise Jaillant
After the digital revolution: Working with emails and born-digital records in literary and publishers’ archives
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Observing the author–editor relationship: recordkeeping and literary scholarship in dialogue Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-08-11 Jenny Bunn, Samantha J. Rayner
ABSTRACT In the call for papers for this special issue, a lack of dialogue was noted between ‘archivists and literary scholars’. This article has arisen from a collaboration across that divide, between two individuals who between them embody multiple identities of archivist and publisher, archival and literary scholar. The purpose of this collaboration was to establish a common frame of reference which
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Authenticity in places of belonging: community collective memory as a complex, adaptive recordkeeping system Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Belinda Battley
ABSTRACT As archivists, we aim to preserve community records for the future, putting them in boxes in secure repositories to save them from the damaging effects of everyday wear and tear. However, recent research shows a community itself acts as a complex, adaptive recordkeeping system that maintains records through networks that include personal relationships, cultural practices, stories, embodied
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Facebook is creating records — but who is managing them? Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-06-05 Dominique Glassman
ABSTRACT Facebook is creating records from the data that users are pouring into their profiles. This paper examines Facebook’s data practices in the context of record creation through the theoretical lens of the Records Continuum Model. Three stakeholder groups are identified in record creation: the users, the site, and third-party platform participants. This paper analyses Facebook’s data sharing
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Archival practices in Early Modern Spain: transformation, destruction and (re)construction of family archives in the Canary Islands Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-05-22 Judit Gutiérrez-de-Armas
ABSTRACT The Canary Islands were conquered from the aboriginal population and colonised in the fifteenth century. This process subjected its inhabitants to the Castilian legal framework, in which evidence of ownership was demanded through documentary proof. Archives, therefore, proliferated in the new territory as a necessity to demonstrate, prove and preserve privileges and patrimony. At the same
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Taking archives to the people: an examination of public programs in the National Archives of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-05-12 Nampombe Saurombe
ABSTRACT Archives serve as society’s collective memory in so far as they provide evidence of the past and promote accountability and transparency of past actions. An appreciation of archives would then result in citizens linking archival records with their identity, history, civic duty and cultural heritage. However, research in Eastern and Southern Africa indicates that most citizens are unaware of
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Memory-making: a review of the Community Heritage Grant Program 1994–2018 Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-04-25 Leisa Gibbons
ABSTRACT The Community Heritage Grant Program (CHG) run by the National Library of Australia is an institution in the Australian cultural heritage landscape, providing foundational support to many small organisations who work in community memory-making. In this paper, the author presents the findings of her research into who and what is being funded by the CHG Program, and what the program highlights
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Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-04-25 Catherine Robinson
Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia is a fascinating biography of commercial photographer Ernest Lund Mitchell, intertwined with a detailed examination of how his photographs, particularly of Western Australia and Queensland, were used to promote Australia to the Empire. The work is based on author Joanna Sassoon’s PhD thesis and journal articles. Joanna Sassoon has extensive
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An archive of humanity: the NSW Division of the Australian Red Cross, 1914–2014 Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-04-22 Alison Wishart, Michael Carney
ABSTRACT To commemorate its centenary, the NSW Division of the Australian Red Cross decided to donate its archive to the State Library of New South Wales in 2014. The State Library is honoured to be the recipient of these significant and extensive archives. In this article, the authors outline the process the librarians and archivists used to manage the donation and the importance of communication
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Digitised, digital and static archives and the struggles in the Middle East and North Africa Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-04-03 C. R. Pennell
ABSTRACT This paper examines the differences between archived material that was always a digital record and hard-copy archives that were subsequently digitised. It considers the rationales behind the digitisation of archives in established western democracies as digitised collections and ad-hoc files are made available online. It compares this with how the archives of regimes in the Middle East and
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Queering Archives: Historical Unravellings, Radical Histories Review Special Issue Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-03-31 Lachlan Glanville
Editors Daniel Marshall, Kevin P Murphy and Zeb Tortorici’s introduction to Queering Archives: Historical Unravellings posits that ‘in a catalog of queer archives you can find not only a listing of...
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Diversity’s discontents: in search of an archive of the oppressed Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-03-28 Jarrett M. Drake
ABSTRACT Australian and US-based archivists have recently begun to confront their complicity in a documentary landscape that excludes and erases the voices and views of minority, oppressed and poor communities. Archival professional organisations in both countries attempt to confront this issue by focusing on the homogeneity of the profession, specifically through using the discourse of diversity.
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Metadata as a machine for feeling in Germaine Greer’s archive Archives and Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-02-10 Millicent Weber, Rachel Buchanan
ABSTRACT What happens when a human coder meets a machine one? This article explores this question with reference to the archive of Professor Germaine Greer: Australian-born feminist, performer, scholar, and professional controversialist. It does so by staging two very different data encounters with the 70,000-word finding aid for the print journalism series, a key component of Greer’s archive. The