Hacking the archives: Archival description in an online world
How do we ensure that “meaning as well as content lies at the end of the road to discovery?” Recordkeepers strive to contextualise, authenticate and preserve evidence. They create detailed descriptive...
View ArticleReinventing Archival Methods: Report and what’s next?
On November 29 and 30 the Recordkeeping Roundtable, in partnership with the Australian Society of Archivists, held a two day workshop in Sydney; ‘Reinventing Archival Methods. Attended by almost 70...
View ArticleReinventing Archival Methods: Issues papers
Background The ‘Reinventing Archival Methods’ workshop, held in November 2012, came about following discussions in our profession in which we shared concerns that that our professional methods are not...
View ArticleReinventing Archival Methods in The Hague
Presentation by Cassie Findlay for ‘Paradigm Shift’, a seminar in honour of Hans Hofman, National Archives of the Netherlands, The Hague, January 27 2014 This paper is based on one of the same name...
View ArticleImproving access to archives and other records: A modest proposal
Come and join us at the next Recordkeeping Roundtable event, in which we will be exploring some ideas for presenting and sharing archival description information to better harness the opportunities of...
View ArticleContexts, connections, access: the glorious possibilities of getting it all...
Dr Tim Sherratt About a century ago in web years I wrote a thing about accessing archives on the web.[1] It’s now full of broken links and naive optimism. But a couple of the arguments I made way back...
View ArticleFull docs or it didn’t happen
Cassie Findlay In the issues paper ‘Access’, developed after The Recordkeeping Roundtable workshop ‘Reinventing Archival Methods’[2], Roundtable co-founder Barbara Reed described the information and...
View ArticleA Sea of Kites: Pushing access to archives with progressive enhancement
Luke Bacon Open access to archives enriches our knowledge of human society, promotes democracy, protects citizens’ rights and enhances the quality of life. —UNESCO Universal Declaration on Archives...
View ArticleReinventing access
Barbara Reed In 1989 David Bearman threw virtual bombs at the practices of the archival profession. In Australia we responded to the emerging issues of digital recordkeeping influenced by Bearman’s...
View ArticleWhat do records do in people’s lives that nothing else does?
Report from ‘Improving access to archives and other records’ – Melbourne edition by Belinda Battley This was the question posed by Anne Gilliland at the end of the discussion this week of Chris...
View ArticleRecordkeeping Roundcasts Episode 5: Personal data, privacy and looking ahead
In part 2 of our chat with Ellen Broad, we talks about privacy and changing attitudes to data about – and of – ourselves. Ellen’s book, Made by Humans: The AI Condition is available from Melbourne...
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