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2024
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Archival meta-metadata: revision history and positionality of finding aids.
King, O. C.
Archival Science, 24(3): 509–529. September 2024.
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@article{king_archival_2024,
title = {Archival meta-metadata: revision history and positionality of finding aids},
volume = {24},
issn = {1389-0166, 1573-7500},
shorttitle = {Archival meta-metadata},
url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10502-024-09443-z},
doi = {10.1007/s10502-024-09443-z},
abstract = {Abstract
This article starts from two observations about archival description. First, creating finding aids requires significant judgment and interpretation, and is therefore inevitably influenced by the positionalities—the perspectives, personal histories, and social identities—of the archivists. Second, finding aids occasionally call for revision, sometimes to fit a new data standard or reflect an evolving collection, but also to correct errors, reduce bias, and remove harmful language. In light of these observations, this article has two aims. First, it develops and presents a theoretical rationale for recording metadata about finding aids, including revision history and authorship, arguing for transparency about positionality as a response to recognizing the infeasibility of impartiality. Second, it presents the results of a survey of state archivists in the US, who were asked about their descriptive practices and their attitudes regarding disclosing their authorship of finding aids. Results of the survey reveal diverse practices, as well as some hesitation to embrace expressions of positionality in the context of description. The article closes with a discussion of options for conceptualizing metadata about finding aids and the professional role of archivists, concluding with two general recommendations.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2025-02-20},
journal = {Archival Science},
author = {King, Owen C.},
month = sep,
year = {2024},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {509--529},
}
Abstract This article starts from two observations about archival description. First, creating finding aids requires significant judgment and interpretation, and is therefore inevitably influenced by the positionalities—the perspectives, personal histories, and social identities—of the archivists. Second, finding aids occasionally call for revision, sometimes to fit a new data standard or reflect an evolving collection, but also to correct errors, reduce bias, and remove harmful language. In light of these observations, this article has two aims. First, it develops and presents a theoretical rationale for recording metadata about finding aids, including revision history and authorship, arguing for transparency about positionality as a response to recognizing the infeasibility of impartiality. Second, it presents the results of a survey of state archivists in the US, who were asked about their descriptive practices and their attitudes regarding disclosing their authorship of finding aids. Results of the survey reveal diverse practices, as well as some hesitation to embrace expressions of positionality in the context of description. The article closes with a discussion of options for conceptualizing metadata about finding aids and the professional role of archivists, concluding with two general recommendations.
2023
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Green Ribbon and Blue Ribbon Stories: Applying a Bidjara Way of Knowing to Understanding Records.
Wilson, L.; and Barrowcliffe, R.
Archives & Manuscripts, 50(2): 43–59. June 2023.
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@article{wilson_green_2023,
title = {Green {Ribbon} and {Blue} {Ribbon} {Stories}: {Applying} a {Bidjara} {Way} of {Knowing} to {Understanding} {Records}},
volume = {50},
issn = {2164-6058, 0157-6895},
shorttitle = {Green {Ribbon} and {Blue} {Ribbon} {Stories}},
url = {https://publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/asa/article/view/10921},
doi = {10.37683/asa.v50.10921},
abstract = {Archival turn scholars have argued that to understand a record one needs to consider its broader provenance. Theoretical and conceptual frameworks such as the record continuum model, parallel provenance and societal provenance have aided in debunking the myth of linear, objective and neutral records. While these theories and concepts support the inclusion of Indigenous worldviews in recordkeeping praxis, Indigenous worldviews have been noticeably absent in the formulation of these and other archival theorisations. This article introduces the green ribbon and blue ribbon stories, an Indigenous, specifically Bidjara, conceptual framework for appraising and interpreting archival records. This conceptual framework has been derived from Bidjara ways of being and knowing. This article consists of three parts: the first introduces the conceptual framework and explains its background. The second discusses the intellectual and cultural authority of the framework and protocols for its use, and the final part of the article demonstrates how the green ribbon and blue ribbon stories’ conceptual framework applies to archives.},
number = {2},
urldate = {2023-09-26},
journal = {Archives \& Manuscripts},
author = {Wilson, Leann and Barrowcliffe, Rose},
month = jun,
year = {2023},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {43--59},
}
Archival turn scholars have argued that to understand a record one needs to consider its broader provenance. Theoretical and conceptual frameworks such as the record continuum model, parallel provenance and societal provenance have aided in debunking the myth of linear, objective and neutral records. While these theories and concepts support the inclusion of Indigenous worldviews in recordkeeping praxis, Indigenous worldviews have been noticeably absent in the formulation of these and other archival theorisations. This article introduces the green ribbon and blue ribbon stories, an Indigenous, specifically Bidjara, conceptual framework for appraising and interpreting archival records. This conceptual framework has been derived from Bidjara ways of being and knowing. This article consists of three parts: the first introduces the conceptual framework and explains its background. The second discusses the intellectual and cultural authority of the framework and protocols for its use, and the final part of the article demonstrates how the green ribbon and blue ribbon stories’ conceptual framework applies to archives.
Files, Families and the Nation: An Archival History, Perhaps.
Silverstein, J.
Journal of Australian Studies, 47(4): 721–735. October 2023.
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@article{silverstein_files_2023,
title = {Files, {Families} and the {Nation}: {An} {Archival} {History}, {Perhaps}},
volume = {47},
issn = {1444-3058, 1835-6419},
shorttitle = {Files, {Families} and the {Nation}},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14443058.2023.2240344},
doi = {10.1080/14443058.2023.2240344},
language = {en},
number = {4},
urldate = {2023-12-21},
journal = {Journal of Australian Studies},
author = {Silverstein, Jordana},
month = oct,
year = {2023},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {721--735},
}
A Green New Deal for Archives.
Tansey, E.
Technical Report Council on Library and Information Resources, 2023.
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link
bibtex
@techreport{tansey_green_2023,
title = {A {Green} {New} {Deal} for {Archives}},
url = {https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/a-green-new-deal-for-archives/},
institution = {Council on Library and Information Resources},
author = {Tansey, Eira},
year = {2023},
keywords = {Read},
}
2022
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Disorderly Distribution: The Dispersal of Queen Mother Audley Moore’s Archives and the Illegibility of Black Women Intellectuals.
Farmer, A. D.
The Black Scholar, 52(4): 5–15. October 2022.
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@article{farmer_disorderly_2022,
title = {Disorderly {Distribution}: {The} {Dispersal} of {Queen} {Mother} {Audley} {Moore}’s {Archives} and the {Illegibility} of {Black} {Women} {Intellectuals}},
volume = {52},
issn = {0006-4246, 2162-5387},
shorttitle = {Disorderly {Distribution}},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00064246.2022.2111648},
doi = {10.1080/00064246.2022.2111648},
language = {en},
number = {4},
urldate = {2022-11-17},
journal = {The Black Scholar},
author = {Farmer, Ashley D.},
month = oct,
year = {2022},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {5--15},
}
2021
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Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives.
Dunley, R.; and Pugh, J.
Twentieth Century British History. 2021.
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@article{dunley_archive_2021,
title = {Do {Archive} {Catalogues} {Make} {History}?: {Exploring} {Interactions} between {Historians} and {Archives}},
issn = {0955-2359, 1477-4674},
shorttitle = {Do {Archive} {Catalogues} {Make} {History}?},
url = {https://academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/tcbh/hwab021/6333542},
doi = {10.1093/tcbh/hwab021},
abstract = {Abstract
Archival research is foundational to the writing of most works of academic history and is a central part of the professional identity of historians. Despite this, we know very little about what historians do in archives, and how it shapes the process of writing history. This article uses quantitative data from The National Archives of the UK to analyse one part of this puzzle, namely how historians choose what to look at in an archive. It explores the nature of archive catalogues, and their relationship to the collections they describe. It goes on to assess how catalogues shape what historians choose to view when they visit an archive, and concludes by looking more widely at historians’ information seeking practices. Through this analysis the article will argue that external factors have a far greater impact on archival research, and through it the writing of history, than is traditionally acknowledged, and as such historians need to pay considerably more attention to the ways in which their access to archives is shaped by these factors.},
language = {en},
urldate = {2021-08-03},
journal = {Twentieth Century British History},
author = {Dunley, Richard and Pugh, Jo},
year = {2021},
keywords = {Read},
}
Abstract Archival research is foundational to the writing of most works of academic history and is a central part of the professional identity of historians. Despite this, we know very little about what historians do in archives, and how it shapes the process of writing history. This article uses quantitative data from The National Archives of the UK to analyse one part of this puzzle, namely how historians choose what to look at in an archive. It explores the nature of archive catalogues, and their relationship to the collections they describe. It goes on to assess how catalogues shape what historians choose to view when they visit an archive, and concludes by looking more widely at historians’ information seeking practices. Through this analysis the article will argue that external factors have a far greater impact on archival research, and through it the writing of history, than is traditionally acknowledged, and as such historians need to pay considerably more attention to the ways in which their access to archives is shaped by these factors.
Critical Digital Archives: A Review from Archival Studies.
Carbajal, I. A.; and Caswell, M.
The American Historical Review, 126(3): 1102–1120. November 2021.
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abstract
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@article{carbajal_critical_2021,
title = {Critical {Digital} {Archives}: {A} {Review} from {Archival} {Studies}},
volume = {126},
issn = {0002-8762, 1937-5239},
shorttitle = {Critical {Digital} {Archives}},
url = {https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/126/3/1102/6421763},
doi = {10.1093/ahr/rhab359},
abstract = {Abstract
Given the blurring of boundaries between historians and archivists in the digital realm, this article urges historians to pay more attention to discussions surrounding digital records and archival practices emerging from critical archival studies. More specifically, this article identifies and summarizes seven key themes and corresponding debates about digital records in contemporary archival studies scholarship: (1) materiality, (2) appraisal, (3) context, (4) use, (5) scale, (6) relationships, and (7) sustainability. A deeper knowledge of digital archival theory and practice—how records came to be in digital archives, the infrastructures that maintain them, and the tools necessary to provide access to and context for them—is not ancillary to historical work, but provides important context to do digital history better.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2022-07-06},
journal = {The American Historical Review},
author = {Carbajal, Itza A. and Caswell, Michelle},
month = nov,
year = {2021},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {1102--1120},
}
Abstract Given the blurring of boundaries between historians and archivists in the digital realm, this article urges historians to pay more attention to discussions surrounding digital records and archival practices emerging from critical archival studies. More specifically, this article identifies and summarizes seven key themes and corresponding debates about digital records in contemporary archival studies scholarship: (1) materiality, (2) appraisal, (3) context, (4) use, (5) scale, (6) relationships, and (7) sustainability. A deeper knowledge of digital archival theory and practice—how records came to be in digital archives, the infrastructures that maintain them, and the tools necessary to provide access to and context for them—is not ancillary to historical work, but provides important context to do digital history better.
The temple of history: historians and the sacralisation of archival work.
Jones, M.
History Australia, 18(4): 676–693. October 2021.
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@article{jones_temple_2021,
title = {The temple of history: historians and the sacralisation of archival work},
volume = {18},
issn = {1449-0854, 1833-4881},
shorttitle = {The temple of history},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14490854.2021.1988650},
doi = {10.1080/14490854.2021.1988650},
language = {en},
number = {4},
urldate = {2022-07-06},
journal = {History Australia},
author = {Jones, Mike},
month = oct,
year = {2021},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {676--693},
}
Negotiating Online Access: Perspectives on Ethical Issues in Digital Collections.
Garcia-Spitz, C.; and Geraci, N.
Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 3(2). October 2021.
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@article{garcia-spitz_negotiating_2021,
title = {Negotiating {Online} {Access}: {Perspectives} on {Ethical} {Issues} in {Digital} {Collections}},
volume = {3},
issn = {2572-1364},
shorttitle = {Negotiating {Online} {Access}},
url = {https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/130},
doi = {10.24242/jclis.v3i2.130},
abstract = {How do we act as responsible stewards of archival collections in the digital realm, with a reflective eye toward issues of privacy, ethics, and cultural sensitivity; while working with technological infrastructures that tend not to share these priorities? What strategies can be used to work within and around the limitations of existing systems, especially in regard to the nuances of privacy and access, and to advocate for further development that treats these concerns as core requirements rather than special cases?
This article will provide practical considerations around the real-world work of building ethical digital collections. Framed as an asynchronous, semi-structured interview between two archivists working in academic libraries with digital collections management and culturally sensitive materials, we will draw examples from work with anthropological archives and academic-community archives partnerships. How do we do this work within our existing systems for digital asset management and aggregation, and how can we make them better?
Pre-print first published online 10/14/2021},
number = {2},
urldate = {2022-09-06},
journal = {Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies},
author = {Garcia-Spitz, Cristela and Geraci, Noah},
month = oct,
year = {2021},
keywords = {Read},
}
How do we act as responsible stewards of archival collections in the digital realm, with a reflective eye toward issues of privacy, ethics, and cultural sensitivity; while working with technological infrastructures that tend not to share these priorities? What strategies can be used to work within and around the limitations of existing systems, especially in regard to the nuances of privacy and access, and to advocate for further development that treats these concerns as core requirements rather than special cases? This article will provide practical considerations around the real-world work of building ethical digital collections. Framed as an asynchronous, semi-structured interview between two archivists working in academic libraries with digital collections management and culturally sensitive materials, we will draw examples from work with anthropological archives and academic-community archives partnerships. How do we do this work within our existing systems for digital asset management and aggregation, and how can we make them better? Pre-print first published online 10/14/2021
The dangers of libraries and archives for Indigenous Australian workers: Investigating the question of Indigenous cultural safety.
Thorpe, K.
IFLA Journal. January 2021.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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abstract
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@article{thorpe_dangers_2021,
title = {The dangers of libraries and archives for {Indigenous} {Australian} workers: {Investigating} the question of {Indigenous} cultural safety},
issn = {0340-0352},
shorttitle = {The dangers of libraries and archives for {Indigenous} {Australian} workers},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0340035220987574},
doi = {10.1177/0340035220987574},
abstract = {Libraries and archives are troubling spaces for Indigenous Australian people as they are sites of renewal and truth-telling as well as sites of deep tension. The topic of people’s cultural safety in libraries and archives is one that is being commonly discussed. However, limited research has been undertaken on the topic to reveal the issues and concerns of people who work on the front line in these institutions. This article discusses the dangers of libraries and archives for Indigenous Australian workers by introducing doctoral research on the topic of Indigenous archiving and cultural safety: Examining the role of decolonisation and self-determination in libraries and archives. The aim of the article is to bring greater visibility to the voice and experiences of Indigenous Australian people who are working to facilitate access to collections in libraries and archives.},
language = {en},
urldate = {2021-02-03},
journal = {IFLA Journal},
author = {Thorpe, Kirsten},
month = jan,
year = {2021},
note = {Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd},
keywords = {Read},
}
Libraries and archives are troubling spaces for Indigenous Australian people as they are sites of renewal and truth-telling as well as sites of deep tension. The topic of people’s cultural safety in libraries and archives is one that is being commonly discussed. However, limited research has been undertaken on the topic to reveal the issues and concerns of people who work on the front line in these institutions. This article discusses the dangers of libraries and archives for Indigenous Australian workers by introducing doctoral research on the topic of Indigenous archiving and cultural safety: Examining the role of decolonisation and self-determination in libraries and archives. The aim of the article is to bring greater visibility to the voice and experiences of Indigenous Australian people who are working to facilitate access to collections in libraries and archives.
2020
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Cultural Humility as a Framework for Anti-Oppressive Archival Description.
Tai, J.
Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 3. 2020.
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abstract
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@article{tai_cultural_2020,
title = {Cultural {Humility} as a {Framework} for {Anti}-{Oppressive} {Archival} {Description}},
volume = {3},
url = {https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/120},
abstract = {This essay argues for the necessity for mainstream archival institutions to audit for oppressive, euphemistic or misrepresentative language within their archival description, and will advocate for the redescription of collections to be undertaken through a framework of cultural humility. Prioritizing critical self-reflection, institutional accountability, and by recognizing and challenging power imbalances, archivists can facilitate the rectification of false historical narratives and oppressive language that continues to be created and remain in the collection description of mainstream archives. This article will examine what steps are necessary to describe and re-describe material through a lens of cultural humility, foregrounding the development of an ethical descriptive practice as an iterative and cyclical process rather than one that is linear with a finite date of achievement. The resulting recommendations will serve as a call for archivists and archival institutions to continually develop a descriptive practice that is transparent, critically self-reflective and community-centered.
Pre-print first published online 10/01/2020},
language = {en-US},
urldate = {2020-10-07},
journal = {Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies},
author = {Tai, Jessica},
year = {2020},
keywords = {Read},
}
This essay argues for the necessity for mainstream archival institutions to audit for oppressive, euphemistic or misrepresentative language within their archival description, and will advocate for the redescription of collections to be undertaken through a framework of cultural humility. Prioritizing critical self-reflection, institutional accountability, and by recognizing and challenging power imbalances, archivists can facilitate the rectification of false historical narratives and oppressive language that continues to be created and remain in the collection description of mainstream archives. This article will examine what steps are necessary to describe and re-describe material through a lens of cultural humility, foregrounding the development of an ethical descriptive practice as an iterative and cyclical process rather than one that is linear with a finite date of achievement. The resulting recommendations will serve as a call for archivists and archival institutions to continually develop a descriptive practice that is transparent, critically self-reflective and community-centered. Pre-print first published online 10/01/2020
The weaponization of web archives: Data craft and COVID-19 publics.
Acker, A.; and Chaiet, M.
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 1(3). 2020.
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abstract
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@article{acker_weaponization_2020,
title = {The weaponization of web archives: {Data} craft and {COVID}-19 publics},
volume = {1},
shorttitle = {The weaponization of web archives},
url = {https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-weaponization-of-web-archives-data-craft-and-covid-19-publics/},
doi = {10.37016/mr-2020-41},
abstract = {An unprecedented volume of harmful health misinformation linked to the coronavirus pandemic has led to the appearance of misinformation tactics that leverage},
language = {en-US},
number = {3},
urldate = {2020-10-07},
journal = {Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review},
author = {Acker, Amelia and Chaiet, Mitch},
year = {2020},
keywords = {Read},
}
An unprecedented volume of harmful health misinformation linked to the coronavirus pandemic has led to the appearance of misinformation tactics that leverage
Makerspaces as Archives/Archives as Makerspaces: Making and the Materiality of Archival Practice.
Mattock, L. K.
In Bastian, J.; and Yakel, E., editor(s),
Defining a Discipline: Archival Research and Practice in the 21st Century. Society of American Archivists, Chicago, 2020.
link
bibtex
@incollection{mattock_makerspaces_2020,
address = {Chicago},
title = {Makerspaces as {Archives}/{Archives} as {Makerspaces}: {Making} and the {Materiality} of {Archival} {Practice}},
booktitle = {Defining a {Discipline}: {Archival} {Research} and {Practice} in the 21st {Century}},
publisher = {Society of American Archivists},
author = {Mattock, Lindsay Kistler},
editor = {Bastian, Jeanette and Yakel, Elizabeth},
year = {2020},
keywords = {Read},
}
Material Provocations in the Archives.
Stuchel, D.
Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 3(1). May 2020.
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doi
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bibtex
abstract
@article{stuchel_material_2020,
title = {Material {Provocations} in the {Archives}},
volume = {3},
issn = {2572-1364},
url = {https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/103},
doi = {10.24242/jclis.v3i1.103},
abstract = {As a name, “Anthropocene” would seem to signal that this geologic epoch is both because of humans and about humans. The latter implication draws on pervasive cultural ideas about nature which underlie the Anthropocene and its climatic impacts, namely nature as an extractable, endlessly-renewable resource. While scholars in the environmental humanities, animal studies, and critical plant studies have been quick to both diagnose and propose new directions for our engagements with the material universe, scholarship on archival materiality has continued to focus on the archives as an institution for and about human intellectual endeavors. In other words, the archives continues to be an extractable resource. Within the archives animal, plant, and abiotic changes which work against projects of human history are seen as failures, infestations, or disasters – they can never be properly archival. This essay offers a potential corrective to anthropocentric archiving, by bringing together Jane Bennett’s new materialist project of “vibrant matter,” Michael Marder’s vegetal philosophy, and Caitlin DeSilvey’s curation of decay to suggest avenues of engaging archival materiality as meaningful and provocative. As an analytic schema, this focus on the ‘vibrant archives’ does not aim to save records from planetary changes but to begin the work of re-thinking archival materiality (and its destruction) within the context of the Anthropocene.
Pre-print first published online 04/07/2019},
number = {1},
urldate = {2023-01-30},
journal = {Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies},
author = {Stuchel, Dani},
month = may,
year = {2020},
keywords = {Read},
}
As a name, “Anthropocene” would seem to signal that this geologic epoch is both because of humans and about humans. The latter implication draws on pervasive cultural ideas about nature which underlie the Anthropocene and its climatic impacts, namely nature as an extractable, endlessly-renewable resource. While scholars in the environmental humanities, animal studies, and critical plant studies have been quick to both diagnose and propose new directions for our engagements with the material universe, scholarship on archival materiality has continued to focus on the archives as an institution for and about human intellectual endeavors. In other words, the archives continues to be an extractable resource. Within the archives animal, plant, and abiotic changes which work against projects of human history are seen as failures, infestations, or disasters – they can never be properly archival. This essay offers a potential corrective to anthropocentric archiving, by bringing together Jane Bennett’s new materialist project of “vibrant matter,” Michael Marder’s vegetal philosophy, and Caitlin DeSilvey’s curation of decay to suggest avenues of engaging archival materiality as meaningful and provocative. As an analytic schema, this focus on the ‘vibrant archives’ does not aim to save records from planetary changes but to begin the work of re-thinking archival materiality (and its destruction) within the context of the Anthropocene. Pre-print first published online 04/07/2019
2019
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From a silent past to a spoken future. Black women’s voices in the archival process.
van der Merwe, R.
Archives and Records, 40(3): 239–258. September 2019.
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doi
link
bibtex
3 downloads
@article{van_der_merwe_silent_2019,
title = {From a silent past to a spoken future. {Black} women’s voices in the archival process},
volume = {40},
issn = {2325-7962, 2325-7989},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23257962.2017.1388224},
doi = {10.1080/23257962.2017.1388224},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2020-08-28},
journal = {Archives and Records},
author = {van der Merwe, Ria},
month = sep,
year = {2019},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {239--258},
}
Dusting for fingerprints: Introducing feminist standpoint appraisal.
Caswell, M.
Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 3. 2019.
Paper
link
bibtex
abstract
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@article{caswell_dusting_2019,
title = {Dusting for fingerprints: {Introducing} feminist standpoint appraisal},
volume = {3},
url = {https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/113},
abstract = {This article argues that feminist standpoint epistemologies help us rethink both the process by which archival value is determined and the archivists’ role in that process, leading towards a new methodology, epistemology, and political strategy for appraisal, which I call “feminist standpoint appraisal.” Feminist standpoint appraisal inverts dominant appraisal hierarchies that value records created by those in power to justify and consolidate their power at the expense of records created by the oppressed to document and resist their oppression and imagine liberation. As such, feminist standpoint appraisal explicitly and unapologetically gives epistemological weight (thereby assigning value to) records created and preserved by, and potentially activated in service to, those individuals and communities oppressed by capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. Furthermore, feminist standpoint appraisal shifts our thinking about the position of the archivist, from a purportedly objective “view from nowhere” (which in fact belies a dominant but unnamed white male position), towards a socially located, culturally situated agent who centers ways of being and knowing from the margins. In valuing the unique insights gleaned by people on the margins, feminist standpoint appraisal refuses the notion that archivists from oppressed communities must overcome their positionalities to meet institutional goals and professional demands for neutrality, but rather, values and leverages the insights gained from outsider status, viewing the attendant insights as assets, rather than as detriments, to the archival endeavor. Furthermore, feminist standpoint appraisal calls on archivists who inhabit dominant identities to acknowledge their oppressor standpoints and actively work to dismantle them.
Pre-print first published online 08/26/2019},
language = {en-US},
urldate = {2020-08-28},
journal = {Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies},
author = {Caswell, Michelle},
year = {2019},
keywords = {Read},
}
This article argues that feminist standpoint epistemologies help us rethink both the process by which archival value is determined and the archivists’ role in that process, leading towards a new methodology, epistemology, and political strategy for appraisal, which I call “feminist standpoint appraisal.” Feminist standpoint appraisal inverts dominant appraisal hierarchies that value records created by those in power to justify and consolidate their power at the expense of records created by the oppressed to document and resist their oppression and imagine liberation. As such, feminist standpoint appraisal explicitly and unapologetically gives epistemological weight (thereby assigning value to) records created and preserved by, and potentially activated in service to, those individuals and communities oppressed by capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. Furthermore, feminist standpoint appraisal shifts our thinking about the position of the archivist, from a purportedly objective “view from nowhere” (which in fact belies a dominant but unnamed white male position), towards a socially located, culturally situated agent who centers ways of being and knowing from the margins. In valuing the unique insights gleaned by people on the margins, feminist standpoint appraisal refuses the notion that archivists from oppressed communities must overcome their positionalities to meet institutional goals and professional demands for neutrality, but rather, values and leverages the insights gained from outsider status, viewing the attendant insights as assets, rather than as detriments, to the archival endeavor. Furthermore, feminist standpoint appraisal calls on archivists who inhabit dominant identities to acknowledge their oppressor standpoints and actively work to dismantle them. Pre-print first published online 08/26/2019
Archival encounters: Rethinking access and care in digital colonial archives.
Agostinho, D.
Archival Science, 19(2): 141–165. June 2019.
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@article{agostinho_archival_2019,
title = {Archival encounters: {Rethinking} access and care in digital colonial archives},
volume = {19},
copyright = {2019 Springer Nature B.V.},
issn = {1573-7519},
shorttitle = {Archival encounters},
url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-019-09312-0},
doi = {10.1007/s10502-019-09312-0},
abstract = {The year of 2017 marked the centennial of Denmark’s sale of the former Danish West Indies to the United States\ of America, today the US Virgin Islands (USVI). The colonial archives figured prominently during the year-long commemorations in Denmark, as the Danish National Archives digitized and publicly released the colonial records of the islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John. Drawing on cultural theories as well as debates in archival science, this article proposes the notion of ‘archival encounter’ to centre the ethical-epistemological challenges of digitization and to emphasize the intersected problematics raised by the encounter between the colonial, the archival and the digital. The article begins by revisiting the history of these archives in order to situate the digitization of these records within debates on provenance, custody and access. It then introduces some of the debates taking place within the field of Atlantic slavery, as well as feminist and critical race theories, to argue that the digitization of the USVI records recasts questions about the limitations and possibilities of colonial archives. Furthermore, the article contends that digitality and datafication are indebted to colonial histories of quantification that structure the technological encounter with the colonial archive. Finally, the article builds on these theorizations to amplify recent calls for a feminist ethics of care in archival praxis. Drawing on postcolonial critiques, the article problematizes and situates the notion of care within the colonial and non-innocent histories in which it is embedded, in order to align ethics of care with a critical reorientation of digital colonial archives. Marshalling a postcolonial feminist critique of care as a framework for thinking, the article suggests, can help us to realign archival encounters in ways that that more pointedly confront the colonial legacies of our present.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2020-06-11},
journal = {Archival Science},
author = {Agostinho, Daniela},
month = jun,
year = {2019},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {141--165},
}
The year of 2017 marked the centennial of Denmark’s sale of the former Danish West Indies to the United States of America, today the US Virgin Islands (USVI). The colonial archives figured prominently during the year-long commemorations in Denmark, as the Danish National Archives digitized and publicly released the colonial records of the islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John. Drawing on cultural theories as well as debates in archival science, this article proposes the notion of ‘archival encounter’ to centre the ethical-epistemological challenges of digitization and to emphasize the intersected problematics raised by the encounter between the colonial, the archival and the digital. The article begins by revisiting the history of these archives in order to situate the digitization of these records within debates on provenance, custody and access. It then introduces some of the debates taking place within the field of Atlantic slavery, as well as feminist and critical race theories, to argue that the digitization of the USVI records recasts questions about the limitations and possibilities of colonial archives. Furthermore, the article contends that digitality and datafication are indebted to colonial histories of quantification that structure the technological encounter with the colonial archive. Finally, the article builds on these theorizations to amplify recent calls for a feminist ethics of care in archival praxis. Drawing on postcolonial critiques, the article problematizes and situates the notion of care within the colonial and non-innocent histories in which it is embedded, in order to align ethics of care with a critical reorientation of digital colonial archives. Marshalling a postcolonial feminist critique of care as a framework for thinking, the article suggests, can help us to realign archival encounters in ways that that more pointedly confront the colonial legacies of our present.
Aboriginal histories in Australia government archives: Working with records of trauma.
Thorpe, K.; and Willis, C.
. 2019.
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@article{thorpe_aboriginal_2019,
title = {Aboriginal histories in {Australia} government archives: {Working} with records of trauma},
url = {https://www.laacollective.org/work/aboriginal-histories-in-australia-government-archives/},
abstract = {Reflections on using records for healing and for truth-telling in Australia in Acid Free issue 10: Roots.},
language = {en-US},
urldate = {2020-06-23},
author = {Thorpe, Kirsten and Willis, Cassandra},
year = {2019},
keywords = {Read},
}
Reflections on using records for healing and for truth-telling in Australia in Acid Free issue 10: Roots.
2018
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Onlining queer acts: Digital research ethics and caring for risky archives.
Cowan, T.; and Rault, J.
Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 28(2): 121–142. May 2018.
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@article{cowan_onlining_2018,
title = {Onlining queer acts: {Digital} research ethics and caring for risky archives},
volume = {28},
issn = {0740-770X, 1748-5819},
shorttitle = {Onlining queer acts},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0740770X.2018.1473985},
doi = {10.1080/0740770X.2018.1473985},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2020-08-28},
journal = {Women \& Performance: a journal of feminist theory},
author = {Cowan, T.L. and Rault, Jasmine},
month = may,
year = {2018},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {121--142},
}
Archival turns and returns.
Ketelaar, E.
In Gilliland, A.; McKemmish, S.; and Lau, A., editor(s),
Research in the Archival Multiverse, pages 228–268. 2018.
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@incollection{ketelaar_archival_2018,
title = {Archival turns and returns},
isbn = {978-1-876924-67-6},
url = {https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31429},
abstract = {The past fifteen years have witnessed a growing multidisciplinary interest in different aspects of archives and archival phenomena. The most notable movement was the “archival turn” in various disciplines. Outside the traditional boundaries of archival science (archivistics) a new concept of “the archive” has been embraced by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, philosophers, cultural and literary theorists, and artists. This paper charts the paradigms of various “archiviologies” as caused by the “archival turn”, and suggests how these could yield “archival returns” or new perspectives enriching archival theory, methodology, and practice.},
booktitle = {Research in the {Archival} {Multiverse}},
author = {Ketelaar, Eric},
editor = {Gilliland, Anne and McKemmish, Sue and Lau, Andrew},
year = {2018},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {228--268},
}
The past fifteen years have witnessed a growing multidisciplinary interest in different aspects of archives and archival phenomena. The most notable movement was the “archival turn” in various disciplines. Outside the traditional boundaries of archival science (archivistics) a new concept of “the archive” has been embraced by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, philosophers, cultural and literary theorists, and artists. This paper charts the paradigms of various “archiviologies” as caused by the “archival turn”, and suggests how these could yield “archival returns” or new perspectives enriching archival theory, methodology, and practice.
Keepers of knowledge in a post-literate future.
Zastrow, J.
Computers in Libraries, 38(7): 15–18. September 2018.
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@article{zastrow_keepers_2018,
title = {Keepers of knowledge in a post-literate future},
volume = {38},
url = {https://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/sep18/Zastrow--Keepers-of-Knowledge-in-a-Post-Literate-Future.shtml},
number = {7},
journal = {Computers in Libraries},
author = {Zastrow, Jan},
month = sep,
year = {2018},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {15--18},
}
Archival assemblages: Applying disability studies’ political/relational model to archival description.
Brilmyer, G.
Archival Science, 18(2): 95–118. June 2018.
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@article{brilmyer_archival_2018,
title = {Archival assemblages: {Applying} disability studies’ political/relational model to archival description},
volume = {18},
issn = {1389-0166, 1573-7519},
shorttitle = {Archival assemblages},
url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10502-018-9287-6},
doi = {10.1007/s10502-018-9287-6},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2020-01-02},
journal = {Archival Science},
author = {Brilmyer, Gracen},
month = jun,
year = {2018},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {95--118},
}
More voice, less ventriloquism– exploring the relational dynamics in a participatory archive of mental health recovery.
Sexton, A.; and Sen, D.
International Journal of Heritage Studies, 24(8): 874–888. September 2018.
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@article{sexton_more_2018,
title = {More voice, less ventriloquism– exploring the relational dynamics in a participatory archive of mental health recovery},
volume = {24},
issn = {1352-7258, 1470-3610},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13527258.2017.1339109},
doi = {10.1080/13527258.2017.1339109},
language = {en},
number = {8},
urldate = {2020-08-28},
journal = {International Journal of Heritage Studies},
author = {Sexton, Anna and Sen, Dolly},
month = sep,
year = {2018},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {874--888},
}
2017
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Losing the archive.
Hutchens, J.
In Jorgensen, D.; and McLean, I., editor(s),
Indigenous archives: the making and unmaking of Aboriginal art, pages 297–320. UWA Publishing, Crawley, Western Australia, 2017.
OCLC: ocn971535011
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bibtex
@incollection{jorgensen_losing_2017,
address = {Crawley, Western Australia},
title = {Losing the archive},
isbn = {978-1-74258-922-0},
booktitle = {Indigenous archives: the making and unmaking of {Aboriginal} art},
publisher = {UWA Publishing},
author = {Hutchens, Jessica},
editor = {Jorgensen, Darren and McLean, Ian},
year = {2017},
note = {OCLC: ocn971535011},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {297--320},
}
Archival amnesty: In search of Black American transitional and restorative justice.
Sutherland, T.
Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(2). June 2017.
Paper
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link
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abstract
@article{sutherland_archival_2017,
title = {Archival amnesty: {In} search of {Black} {American} transitional and restorative justice},
volume = {1},
issn = {2572-1364},
shorttitle = {Archival amnesty},
url = {https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/42},
doi = {10.24242/jclis.v1i2.42},
abstract = {Archives as memory institutions have a collective mandate to document and preserve a national cultural heritage. Recently, American archives and archivists have come under fire for pervasive homogeneity - for privileging, preserving, and reproducing a history that is predominantly white and further silencing the voices and histories of marginalized peoples and communities. This paper argues that as such, archives participate in a continuing amnesty that prevents transitional and restorative justice for black Americans in the United States. Using the history of lynching in America as a backdrop, this article explores the records and counter-narratives archives need to embrace in order to support truth and reconciliation processes for black Americans in the age of \#ArchivesForBlackLives.},
number = {2},
urldate = {2020-08-28},
journal = {Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies},
author = {Sutherland, Tonia},
month = jun,
year = {2017},
keywords = {Read},
}
Archives as memory institutions have a collective mandate to document and preserve a national cultural heritage. Recently, American archives and archivists have come under fire for pervasive homogeneity - for privileging, preserving, and reproducing a history that is predominantly white and further silencing the voices and histories of marginalized peoples and communities. This paper argues that as such, archives participate in a continuing amnesty that prevents transitional and restorative justice for black Americans in the United States. Using the history of lynching in America as a backdrop, this article explores the records and counter-narratives archives need to embrace in order to support truth and reconciliation processes for black Americans in the age of #ArchivesForBlackLives.
2016
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From human rights to feminist ethics: Radical empathy in the archives.
Caswell, M.; and Cifor, M.
Archivaria, 81(Spring 2016): 23–43. May 2016.
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@article{caswell_human_2016,
title = {From human rights to feminist ethics: {Radical} empathy in the archives},
volume = {81},
copyright = {Copyright (c) 2016 Michelle Caswell, Marika Cifor},
issn = {1923-6409},
shorttitle = {From human rights to feminist ethics},
url = {https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13557},
language = {en},
number = {Spring 2016},
urldate = {2020-01-02},
journal = {Archivaria},
author = {Caswell, Michelle and Cifor, Marika},
month = may,
year = {2016},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {23--43},
}
Social metadata and public-contributed contents in memory institutions: “crowd voice” versus “authenticated heritage”?.
Liew, C. L.
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, 45(3): 122–133. October 2016.
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@article{liew_social_2016,
title = {Social metadata and public-contributed contents in memory institutions: “crowd voice” versus “authenticated heritage”?},
volume = {45},
issn = {2195-2965, 2195-2957},
shorttitle = {Social metadata and public-contributed contents in memory institutions},
url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/pdtc/45/3/article-p122.xml},
doi = {10.1515/pdtc-2016-0017},
abstract = {Abstract
Social technologies have led to increasing participatory activities and institutions are interested in the potential of using these for outreach and engagement. Through offering new spaces and tools that allow users to consume and also to contribute content, institutions are expanding their traditional services which could redefine their role and relevance in the digital cultural heritage landscape. This study investigates the decision-making and practices underpinning current handling of social metadata and public-contributed contents (PCC). The focus is on examining the motivations for soliciting contributions, if and how these are moderated and managed, if they are integrated into the institutional data and knowledge base, and the extent to which public stakeholders moderate. The study also involves an investigation of whether, and how, memory institutions consider diversity and inclusiveness in soliciting participation and contributions, and the values placed on PCC, as compared to institutional resources. The aim of this study is to shed light on these by surveying libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions.
How institutions deal with the social metadata and PCC they gather, and what they do with the contributions, could be a key determining factor of the success of their participatory practice as part of their larger effort to capture and preserve collective memories. This survey shows that the profession still has a way to go towards these goals. There is little evidence that demonstrates integration of a participatory culture and activities into the strategic directions and documentary practices of institutions.},
number = {3},
urldate = {2020-08-28},
journal = {Preservation, Digital Technology \& Culture},
author = {Liew, Chern Li},
month = oct,
year = {2016},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {122--133},
}
Abstract Social technologies have led to increasing participatory activities and institutions are interested in the potential of using these for outreach and engagement. Through offering new spaces and tools that allow users to consume and also to contribute content, institutions are expanding their traditional services which could redefine their role and relevance in the digital cultural heritage landscape. This study investigates the decision-making and practices underpinning current handling of social metadata and public-contributed contents (PCC). The focus is on examining the motivations for soliciting contributions, if and how these are moderated and managed, if they are integrated into the institutional data and knowledge base, and the extent to which public stakeholders moderate. The study also involves an investigation of whether, and how, memory institutions consider diversity and inclusiveness in soliciting participation and contributions, and the values placed on PCC, as compared to institutional resources. The aim of this study is to shed light on these by surveying libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions. How institutions deal with the social metadata and PCC they gather, and what they do with the contributions, could be a key determining factor of the success of their participatory practice as part of their larger effort to capture and preserve collective memories. This survey shows that the profession still has a way to go towards these goals. There is little evidence that demonstrates integration of a participatory culture and activities into the strategic directions and documentary practices of institutions.
2011
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Tales still to be told: Indigenous Australian theatre practice and the archive.
Casey, M.
In McGillivray, G., editor(s),
Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia: Hidden Archives of Performance, pages 29–44. Peter Lang Publishing, Bern Switzerland, 2011.
link
bibtex
@incollection{casey_tales_2011,
address = {Bern Switzerland},
title = {Tales still to be told: {Indigenous} {Australian} theatre practice and the archive},
isbn = {978-3-0343-0390-3},
booktitle = {Scrapbooks, {Snapshots} and {Memorabilia}: {Hidden} {Archives} of {Performance}},
publisher = {Peter Lang Publishing},
author = {Casey, Maryrose},
editor = {McGillivray, Glen},
year = {2011},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {29--44},
}
2001
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Chronicle of a backlash foretold: Guatemala’s National Police archives, lost and found and lost – and found? – again.
Weld, K.
In Boel, J.; Canavaggio, P.; and Quintana, A. G., editor(s),
Archives and Human Rights, pages 309–319. 2001.
Paper
link
bibtex
@incollection{weld_chronicle_2001,
title = {Chronicle of a backlash foretold: {Guatemala}’s {National} {Police} archives, lost and found and lost – and found? – again},
isbn = {978-0-429-05462-4},
url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429054624-30/chronicle-backlash-foretold-kirsten-weld},
booktitle = {Archives and {Human} {Rights}},
author = {Weld, Kirsten},
editor = {Boel, Jens and Canavaggio, Perrine and Quintana, Antonio González},
year = {2001},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {309--319},
}
1977
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Secrecy, archives and the public interest.
Zinn, H.
The Midwestern Archivist, 2(2): 14–26. 1977.
Publisher: Midwest Archives Conference
Paper
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bibtex
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@article{zinn_secrecy_1977,
title = {Secrecy, archives and the public interest},
volume = {2},
issn = {0363-888X},
url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/41101382},
number = {2},
urldate = {2020-08-28},
journal = {The Midwestern Archivist},
author = {Zinn, Howard},
year = {1977},
note = {Publisher: Midwest Archives Conference},
keywords = {Read},
pages = {14--26},
}
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