{"title":"Should the Australian Society of Archivists have a diversity policy?","authors":"K. Dean","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2018.1490982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1490982","url":null,"abstract":"Alongside the production of this issue of the journal, I have been preparing a chapter for an edited volume about the impact of World War I on the universities and professions in Australia. Absent ...","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2018.1490982","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47989150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving image and sound collections for archivists","authors":"Anthea Skinner","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2018.1464371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1464371","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2018.1464371","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42913643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affect in the archive: trauma, grief, delight and texts. Some personal reflections","authors":"Lynette Russell","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2018.1458324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1458324","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Historians, as users of archives, often discuss the thrill and emotion of their ‘discoveries’. We can form romantic attachments or be repulsed across the decades. Archives containing the physical remains of the past can transport us, we can move beyond the here and now. Before the Museum of Melbourne digitised Alfred Howitt’s correspondence, I once opened a letter written to him on classic nineteenth-century blued paper. As I pulled the missive from its envelope, I could smell tobacco smoke. I was immediately in the room with him. Recently, after completing an article on the topic of frontier violence, my co-author and I both described a feeling of stress and trauma that came from reading colonial records of ‘skirmishes’ and ‘dispersals’. In this paper, I want to reflect on the experience of Affect in the archive.","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2018.1458324","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43258278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Silence of the Archive","authors":"R. Tropea","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2018.1464246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1464246","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2018.1464246","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41515886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back-ups for the future: archival practices for data activism","authors":"Morgan E. Currie, Britt S. Paris","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2018.1468273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1468273","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Literature on activist archiving theorises the power of recordkeeping to give voice to marginalised communities. However, missing from this archival literature are analyses about the political practice of preserving data as an act of grassroots resistance. Simultaneously, existing scholarly literature on grassroots data activism analyses the creation of new statistical representations to challenge official ones. This literature has largely ignored what will happen to this data over the long term, nor has it treated data archiving as an activist project in its own right. This theoretical article seeks to close the gap between literature on archival activism and literature on data activism, in hopes that both sets of research can draw productively from each other. There are clear affinities between activist archives and data activism: both address the failure by mainstream institutions to account for marginal voices, both have the power to make issues visible and legitimate within the public sphere, and both experiment with traditional forms of memory and statistical evidence. The authors believe that these two powerful forms of activity have much to learn from each other, particularly as the need to steward data over the long term will only grow.","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2018.1468273","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48229476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building trust in information: perspectives on the frontiers of provenance","authors":"Jacqueline J. Bettington","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2018.1464217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1464217","url":null,"abstract":"Building Trust in Information is a collection of multidisciplinary papers originally presented at an international workshop held in 2015 to explore the conceptualisation and application of provenance in digital ecosystems. While the book is ‘foundational’ in its treatment of provenance, it is not a text on provenance fundamentals. Nor does it seek to be a definitive representation of disciplinary views on provenance. The book’s aims are to (1) unpack and explore different professional conceptualisations of provenance; (2) synthesise those ideas; and (3) enrich our understanding of provenance to advance new research in this area. The first two aims are broadly achieved in the first chapter authored by Victoria L Lemieux, and the imProvenance Group. Nine of the fifteen workshop participants present their disciplinary perspectives on ‘provenance’ in the rest of the book and, in varying degrees, contribute to the first and third aims. Published in digital and hardcopy versions, the book is divided into five parts: (1) Synthesis; (2) Archival Perspectives; (3) Library and Information Science Perspectives; (4) Computer Science Perspectives; and (5) Cognitive Science Perspectives Through the Lens of Visual Analytics. Bibliographies and/or references are included in each chapter. The book is not indexed. Part I is a lengthy and informative discussion of the key points raised in the rest of the book. It provides an extensive and diverse set of examples (use cases) where the application of provenance is challenged by technology, process and stakeholder expectations. It recognises that while different disciplinary views on provenance co-exist and can be challenging, they can also offer opportunities for all professions to better understand, manage and use provenance-related data. Very little guidance is given on how this can be achieved through research and practice. Part II explores the history and application of provenance in archival science. In the first chapter Adrian Cunningham discusses the development of the Australian Series System in response to the challenge of multiple provenances and how the system has evolved and influenced archival theory, standards and practice in the digital environment. Giovanni Michetti examines the definition and conceptualisation of provenance and discusses provenance in the context of current research, how it influences different archival functions and identifies technology-enabled opportunities for enriching archival approaches to provenance. The archival perspective closes with Kenneth Thibodeau’s argument that conceptual ‘narrowness and vagueness’ (p. 70) have generated disagreement and confusion about the archival application of provenance and original order. He suggests that by modifying concepts, methods and tools from other disciplines, archivists can enhance the management and preservation of records in the digital environment. Part III covers the library and information science perspectives of provenance. Luci","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2018.1464217","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46538956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GLAMx Lab Living Histories Digitisation Lab – engaging tertiary students with university archival collections","authors":"Gionni Di Gravio, A. Hardy","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2018.1467272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1467272","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2018.1467272","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47662267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adding value to libraries, archives, and museums: harnessing the force that drives your organization’s future","authors":"Nik McGrath","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2018.1464242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1464242","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2018.1464242","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48263194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passion for archive","authors":"V. Harris","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2018.1446344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1446344","url":null,"abstract":"Good morning everyone. It’s a pleasure to be with you and an honour to be invited to give a keynote at an ASA conference again. The last time was early in September of 2001, when I was just a kid w...","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2018.1446344","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48555930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Activist archives: youth culture and the political past in Indonesia","authors":"Viviane Frings‐Hessami","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2018.1464370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1464370","url":null,"abstract":"Almost two decades after the fall of the Suharto regime in May 1998, we still know very little about the student movement that was the driving force behind Indonesia’s turn to democracy. In the post-Suharto era, the student movement lost the limelight to other actors better equipped for the game of politics, and thus moved ever deeper into the realm of collective memory as a feverish episode in history, aligned with the longer history of pemuda (youth) activism in Indonesia. Yet, as Doreen Lee persuasively argues in Activist Archives, it is from the edges of history that “pemuda fever” continues to “infuse the present with urgency and legitimacy” (p. 3), animating a “youthful culture of democracy” that firmly established radical styles and ideas within the political and cultural landscape of Jakarta. Remedying the dearth of literature on post-New Order student activism, Activist Archives offers a sophisticated ethnography of “Generation 98”, ingeniously structured around key tropes of the “material and ideational spaces” that student activists inhabit. With a keen eye for detail and paradox, Lee delves deep into the micropolitics of these spaces, starting with the “Archive”. She shows how activists’ feverish “drive to document, consign, and assemble signs of pemuda nationalism” (p. 11) served as an “authenticating practice” to compete with state discourse, which was, however, complicated by the concurrent need for secrecy, epitomized by the tacit rule: “Burn after reading”. By highlighting the social life behind the documentation, Lee uncovers significant findings that many other researchers might have overlooked. A charming example is a scene reconstructed from scribbles found on the back of official statements used during the 1997 subversion trials; it shows how two activists, waiting for their turn to testify, exchanged insolent jokes, conveying “the undercurrent of youthful nonchalance and puerile lightheartedness even during the gravity of the subversion trial” (p. 55). Youthfulness also pervades the chapters on “Street” and “Style”, which show how the performativity of protest and the carefully cultivated pemuda look helped to make subversive symbols of the left trendy and less threatening, thus creating “a new model of citizenship for Indonesian youth by making political participation desirable and accessible” (p. 91). In an engaging section on the production and circulation of protest T-shirts, Lee further illustrates","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2018.1464370","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48803803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}