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{"title":"The Greek communities of Egypt and national identity building as reflected in the archival records of the Hellenic literary and historical archive/MIET, 1843–1950","authors":"Mathilde Pyrli","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09503-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09503-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The year 2023 marked the 180th anniversary of the establishment of the Greek Community of Alexandria. Conceived along national lines, it addressed persons of Greek nationality or origin and its main pillars were the Greek school and Hospital. A national centre away from the homeland, it quickly became a significant secular pole that embraced the Greek population of the city and served as a guiding and supporting agent for smaller Greek Communities throughout Egypt. The history of the Greek Community of Alexandria and of other Communities in Egypt, within the hundred-year timeslot (1843–1950), runs parallel and in relation to other (hi)stories: the transition of Egypt from Ottoman province to British protectorate, then to independent national state; the geopolitical transformations of Greece due to the Balkan Wars, the Asia Minor expedition, and the two World Wars. This paper will present the archival records at the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive pertaining to the Greek Communities, Societies, and Fraternities in Egypt and the challenges—of language and content—they pose to the researcher today. Focusing on the archive of the Greek Community of Alexandria, this paper will highlight a multi-faceted project at work: firstly, the efforts for the establishment of a Greek enclave and the shaping of its social, economic, and political identity. Secondly, following the retrenchment of the Hellenic element in Egypt post-1952, the transformation of the Archive (documents, photographs, press) into an enduring monument of the Greek presence in Egypt, a stage for the consolidation of a distinct Egyptiot Greek identity, and a repository for further historical re-readings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144893971","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":"Exploring non-archival trajectories of written artefacts: an introduction","authors":"Markus Friedrich,&nbsp;Konrad Hirschler,&nbsp;Cécile Michel","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09505-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09505-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09505-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144880700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Removed archives: the case of the royal palace of Mari (ca 1810–1760 BCE)","authors":"Philippe Abrahami","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09500-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09500-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article describes the sorting and seizure operations of part of the diplomatic archives, mostly letters coming from the royal palace of Mari, carried out by the Babylonians after their conquest of the city in 1761 BCE. It will also present the issue of legal contracts and letters whose presence in the palace of Mari cannot be explained unless one considers that they were confiscated or intercepted documents.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144881011","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":"Neither imperial nor national? The archival trails and legacies of (post)Ottoman-Armenians","authors":"Varak Ketsemanian,&nbsp;Bedross Der Matossian","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09506-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09506-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Unlike Greeks, Arabs and Bulgarians, whose trajectories from imperial subjecthood to national states have been studied in much detail, the post-Ottoman legacies of the Armenians defy the accepted categories of \"imperial\" and “national.” Having neither an independent state (excluding the brief interlude of the First Republic 1918–1920) until 1991 nor a fully accepted citizenship status in the Turkish Republic, the dispersion of the surviving Ottoman-Armenians and their archives reflects this liminality that characterized their experiences throughout the twentieth century as they crisscrossed various legal categories. Serving as a guide to some of the intellectual and methodological pitfalls that underlie the study of imperial subjects in an age where national citizenship is the dominant political unit worldwide, this article highlights some of the major archival repositories that house collections of Ottoman-Armenian documents but also discusses some of the challenges associated with using or relying on them. We argue that a sound approach to a shared late Ottoman history is to critically assess the existing Armenian materials by taking them out of the—epistemological—shadow of the Armenian Genocide. Acknowledging the many difficulties that linger and hamper a more efficient and analytically engaging usage of the enormous mass of the material that Ottoman Armenians left behind, we, nonetheless, believe that they are immensely valuable and vital for a more complex, sophisticated and analytically viable reconstruction of late Ottoman lives. It is only through a consistent engagement with the various ways in which scholars have been studying the late history of Ottoman-Armenians that we can begin to sketch answers to several fundamental questions, including “Do archives have an ‘ethnic’ identity in a (post)imperial context? If so, how ‘Armenian’ are the materials under study?,” “How does the physical dispersion of Ottoman-Armenian documents account for the historians’ archival choices and consequently for the shaping of the major contours of Armenian and Turkish historiographies throughout the twentieth century?.”</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144881010","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":"Jewish Egyptian archives and heritage sites between dispersal and entrenchment","authors":"Alon Tam","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09508-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09508-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The transition from an Ottoman imperial order to a post-Ottoman, nationalist, one, imposed a reality of both dispersal and entrenchment on the Jewish community in Egypt. This article analyzes the effects of this historical reality on the different kinds of archives that Jewish Egyptians have produced. It investigates the creation, description, and usage contexts of those archives with the greatest potential for research contribution about this community, highlighting the history and politics of their creation and usage, and their significance. Building on an expanded meaning of archives, it also explores the (re)creation, description, and usage contexts of Jewish heritage sites in Egypt and its diaspora, considering that some archives double as heritage sites, and some heritage sites are planned to offer archives, or can be studied as archives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144868653","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":"Beyond capstone: toward a new strategy for appraising and selecting emails to transfer to archives within French public agencies","authors":"Edgar Lejeune,&nbsp;Bénédicte Grailles,&nbsp;Touria Aït el Mekki,&nbsp;Patrice Marcilloux","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09511-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09511-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article introduces two new approaches to email archiving within French public agencies undertaken between 2020 and 2023 at the University of Angers (France). It shows how a qualitative survey of producers’ practices and an NLP-based tool might provide the basis for new strategies for the appraisal and selection of email boxes and messages to be transferred to archives. The initial impetus was to overcome difficulties faced by French administrative records managers and archivists in locally implementing the appraisal framework known as the “Capstone” approach, which recommends gathering emails as electronic records and preserving for the long term only specific mailboxes selected in light of the function or position of the email account owner. While Capstone was adopted at the national scale in the French administration, major archival issues remain. Does an approach that focuses on the mailboxes of individuals holding strategic job positions correspond to the reality of bureaucratic work in France? And how should one define accountable criteria for identifying and appraising emails or mailboxes to be preserved on the basis of their enduring value? To address this, we combined two sociological methods, interviews and observation, and developed an interface for classifying messages using NLP. The combination of these two yielded some crucial elements to help archivists shift from the level of a single mailbox to that of a network: a better understanding of the practices of email producers, new criteria for selecting relevant mailboxes, and a new tool for archivists to appraise email archives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09511-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144861573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Oyster Model: understanding community roles in sustaining digital cultural knowledge infrastructures","authors":"Katrina Fenlon,&nbsp;Jessica Grimmer,&nbsp;Alia Reza,&nbsp;Travis Wagner","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09510-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09510-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Digital community archives and many digital humanities projects serve as critical infrastructure for community-based cultural knowledge, but they struggle with sustainability. Prior work has illuminated numerous sustainability factors for digital cultural knowledge infrastructures that are developed and maintained by communities, but there is relatively little empirical work on the roles of communities themselves. Based on a comparative multi-case study of four projects, we offer a conceptual framework—the Oyster Model—for understanding community engagement as a sustainability factor in community-based, digital cultural knowledge infrastructures. Sustainable infrastructures identify and engage a range of stakeholder groups—teams, partners, contributors, users, and allies—in different roles and adapt to dynamism and change among these groups. This model characterizes reciprocity as a facet of community-centered approaches to sustainability, to refine understanding of the mutually beneficial relationship between digital knowledge infrastructures and the groups that create and maintain them. This work aims to bridge a gap between the community archives literature and relevant work on the sustainability of digital humanities scholarship.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09510-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144861574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fires and floods: records, archives management and destruction in Zimbabwe since the colonial period","authors":"George Bishi","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09502-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09502-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article investigates the systemic vulnerabilities of Zimbabwe’s records and archives management systems through a historical analysis of archival destruction spanning the colonial era to the present. For a context, this article refers to the destruction of public archives by the British South Africa Company (BSAC) in 1922, the loss of BSAC records during the Nazi bombings in London in 1941, and the damage to archives in Kwekwe (2021) and Harare (2024). Using records management theories, including life cycle and continuum models, the article employs a qualitative methodology that analyses both primary and secondary sources. In doing so, it reveals how the absence of effective policies, inadequate infrastructure, and insufficient collaboration between records-creating agencies and archival institutions has profoundly contributed to the loss of archives and records, not only in Zimbabwe but across Africa, since the colonial period.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09502-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145160711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Persona creation methods as a step toward user-oriented archival curriculum: a case study of a Polish archival course","authors":"Monika Cołbecka,&nbsp;Anna Pieczka-Węgorkiewicz","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09504-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09504-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the broad context of social justice, diversity, community engagement, and inclusivity, the ability to effectively communicate with many types of users seems to be crucial to all information professionals, and archivists are no exception. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary for contemporary archival education institutions to shift their educational paradigm from system-oriented to user-oriented and to place strong emphasis on developing students’ soft skills. The main aim of our study is to investigate the possibility of applying persona creation methods to an archival curriculum. We adopt the case study approach to deliver a qualitative descriptive analysis of our experiences in using persona creation methods as a part of the archival curriculum at the University of the National Education Commission in Kraków. Besides persona creation methods, we applied a survey and a participatory observation method to collect data on students’ and faculty’s reflections on the course. As a result, we present the projects of some of the students—persona models along with experience maps—and we analyse the main challenges and benefits of using persona creation methods in archival education, including whether it is a valuable teaching technique for enhancing students’ sensitivity to the issues of archive users.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-025-09504-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward effective digital records management in Oman: key enablers, barriers and policy implications from government institution experiences","authors":"Hamad Humoud Hamad Al-Hinai,&nbsp;Ahmed Maher Khafaga Shehata,&nbsp;Abderrazak Mkadmi","doi":"10.1007/s10502-025-09501-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-025-09501-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the implementation of digital records management requirements in three Omani government institutions—the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and the National Records &amp; Archives Authority. Through qualitative analysis of interviews and documents, the research assessed the current state of adoption of digital records management, identified essential requirements like policies, human resources, technical infrastructure, and financial resources, and explored the challenges and best practices experienced by the organizations. The findings revealed that while the institutions are at different stages of implementing digital records management, common challenges include a lack of comprehensive policies and standards, a shortage of skilled staff, inadequate technological infrastructure, and limited funding. Key success factors highlighted were strong leadership support, staff training, agency collaboration, and adherence to international best practices. The study offers practical recommendations to improve digital records management capabilities in Omani government entities and support the national digital records management project. It contributes empirical insights to the limited research on digital records management implementation in the Arab region.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171079","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}