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{"title":"Archiving silence: a diagnostic framework for gendered epistemic exclusion in environmental recordkeeping","authors":"Swonam Kieran Roul","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09559-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09559-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The more visible women become in environmental records, the more thoroughly their epistemic authority can be foreclosed. This paradox, in which archival inclusion operates as a medium of epistemic exclusion, structures the relationship between gender and environmental recordkeeping across institutional contexts. Disaster databases, climate adaptation records, and environmental impact assessments increasingly claim to incorporate gender, yet women routinely appear in these documentary systems as data points and beneficiaries rather than as knowledge-producing subjects whose frameworks might reshape the archival categories through which environmental harm is documented. This article brings feminist epistemology and postcolonial ecocriticism into dialogue with archival theory to develop a diagnostic framework, the spectrum of silencing, identifying three mechanisms through which environmental recordkeeping produces gendered epistemic exclusion: metric backgrounding (appraisal operations that convert embodied subjects into interchangeable data points, foreclosing questions of differential accountability), testimonial capture (descriptive frameworks that absorb embodied testimony into dominant registers, producing testimonial smothering), and infrastructural erasure (the slow erosion of material conditions for knowledge transmission, rendering place-based knowledge unarchivable). The framework is tested through a comparative close reading of four poems spanning three continents, treated as diagnostic sites where the representational operations underlying archival practice become visible with concentrated formal clarity. The article contributes to critical archival studies by specifying how environmental records systems actively produce gendered epistemic hierarchies rather than passively reflecting them, and proposes counter-strategies calibrated to each mechanism, including revised appraisal criteria, community-controlled documentation, and participatory recordkeeping.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148719133","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":"Two-Spirit is bugs: classification, archival translation, and the limits of description","authors":"Andrew Wiebe","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09558-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09558-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper uses the meme “Shrimps is Bugs” as a provocation for thinking about classification, translation, and governance in archival systems. While the statement is taxonomically incorrect, it persists because it remains socially legible, revealing a tension between formal classification and relational ways of understanding similarity and meaning. I extend this tension to archival description, accessioning, and metadata practices, arguing that archival systems do not simply record identity but stabilize, flatten, and govern it through classificatory infrastructures. Focusing on gender and sexual identities, with an emphasis on the Turtle Island (North American) term Two-Spirit, this produces what I call archival translation: a condition in which relational, place-based, and evolving forms of identity exceed the descriptive frameworks designed to contain them. Drawing on archival theory, Indigenous statistics, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and scholarship on refusal, I examine how standards and data models privilege legibility, comparability, and interoperability over relational accountability. I argue that even when archival systems adopt more flexible or “relational” descriptive models, they often preserve the underlying requirement that knowledge be rendered as structured, exchangeable data. In contrast, Indigenous frameworks such as CARE, OCAP^®, and Jennifer Wemigwans’s <i>A Digital Bundle</i> demonstrate that governance is not external to information systems but constitutive of them. The paper concludes by arguing that archival change cannot depend solely on individual ethical practice. If archivists are to take relationality seriously, then respect, reciprocity, and responsibility must be embedded into archival infrastructure itself. The problem is not only descriptive language, but the systems, standards, and governance models that make some identities legible while rendering others translation. In doing so, the paper introduces the concept of archival translation as a way of theorizing the structural limits of archival systems when engaging relational forms of identity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148751324","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":"Toward a Christian Hymnology Metadata Schema: the description of the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom (407 A.C.)","authors":"Spyros Tzanavaris,&nbsp;Efthalia Xanthopoulou,&nbsp;Dimitrios G. Metallinos,&nbsp;Marios Poulos","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09535-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09535-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The term Christian Hymnology refers to all the texts concern the Holy Sacraments and Services, in respect to the doctrine and approaches within the doctrine. All hymnologies can be studied over the 365 days of the annual cycle of Christian hymns. Generally speaking, the main corpus of the annual hymnology in the Eastern Orthodox Church is divided daily into Vespers, Orthros, and the Divine Liturgy. This study aims to provide a metadata schema for the description of the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, the main liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom appears to have some elements in common with the Order of Mass of the Latin Rite. Due to this, the schema is of general value and—adapted or modified—could be considered to be adopted as a new standard. Metadata schemas for Vespers and Orthros (Matins) of the Eastern Orthodox Church are also provided.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148751325","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":"Should sensitive archival images be shown? The case for applying AI to colonial archives","authors":"Lise Jaillant,&nbsp;Matthew Kidd,&nbsp;Lingjia Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Should sensitive archival images be shown—and if so, how? This article examines the ethical, legal, and technical stakes of providing access to colonial-era photographs at scale for researchers, archivists, curators, and wider online publics, including members of source communities, arguing for qualified access supported by human-in-the-loop AI. Drawing on fifteen semi-structured interviews with professionals across GLAM institutions in the UK and continental Europe, we map current practice around sensitivity review, metadata enrichment, and collaboration with source communities. We complement these insights with a small pilot that applies a commercially available computer-vision tool (Google Cloud Vision SafeSearch) to twenty colonial photographs from the Archives Nationales d’Outre mer (France). This pilot shows that SafeSearch under-detects violence, particularly in monochrome, staged, or context-dependent scenes (a classic domain-shift problem). It performs comparatively better at flagging nudity within this small sample – an area that engages clear legal and safeguarding obligations for institutions within UK and EU frameworks (particularly where minors may be depicted). We outline a pragmatic pipeline for archival settings—combining SafeSearch-style triage, OCR/HTR of mounts and captions, authority-linked entities, semantic (vector) search, and constrained multimodal captioning—while acknowledging that these findings are based on a limited pilot, and emphasising that models inherit training biases, struggle with historical formats, and must never replace curatorial judgement. Interviewees converge on governance needs: clear takedown and escalation procedures; explicit labelling of AI-generated metadata; least-privilege technical setups; and early, sustained engagement with source communities. We propose a decision framework that aligns institutional risk (legal compliance, safeguarding, staff wellbeing) with public-interest goals (research access for scholars, students, and other users of digital collections; accountability to affected and source communities; and broader public engagement with histories of empire and violence), and that positions co-governance with source communities as a core condition of responsible access. The result is a practicable route for institutions working in similar legal and professional contexts to make difficult images more discoverable while minimising harm: AI can assist with scale; archivists and communities retain authority over what is surfaced, how it is described, and when warnings or access restrictions are required. By aligning institutional risk with public-interest goals, the framework also reflects institutional responsibilities and pressures, including legal compliance, reputational risk, and staff wellbeing, and therefore addresses not only user access but also the practical and ethical constraints under which GLAM professionals operate.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148614230","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":"Archival buildings as archives: recording through design","authors":"Zheqiong Mo,&nbsp;Tie Ji","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09557-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09557-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While archival buildings are often treated implicitly as neutral containers of records, this article argues that they are themselves archives—tangible, readable records of historical, political, and cultural information. Through horizontal comparison of typical archival buildings across geography, time, hierarchy, and theme, combined with vertical material culture analysis of Huangshicheng (China’s Imperial Archives, 1534-present), this study demonstrates that archival buildings record information through their complete material systems: architectural body, interior spaces, archival facilities, and environmental atmosphere. The article introduces the concept of “design writing” to theorize how design functions as a recording mechanism in archival buildings. Parallel to traditional archival writing (inscription on paper, bamboo, or parchment), design writing encodes information through material selection, spatial organization, color application, and decorative patterns. However, design writing exhibits distinctive characteristics: multi-sensory perception, embedded power distribution, and dynamic accumulation across time. Crucially, it records both intentional and unintentional information, providing multi-dimensional historical evidence that can corroborate or complicate traditional archival records. By expanding the definition of the term archive and revealing design’s mediating role in historical recording, this research contributes new theoretical perspectives to archival studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148613898","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":"Record-surface visibility and evidential accessibility in administrative disclosure","authors":"Youngsoon Yang","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09555-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09555-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Modern transparency regimes rest on a foundational assumption: that increased disclosure equates to increased accountability (Meijer 2013; Roberts 2006). This article examines a related but distinct question: whether disclosed records are interpretable, not merely accessible. When records are stabilised for public disclosure—converted from dynamic, relational systems into static outputs—the connections through which they acquire meaning are not always readily observable at the documentary surface. This condition is conceptualised as Representational Contraction. The analysis draws on two independently generated administrative disclosure outputs released in response to statutory privacy information requests made under New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020. To examine this condition, the study employs a reflexive control methodology incorporating records authored by the researcher. Even with extensive prior familiarity, some documentary connections were not readily apparent within the disclosed form. In response, the article proposes the Record-Surface Visibility (RSV) analytical framework, comprising five interdependent dimensions: Identifier Continuity, Metadata Embedding, Procedural Relationality, Attachment Linkage Visibility, and Format Interoperability. RSV is intended for application to disclosed outputs and provides external observers—including researchers, requesters, and oversight bodies—with a structured vocabulary for assessing whether documentary relationships remain observable once records have left their originating systems. RSV shifts attention from record production to record legibility: the extent to which the relationships through which records acquire evidential meaning remain observable to external observers encountering disclosed outputs. Across the disclosed outputs examined, recurring patterns included identifier instability, attachment disconnection, and discontinuities in temporal coherence. Informational content may persist, while procedural sequences, contextual connections, and documentary relationships become less readily apparent. The presence of information does not ensure interpretability. Formal completeness does not guarantee evidential accessibility. Transparency is not determined solely by the existence of records, but also by the visibility of their relationships.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148466448","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":"“You’re a little bit self-editing”: identity curation in Chinese American family archiving practices","authors":"Jiarui Sun","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09556-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09556-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines how everyday family archiving practices shape family identity among Chinese American families. While archival scholarship has paid sustained attention to the relationship between archives and identity in institutional and community contexts, family archives remain comparatively undertheorized and are often subsumed within the broader category of personal archives. Drawing on qualitative interviews, object elicitation, and home-based observation, this study argues that family archives do not simply preserve a pre-existing sense of family identity. They actively participate in shaping how families understand themselves over time and across migration. To theorize this process, the article develops the concept of identity curation, defined as the ongoing, relational, morally inflected, and everyday archival work through which families selectively preserve, withhold, and display materials in ways that shape what may stand for the family, what is excluded from representing it, and how particular identities are made visible and sustained over time. The findings identify three interrelated dynamics that constitute this process: identity construction through inclusion, identity boundary-making through exclusion, and identity performance through display. By theorizing family archives as a distinct archival formation, this article extends archival discussions of identity beyond institutional and community settings and highlights the significance of intimate, relational, and everyday archival practices in the making of family self-understanding.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148465706","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":"Modular archive construction for conservation documentation: an archival information framework for palm-leaf manuscript conservation","authors":"Yan Li,&nbsp;Jingyu Zhang,&nbsp;Hanwei Yu,&nbsp;Shuang Yu,&nbsp;Peng Liu,&nbsp;Yanyan Huang","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09551-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09551-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As cultural heritage conservation increasingly relies on multi-source analytical data, procedural records, and information intended for long-term preservation, conservation documentation has become an archival object with evidential, administrative, and research value. Existing documentation approaches, however, still rely mainly on structured frameworks or condition survey instruments, which are limited in their ability to organise complex conservation information generated across multiple stages and to preserve evidential relationships across records. Drawing on existing discussions of modularity, information architecture, and archival information organisation, this study reconceptualises conservation documentation as a problem of archival information organisation. It develops a modular method through workflow analysis, record structure analysis, and metadata mapping, and proposes an archival framework consisting of ten interrelated modules. The framework is tested through a case study of palm-leaf manuscript conservation. The results indicate that the framework can integrate heterogeneous conservation information, strengthen semantic connections and procedural continuity across records, and improve the evidential integrity and long-term reusability of conservation records. The study offers a transferable framework for the archival organisation of conservation documentation and supports the development of structured and sustainable conservation documentation systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148380556","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":"Archivists’ use of AI: practices and impacts","authors":"Jinfang Niu","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09553-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09553-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper reports findings from interviews with 15 practicing archivists mostly from the United States to examine how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming archival work practices and affecting the archival workforce. The findings show that archivists employ AI in diverse ways, spanning varying levels of maturity and technical demand. Rather than replacing archivists’ jobs, AI adoption has primarily transformed the organization of work by automating selected routine tasks, enabling new forms of archival activity, augmenting professional capabilities, and improving efficiency once systems reach full production use. These changes have contributed to backlog reduction, capacity expansion, and the reallocation of staff time, as well as generating demand for new technical expertise. Interviewees reported no job losses attributable to AI to date and generally anticipated stable staffing levels in the foreseeable future, for a variety of reasons. Overall, these findings suggest that AI is more likely to reconfigure archival labor than to displace it in the near term.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-026-09553-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148380555","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":"Looking at the back of a document: a case of repurposing swastikas into creating Polish statehood in bureaucratic practices in the formerly German lands (1945–1948)","authors":"Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska,&nbsp;Izabela Mrzygłód","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09554-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09554-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Traditionally, the reverse sides of archival documents have attracted little attention from either archivists or historians, except in cases of palimpsests. What remains understudied is that they are material surfaces that might influence the circulation of documents. To challenge this conventional understanding, we propose a close analysis of the repurposing of documents bearing swastikas within the bureaucratic practices of post-1945 Poland. The redrawing of Poland’s borders after 1945 and the incorporation of formerly German territories confronted Polish officials with an overwhelming presence of German material culture, including a substantial number of Nazi documents marked with the swastika. As a symbol of the brutal German occupation of 1939–45 and of the detested Nazi ideology, the swastika carried considerable emotional weight. Despite this, Polish officials reused these documents, writing on their reverse sides and thereby reintroducing them into circulation. We argue that this practice is possible to be interpreted not merely as a pragmatic response to post-war paper shortages but a deliberate act: a form of symbolic retribution against German symbols and, by extension, against the Germans and their state. Drawing on Alison Wiggins’ approach to the materiality of documents, we interpret the turning over of the swastika as a performative act of resistance. Thus, this analysis uncovers the post-war emotions and meanings embedded within these documents. By foregrounding the performative dimensions of documentary practice, along with its temporality and material entanglements in processes of information exchange, our theoretical framework offers a potential of a novel lens for examining the role of documents in post-conflict bureaucratic and archival contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-026-09554-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148380554","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}