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{"title":"Mediated recordkeeping and epistemic accountability in social media archiving","authors":"Leisa Gibbons","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09550-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09550-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social media archiving has become an established institutional practice, yet uncertainty remains about what social media archives can be used as evidence of and how platform-mediated conditions shape evidential meaning. This paper addresses that problem by introducing the Mediated Recordkeeping Model (MRKm) as a conceptual and analytical framework for examining epistemic accountability in social media archiving. Building on records continuum theory, the MRKm explicitly models mediation, power and the distributed production of meaning across platforms, institutions and communities, responding to a theoretical gap in archival scholarship on how evidentiality is produced and constrained under platform conditions. The paper places the framework within contemporary contexts of platform capitalism, technical volatility, and ethical and legal constraints, and it argues that archival practice does not adequately specify how socio-technical infrastructures and institutional decisions actively shape what is known through archived social media. The analytical value of the MRKm is demonstrated through a deliberately partial, documentation-based application to the State Library of New South Wales Social Media Archive, which shows how evidential ambiguity and absence are produced through capture, organisation, curation and access design. The paper further introduces platform paradata as a practical mechanism for operationalising epistemic accountability by documenting these mediations. Rather than proposing a prescriptive solution or institutional evaluation, the paper positions epistemic accountability as a core archival responsibility and advances the MRKm as a diagnostic framework for explaining the conditions, constraints and trade-offs through which platform-mediated archives shape evidential meaning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-026-09550-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148281392","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":"“In the end, people are people”: positionality statements in the archival enterprise","authors":"Alex H. Poole,&nbsp;Ashley Todd-Diaz","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09542-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09542-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although positionality statements have gained considerable visibility in archival studies scholarship and professional discourse, little empirical evidence exists concerning the ways in which archival professionals themselves use positionality statements. Drawing on an international survey of 62 archivists, this exploratory case study examines archivists’ attitudes toward positionality, their experiences creating positionality statements, their perceptions of positionality statements’ usefulness and drawbacks, and their views on such statements’ application, namely in archival description, reparative description, and peer review. Findings show that most respondents value reflection on positionality and perceive payoffs for personal ethics, professional practice, and scholarly communication. Conversely, participants expressed ambivalence toward positionality statements as a practice. While many respondents identified potential advantages such as showing the researcher’s location, countering bias, enhancing understanding, illuminating the ostensible insider/outsider relationship, encouraging reflexivity, increasing transparency, augmenting trustworthiness, and promoting critical thinking, most also put forth concerns. These included inauthenticity, violating privacy, infusing bias, ineffectiveness, extra labor, irrelevancy, reductiveness, chilling effects on scholarly communication, intellectually suspect, not universally accepted, and a lack of best practices. Many stressed the potentially adverse ramifications of these on members of marginalized communities. Complementary quantitative analysis suggested that caring about positionality strongly correlated with perceiving positionality statements as useful, even though belief in their drawbacks persisted, irrespective of stance. Most participants opposed using positionality statements in colophons and annotations; they remained divided on PS’ role in reparative description. In peer review, finally, respondents mostly opposed requiring PS. This research complicates prevailing claims about positionality statements by foregrounding archivists’ lived experiences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-026-09542-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148281547","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":"“It definitely got my mind whirling:” Building community partnerships for teaching with primary sources","authors":"Alexandra Chassanoff,&nbsp;Elliott Kuecker,&nbsp;Lyric Grimes,&nbsp;Gabi Benedit","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09547-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09547-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite the growth in digitization and broad access to online instructional resources, relatively few empirical studies in North America have examined how elementary, middle, and secondary teachers are using primary source materials in their classrooms. This article reports on the Diving into Archives! (DIA) project, a research initiative housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The goal of the project is to build partnerships between archivists and teachers, aiming to support the use of primary sources in classroom settings and to encourage new kinds of historical thinking. This article situates the DIA initiative as an exemplary case for encouraging cross-domain collaboration, by sharing practical strategies for outreach and access efforts, designs for instructional support, and guidance for expanding meaningful collaborations between teachers and archivists.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148281391","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":"Repressive regimes and the manipulations of archival records: an investigation into selected countries in Africa","authors":"Kofi Koranteng Adu","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09549-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09549-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Throughout history and across political contexts, archival systems have been vulnerable to manipulation, censorship, destruction, and ideological distortion especially under repressive regimes. This study examines how authoritarian/repressive governments weaponize archival power to legitimize dominant narratives, erase dissenting voices, and manufacture selective histories. Using a qualitative documentary analysis approach, the study systematically reviews published scholarship, government documents, historical records, and case studies from Africa, The findings revealed five interrelated strategies of archival oppression: destruction of evidence, censorship and restricted access, fabrication of misleading records, surveillance-based documentation, and selective preservation aligned with dominant ideologies. These practices compromise archival authenticity, undermine transparency, and erode public trust in official memory systems. The paper concludes that archival manipulation is not merely a technical violation but a profound ethical and political act that reshapes what societies know, remember, or forget. Safeguarding archival integrity requires institutional accountability, digital preservation frameworks, inclusive documentation practices, and robust governance mechanisms, especially in politically fragile contexts. The study underscores the urgent need to strengthen archival resilience in the face of ongoing threats posed by state power, digital vulnerabilities, and emerging information risks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148281390","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 custodianship: public archives, democratic agency, and the limits of transformative discourse","authors":"Geerd De Ceulaerde","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09548-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09548-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Public archival institutions occupy an ambivalent position in democratic societies. Institutionally, they are configured—through international frameworks and professional self-representation—primarily as evidentiary infrastructure: reliable custodians of records that enable accountability, contestation, and redress. At the same time, archival scholarship and a range of practical initiatives increasingly position these institutions as active agents in processes of democratisation, capable of shaping the conditions under which diverse voices, histories, and social perspectives can circulate in the public sphere. This article argues that the persistent gap between these two framings is structurally produced, at least in part, by the policy ecosystem in which archival institutions are embedded. Through a comparison of supranational archival frameworks with heritage and museum policy frameworks, it demonstrates that archival institutions are internationally configured primarily as custodians of records rather than as relational actors with an explicit transformative mandate—which helps explain why transformative practices tend to emerge fragmentarily and remain institutionally precarious. The article then analyses how archival institutions nonetheless exercise democratic agency through three interlocking registers of sub-political power: infrastructural, distributive, and persistent. Guided by two core democratic functions—as infrastructures for evidence and as pillar of pluralism through the distribution of archival capital—it examines how institutional choices can both restrict and expand public impact in concrete public-sector contexts. It concludes that archival professionals need a sharper understanding of the sub-political effects of their everyday routines; that transformative scholarship must engage more seriously with the constrained nature of public archival work; and that making public archives productive as democratic actors requires explicit recognition in supranational and national frameworks—not only as evidentiary infrastructures, but as distributors of archival capital co-responsible for pluralism in the public sphere.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237059","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":"Locating disability in digital archives: an analysis of accessibility and inclusion in UK-based special collections","authors":"Kaitlynn Buchbaum,&nbsp;Paul Gooding","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09545-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09545-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article builds on critical theories of access and accessibility to explore the extent to which archival websites provide for the specific functional requirements of disabled visitors, and the methods that archival practitioners can adopt to further disabled inclusion in archival spaces. We take a mixed methods approach with an emancipatory ethos, combining accessibility testing of archival websites for the technical attributes that contribute to accessibility for those identifying as visually, sensorily, cognitively and physically disabled, and interviews with archival practitioners on their approaches to include and source support for inclusion in their respective institutions. Together, these methods construct an understanding of the current state of disabled inclusion in digital archival collections in the United Kingdom. The article demonstrates that while access is one of the main principles of archival theory, the nature of that access is often considered in its broadest sense, without considering the individual requirements of those engaging with archives. Defaulting to non-disabled visitors further marginalizes the disabled users with specific access requirements, thus rendering them invisible in the development of physical and virtual reading rooms. We encourage a mindset shift towards foregrounding the needs of disabled users, offering a framework around which other practitioners may shape their initiatives to work towards a more holistic, imperfect accessibility policy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148173588","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":"Archival Science editorial team changes","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09546-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09546-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147968446","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":"Archival time simultaneity (ATS): a post-linear temporal framework for record ontology in the digital era","authors":"Abderrahmane Kalem","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09543-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09543-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although the Records Life Cycle model has faced extensive criticism in theory, many archival settings still assume a linear timeline in practice, treating records as items that move step by step from current administrative use to long-term preservation In digital settings where machines act in very short time frames and record care is shared across many parties, a linear view does not reflect what a record is in practice. The article introduces Archival Time Simultaneity (ATS) as a framework for thinking about the archival record not as a biological entity that decays over time, but as a hyper-temporal node within a Block Universe. Using ideas from the physics of time and the graph-based ontology in Records in Contexts (RiC), ATS argues that evidential, administrative, and memory values should not be treated as stages that follow one another. Instead, they exist at the same time as different dimensions that come into play depending on context through metadata. On this view, each time a record’s value is activated in a given setting, the record is interpreted in a new way, and its meaning is reshaped (Ketelaar, Arch Sci 1:131–141, 2001). By treating the record as something that exists in multiple states at the same time, rather than as something that develops along a single line, ATS can serve as a theoretical basis for postcustodial stewardship. This view allows records to be activated in context where they are held, without requiring physical transfer or a final point of closure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147938459","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":"Music as cultural representation of the archival profession: a reflexive textual analysis","authors":"Dwi Ridho Aulianto","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09544-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09544-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines how the archival profession is represented through cultural media by analyzing the lyrics of the song <i>“Bangga Menjadi Arsiparis.”</i> While archival scholarship has extensively addressed records, governance, and technological transformation, less attention has been given to how professional identity and archival values are communicated within popular culture. Treating song lyrics as a cultural text, this study employs a qualitative reflexive textual analysis to explore how archival meaning is constructed narratively and symbolically. The analysis demonstrates that the lyrics represent archivists as custodians of collective memory, ethical actors, and mediators of temporal continuity between past, present, and future. Professional pride is articulated as a collective identity grounded in responsibility and public trust rather than visibility or recognition. Archives are framed as infrastructures of accountability, while technological change is represented as an extension of archival practice that preserves core values such as authenticity and evidentiary reliability. Through its circulation beyond institutional settings, the song functions as a form of living archive that communicates archival values in affective and accessible ways. Conceptually, this study contributes to cultural approaches in archival science by foregrounding representation as a key site of archival meaning-making. Methodologically, it demonstrates the value of reflexive textual analysis for examining professional identity from within practice. The findings suggest that popular cultural media can complement institutional archives by enhancing archival literacy and professional visibility in contemporary societies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147938462","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":"A prospetto of 1803: records classification from Austrian Lombardy to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy","authors":"Dan Farrell","doi":"10.1007/s10502-026-09534-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-026-09534-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article provides a history of the records classification scheme that launched modern records management systems in Italy. It describes the government administrative reforms in Austrian Lombardy (1749-1796) and during the Napoleonic period (1796-1814), when institutional and bureaucratic transformations were energized by an emerging administrative discipline. The techniques of exercising public power and the intellectual technology used to manage records shared a toolkit that featured the concepts of function and competence. The growing confidence of archivists in analyzing the nature of government and its production of records led to a methodology for categorizing governmental subject matters; a rational archival order was ideally to reflect a rationalized administration. One result was the initiation of a systematic synthesis of registration and classification that would culminate in the modern <i>protocollo-titolario</i> system. In a historical narrative, the article reveals the crucial political and social changes affecting governmental and archival practice and, reciprocally, how by establishing a uniformity of classification, the public-law administrations of this era solidified state authority.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"26 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147797225","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}