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Whose provenance? Plurality of provenance and the redistribution of archival authority 谁的出处？出处的多元性与档案权威的再分配

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09453-x

Jesse Boiteau

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Building ignorance by disseminating “evidence”: an agnotological look into the digital archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran 通过传播 "证据 "建立无知：对伊朗伊斯兰共和国数字档案的注释学研究

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09447-9

Natalia Pashkeeva

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A recontextualization of provenance: Records in Contexts and the principle of provenance 出处的重新语境化：语境中的记录与出处原则

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09460-y

Anouk Stephano

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Touches across time: queer as provenance 穿越时空的触摸：作为出处的同性恋

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09452-y

Elliot Freeman

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Custody, provenance and meaning in the context of state intelligence records: the case of las carpetas in Puerto Rico 国家情报记录的保管、来源和意义：波多黎各的 las carpetas 案例

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09454-w

Joel A. Blanco-Rivera

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An opportunity to stay connected: documenting personal communication records of military personnel 保持联系的机会：记录军事人员的个人通信记录

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09445-x

Allan A. Martell, Edward Benoit III

{"title":"An opportunity to stay connected: documenting personal communication records of military personnel","authors":"Allan A. Martell, Edward Benoit III","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09445-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09445-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While service and operational records of the US armed forces have been previously investigated, personal communication records of military personnel have received less attention in archival scholarship. Specifically, we are concerned with the ways that changes in technology challenge the preservation of personal communications records. This issue is important because personal communication records of service members, both active and retired, can support military personnel and their families in managing the stress of deployment. Moreover, such records can help military families cope with grief when a service member dies. In this study, we address this gap by exploring the communication practices of US military personnel who served between 2005 and 2020. We focus on how military personnel communicated with their friends and family, the records that resulted from such communications, and the impacts of information technologies and institutional policies of the armed forces in said recordkeeping practices. We found that these practices evolved in tandem with the information and communication technologies available to them, that military personnel employed a relational approach to records and recordkeeping, and that recordkeeping practices of personal communications were directly connected to factors such as the information policies of the armed forces and the blurred lines between the on and off duty lives of active service members. Based on our findings, we suggest that future work should develop guidelines that help service members and their families prioritize which personal communications to record and keep.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 3","pages":"351 - 385"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141942925","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}

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Recognising a kaleidoscopic archive: working with London Missionary Society records in the geekosphere’ 认识万花筒档案：在极客圈使用伦敦传教会记录

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09448-8

Deborah Lee-Talbot

{"title":"Recognising a kaleidoscopic archive: working with London Missionary Society records in the geekosphere’","authors":"Deborah Lee-Talbot","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09448-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09448-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article is an ultra-reflective account of an encounter with London Missionary Society (LMS) records through the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) collections at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) and the home office as socially and materially informed research spaces. The genealogies of surrogate archives are little analysed, yet they have complex pasts worth investigating. As Jasmine Burns (JALSNA 33: 150–167, 2024), the librarian and metadata specialist explained, information about an archive’s ancestry is valuable as it illuminates the history and a pattern of use beyond the original author’s intent. The subsequent discussion shows how I inspect descriptive categories associated with the AJCP LMS microfilmed and digitised records in the custody of SLV, the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the National Library of Australia, (NLA) showing how meaning was layered onto these records. Extending on the social historian Arlette Farge’s analogy of the archive as a kaleidoscope, I demonstrate the introductory process by which a historian determines absences and presences in the archive and to what extent the initial imperial categories used by archivists and librarians informed my research practices. By analysing the history of the LMS AJCP collection, I demonstrate how these Australian-Pacific artefacts contain layers of knowledge about historical cultures and relationships. The different agendas and experiences of librarians, archivists, and historians—all curators of historical records –have revealed or obscured encounter narratives concerning European and indigenous men and women.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 3","pages":"531 - 554"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-024-09448-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141969904","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}

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The disposal of paper public documents in the face of their digitization: what is lost? 纸质公共文件数字化后的处置：损失了什么？

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09446-w

Josimas Eugênio Silva, Michael David de Souza Dutra

{"title":"The disposal of paper public documents in the face of their digitization: what is lost?","authors":"Josimas Eugênio Silva, Michael David de Souza Dutra","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09446-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09446-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Documents serve as records of humanity's activities and are continuously generated. To fulfill their primary purpose effectively, these records require specific care and treatment. Some documents, due to their cultural and historical significance, are preserved for centuries, whether in physical form, digital format, or both. However, maintaining these documents entails financial costs. This study investigates the feasibility of discarding permanent physical documents following digitization, considering legal, social, and economic factors. An analysis was conducted regarding the legal and economic implications of destroying physical documents from permanent public archives after digitization. The findings reveal that while some countries allow for the reassessment and disposal of digitized permanent archive documents, this option is not available under Brazilian legislation. Consequently, duplicate management of permanent public archive documents occurs. Possible causes for this duplicate management are discussed, along with potential solutions. In economic terms, the estimated monthly cost of digitized permanent archives occupies a substantial portion of resources, with Brazilian courts alone spending close to R$ 0.5 million.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 3","pages":"415 - 437"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141718019","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}

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Creating a representative archive of performance practice at the National Theatre of Great Britain 创建具有代表性的英国国家剧院表演实践档案

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09444-y

Erin Lee

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Archival meta-metadata: revision history and positionality of finding aids 档案元数据：修订历史和查找辅助工具的定位

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10502-024-09443-z

Owen C. King

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