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{"title":"Returning love to Ancestors captured in the archives: Indigenous wellbeing, sovereignty and archival sovereignty","authors":"Kirsten Thorpe","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09440-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09440-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the holistic needs of First Nations people in the archives to control their cultural heritage materials with dignity and respect. It highlights the importance of the archives supporting Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing. Indigenous people’s spiritual and emotional needs are addressed by considering the support for Indigenous people’s wellbeing in the archives. Models of social, emotional and cultural wellbeing are presented as alternatives to discussing the need for Indigenous cultural safety in the archives. A definition of <i>Indigenous wellbeing, sovereignty and archival sovereignty</i> provides an approach to caring for historical records with dignity and respect and a framework for the local care and protection of Indigenous people’s knowledge into the future. The concept of <i>Returning Love to Ancestors Captured in the Archives</i> (Thorpe 2022), extending the work of (Harkin 2019) and Baker et al. (2020), is offered as a significant reform needed in the approaches to managing historical archives. The paper concludes by sharing a case study of the <i>In Living Memory</i> photographic exhibition, drawn on images created by the former New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board to demonstrate archival approaches supporting principles of trust, benefit sharing and reciprocal relationships. Combined, they respond to the pressing need for designing respectful archiving approaches for future generations that do not reproduce harm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 2","pages":"125 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-024-09440-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141110258","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":"Dignity by design: pathways to participatory recordkeeping systems","authors":"Elliot Freeman,&nbsp;Violet Hamence-Davies,&nbsp;Joanne Evans","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09442-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09442-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 2","pages":"119 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141116146","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 access: (re)designing archival guides for changing landscapes","authors":"Mike Jones,&nbsp;Rebe Taylor","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09441-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09441-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In 2013, the authors of this article and their colleague Gavan McCarthy published <i>Stories in Stone: an annotated history and guide to the collections of Ernest Westlake (1855–1922).</i> The guide provided contextual information and digital access to the entire paper archives relating to the three large stone collections formed by Westlake during his lifetime: French and English geological specimens housed in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History from 1924, and a collection of Tasmanian Aboriginal stone tools stored in the Pitt Rivers Museum since 1923. The Tasmanian collections, formed by Westlake from 1908 to 1910, are highly significant to the Palawa (or Pakana or Tasmanian Aboriginal) community because they include objects made by ancestors, and words spoken by ancestors to Westlake and recorded in his field notebooks. <i>Stories in Stone</i> was created to improve access to Westlake’s Tasmanian collections for the Palawa community with whom author Rebe Taylor had worked closely since 1999. Nonetheless, the structural and technical design of <i>Stories in Stone</i> was not Palawa-led. It was driven by Australian and international archiving standards; by stipulations set out by the collecting institutions; and by the stories of collecting and subsequent scholarship on the collections. In 2023, <i>Stories in Stone</i> is offline, and the authors are planning a relaunch. This time they aim to reach beyond their original aim of providing archival access <i>to</i> the Palawa community, and work <i>with</i> Palawa community to co-design <i>how</i> that access is delivered. This consultative work will be done at the University of Tasmania, where Palawa advisors and other Indigenous scholars have been integral to developing international Indigenous data sovereignty principals. This article precedes those formal discussions and thus offers a timely reflection on the original aims and design of <i>Stories in Stone</i> as well as an extensive analysis of broader changes in the management and dissemination of First Nations collections and culture. Such changes include: international human rights frameworks; movements supporting data and archival sovereignty; co-designed archival technologies; and increased focus on archives as <i>process</i> not merely <i>product</i>. These developments will lay the foundations for the next version of <i>Stories in Stone</i>, which aims to go beyond access, scholarship, and standards by helping to facilitate First Nations’ aspirations for dignity, sovereignty, and self-determination.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 2","pages":"143 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-024-09441-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140935532","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 need for a participatory recordkeeping system for children and young people placed in residential care homes: the case of Sweden","authors":"Proscovia Svard,&nbsp;Sheila Zimic","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09437-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09437-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study demonstrates the need for participatory recordkeeping to promote the right of children and young people placed in Swedish residential care homes to record-making, to facilitate access to a complete record of their placements. It is further through record-making that the experiences of the placed individuals can be used to inform practice and policymaking. Currently, the placed individuals’ experiences of the residential homes are captured at the discretion of the residential homeowners and the social workers. A rights-based archival and recordkeeping paradigm would promote the design of records management systems with the children and the young people at the center and hence allow them to participate in the record-making processes which would give them a voice. Currently, records from the placed individuals, the residential care homeowners and the parents/guardians are sent to the municipalities through electronic and physical channels and in different formats such as SMS, audio files, and paper documents. These records are captured in the Integrated Children System (ICS), according to the guidelines of the National Board for Health and Welfare and at the discretion of the social workers. The authors therefore argue that recordkeeping systems should give all the involved stakeholders a right to independently participate in the record-making or the documentation process with the placed individuals at the center. It is the totality of the captured records that should give the placed individuals a complete record of their experiences of the placements. It should be the basis upon which the quality of care is assessed and improved. Two case studies were used to access the information management environment. The placed children should have a right to access all the records captured in the recordkeeping system to give them an understanding of their lives in the present and the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 2","pages":"209 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140803030","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 perpetual twilight of records: consentful recordkeeping as moral defence","authors":"Gregory Rolan,&nbsp;Antonina Lewis","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09438-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09438-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this article, we examine the significance of establishing participatory and consentful recordkeeping practice in the face of ubiquitous use of records beyond their original intent. Among such secondary uses is the decontextualisation of data as part of the 'industrialisation' of access and use of ‘historical’ records within current transactional contexts, together with a wide range of data sharing practices arising from contemporary data science paradigms. To situate the call to action for consentful recordkeeping practice, we begin the article by exploring how human ability to navigate through the perpetual twilight of records becomes increasingly murky when a wholesale approach to data collection and governance is applied by machine learning practitioners. We then re-frame some classical archival principles to align them with participatory approaches; specifically, by expanding the scope of Jenkinsonian ‘moral defence’ as an imperative for proactive engagement with the Archival Multiverse. We then describe a case study of consentful recordkeeping in practice, using the example of the AiLECS Lab’s newly developed collection acquisition and management system. This principles-based framework informs our practices for collecting and curating datasets for machine learning research and development and aims to privilege the ongoing consent of those represented in records to their use. In the context of this work, our core premise is that technologies designed to prevent exploitation of children should aim to avoid underlying data practices that are themselves exploitative (of children or adults).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 2","pages":"257 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-024-09438-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140803196","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 dignity, colonial records and community narratives","authors":"Jeannette A. Bastian,&nbsp;Stanley H. Griffin","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09436-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09436-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The archival memory of the Caribbean is built on the documentary legacies of colonialism. From slave registers to plantation deeds, the shelves of Caribbean Archives are filled with the records of colonial conquest, enslavement and suppression. Yet within these former Caribbean colonies—now small independent nations—is the evidence of human triumph over adversity, pride in self-sufficiency and a fierce and persistence dedication to political and social independence. That evidence is manifest through political movements, oral narratives, heroic legends and through alternate, different readings of the colonial records. These alternate readings are among the issues considered in this essay as it addresses the rethinking of a history that foregrounds the marginalized and highlights a dignity that has been suppressed. A case study of a website from the small island-nation of St. Kitts and Nevis demonstrates how the web is proving its agility in responding to complex understandings of history by enabling the uniting of both tangible and intangible community knowledge and heritage as it also eases access to official archival collections.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 2","pages":"167 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140676960","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":"Designing recordkeeping systems for transitional justice and peace: ‘on the ground’ experiences and practices relating to organizations supporting conflict-affected peoples","authors":"Victoria Lemieux,&nbsp;Amber Gallant,&nbsp;Panthea Pourmalek,&nbsp;Hoda Hamouda,&nbsp;Nicole Johnston,&nbsp;Samantha El-Ghazal,&nbsp;Jon Unruh,&nbsp;Niloufar Vahid-Massoudi","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09439-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09439-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article presents survey results examining the design and implementation of recordkeeping systems for organizations supporting conflict-affected individuals displaced from their homes, lands, and property (HLP). The study highlights the potential of digital systems to overcome limitations of legacy HLP recordkeeping, but also addresses the risks associated with technology in vulnerable contexts. Emphasizing the connection between records and personal identity, the authors advocate for recordkeeping systems that consider the needs, rights, and dignity of displaced people. Drawing on participatory and rights-based approaches, a framework for supporting HLP claims through system design is proposed. The findings offer insights into tailoring such an approach for conflict-affected contexts, stressing the importance of technological upgrades and careful design considerations to prevent harm. The article aims to contribute to the development of effective recordkeeping systems for displaced populations, calling for further research and collaboration in this field.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 2","pages":"227 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140676277","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":"Instituting a framework for reparative description","authors":"Stephanie M. Luke,&nbsp;Sharon Mizota","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09435-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09435-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article describes a study to understand how galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) in the United States are undertaking reparative description efforts. The study involved interviews with representatives from nineteen institutions that had published or presented on their implementation of reparative description between 2017 and 2020. The authors inquired about the nature of reparative description efforts at the institution, how the work was initiated and conducted, and the interviewees’ thoughts about its long-term sustainability at the organization. This article highlights findings from these interviews and the trends that emerged. One of the most significant discoveries was the difficulty GLAM workers reported in assessing the impact of reparative description work, an issue that many interviewees believed could negatively affect the trajectory and progress of the work in the future. Informed by the study’s findings, the authors developed a tool to assist institutions in evaluating and benchmarking their initiatives. The Maturity Model for Reparative Description (MMRD), describes and classifies reparative description work across eight evaluative categories. The authors offer the MMRD as a flexible model for institutions to adopt and adapt as a framework for assessing their reparative description work, measuring the progress of their initiatives, and planning and projecting areas of strategic growth.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 3","pages":"481 - 508"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140365754","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":"Archiving difficult realities: a systematic investigation of records related to sexual violence in US college and university archives","authors":"Ana Roeschley,&nbsp;Julie Miller,&nbsp;Alison Nikitopoulos,&nbsp;Morgan Davis Gieringer,&nbsp;Jessica Holden","doi":"10.1007/s10502-024-09434-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-024-09434-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is no clear guidance or standards for US campus archivists on how to best describe records that contain information on sexual violence. While there are well-established standards for archival description, decisions for how to best describe sensitive material are mostly left for individual archival institutions to decide. The lack of agreed-upon professional guidelines could make description decisions difficult in an environment like a college campus where attention on the topic may be taboo. However, as many campus archives’ mission statements unequivocally state, college and university archives are repositories of campus history and wider societal issues. This puts campus archives and archivists directly in the center of responsibility to document histories that are part of enduring difficult realities. Through a systematic investigation of US campus archival finding aids, this study explores how the problem of sexual violence is represented in campus archives’ holdings. Findings indicate that while campus archives do collect records on sexual violence, records related to the topic may belong to collections that are not associated with campus history, records on campus sexual assault are not always consistently described in campus archives, and discoverability of relevant records can be problematic. Study results suggest that further research on the topic and development of resources on best practices are needed to support campus archivists in this work.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 3","pages":"387 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140204374","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":"It’s only a mirage: Tahar Djaout’s critique of logocentrism in L’Invention du désert","authors":"Abdelkader Aoudjit","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09428-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09428-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Set in Algeria, France, and the Arabian Peninsula in the early twelfth and the late twentieth centuries, <i>L’Invention du désert</i> is about an author who reexamines his life and his craft while writing a history of the Almoravid dynasty that ruled Andalusia and a large portion of the Maghreb from 1056 to 1152 CE. Accordingly, the novel is made of two basic narrative strands. The first focuses on the private musings and reminiscences of the narrator, moving forwards and backwards in space and time and going all the way to his childhood. The second narrative strand recounts the life, rise to power, and downfall of Mohamed ibn Toumert, the religious scholar and zealot whose followers brought down the Almoravids and founded the Almohad dynasty that lasted from 1152 to 1269 CE. The two major story-lines that constitute the novel are brought together by the narrator’s reflection on history and archiving for the purpose of problematizing the way Algerian history is conceived and used to address two major social and political concerns confronting Algerians: religious fundamentalism and national identity. The purpose of this article is to examine how Djaout uses the desert both as a topography and a metaphor to challenge the logocentrism of religious fundamentalism and narrow and essentialist definitions of Algerianess. The paper at the same time shows how the understanding and critique of historical logocentrism that are advanced in <i>L’Invention du désert</i> parallel Jacques Derrida’s philosophy put forward in Of Grammatology (Derrida in Of grammatology, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1976) and other early works. Because the manuscripts, critical of Islam as practiced under Almoravid rule, Ibn Toumert carries with him function as archives, the paper also engages with some of the themes Derrida developed later in Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (Derrida in Archive fever: a Freudian impression, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"24 3","pages":"289 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-023-09428-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140148161","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}