{"title":"Emotional responses in archival work","authors":"Cheryl Regehr, Wendy Duff, Jessica Ho, Christa Sato, Henria Aton","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09419-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09419-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Building on previous work investigating the impact of exposure to (a) records with traumatic potentialities and (b) interactions with donors and community researchers whose suffering is documented in the archives, this study sought to better understand emotional aspects of archival work. Using a diary research methodology, 15 archivists engaged in diary keeping for approximately four months. What emerged was a broad set of events and experiences that triggered a wide range of emotional responses arising from archival work. This included: pre-existing emotional states and characterological traits; emotional exchanges in the workplace with colleagues and others; emotional demands of the work (including emotion work and emotional labour); team and leader interactions arising from group tasks and leader behaviour; and organizational policies, climate, resources and demands. This broader set of interactional factors forms the foundation on which traumatic and other troubling events are encountered. Future research must consider the nature of archival organizations and interactions within them that contribute to the overall working experience. In addition, archival organizations need to take responsibility for creating a culture that demonstrates respect and appreciation for workers, acknowledges the interpersonal challenges of the work, and provides supports for archivists who are shouldering the challenges.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 4","pages":"545 - 568"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-023-09419-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47937554","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}
ARCHIVAL SCIENCEPub Date : 2023-06-17DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09417-7
Tom Nesmith
{"title":"The cloud, the public square, and digital public archival infrastructure","authors":"Tom Nesmith","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09417-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09417-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The increasing volume and importance of digital communication has prompted a major development in digital infrastructure for its storage and overall management—the cloud infrastructure owned for the most part by giant tech companies such as Amazon. Many governments have chosen to store their records in the cloud rather than invest in the increased digital infrastructure now required to manage them. Non-governmental institutions and private individuals are also using the cloud instead of their own infrastructure. The implications for public archives of this historic shift away from the publicly owned infrastructure long employed by them are profound. Yet, archivists and archival perspectives have not been much involved in public discussion of this change. They are largely absent from the public square. The shape of the emerging infrastructure underpinning the management of digital communication may well be the most significant lasting feature of the digital environment for societies and their archives. This article discusses why that development requires archival voices in the public square to address it.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 4","pages":"501 - 525"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-023-09417-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42717416","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}
ARCHIVAL SCIENCEPub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09418-6
Donna Lyon, Robyn Sloggett
{"title":"Narrating the preservation of a film school archive – Re-configuring the hero’s journey across the nexus of conservation and film production","authors":"Donna Lyon, Robyn Sloggett","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09418-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09418-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Narrating the preservation of a film school archive–Re-configuring the hero’s journey across the nexus of conservation and film production. In 2013, a program to secure the future of the more than 1800 films produced by students in the Victorian College of Arts’ Department of Film and Television commenced at the University of Melbourne. This is a highly significant collection, with films from 1966 to the present, that contains work by some of Australia’s pre-eminent producers, cinematographers, scriptwriters, and others. Utilising narrative frameworks theory, and particularly the victim to hero narrative, this paper explores the journey taken to preserve this archive and make it accessible to current and future students and the public. This makes explicit the value of narrative inquiry as a method for active rethinking and reframing of the project, the opportunities for democratisation and increasing plurality during the project and highlighted the need to contest the celebratory narrative of project completion to ensure that the continued risk to the hero-archive remains a central institutional concern.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 4","pages":"527 - 544"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-023-09418-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47513066","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}
ARCHIVAL SCIENCEPub Date : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09416-8
Kirsty Fife, Andrew Flinn, Julianne Nyhan
{"title":"Documenting resistance, conflict and violence: a scoping review of the role of participatory digital platforms in the mobilisation of resistance","authors":"Kirsty Fife, Andrew Flinn, Julianne Nyhan","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09416-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09416-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In recent years, grassroots movements have gained traction and significant numbers globally. Against longer histories of resistance and protest movements’ mobilisation of documentation, mechanisation and digital technologies, this scoping literature review seeks to understand how resistance and social movements have drawn upon the participatory and easily accessible nature of social media and digital platforms to mobilise new generations of activists, create new archives, document activities and abuses, call for accountability and overwrite or challenge the narratives put forward by mainstream media outlets and state archives. We identify relevant projects, explore the activist potential and threats of the combination of digital technologies, social movements, and documentary or archival practice, before concluding by identifying open research questions in relation to digital technologies, social movements and archival practice.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 3","pages":"471 - 499"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-023-09416-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49107059","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}
ARCHIVAL SCIENCEPub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09415-9
Elliot Freeman
{"title":"Defying description: searching for queer history in institutional archives","authors":"Elliot Freeman","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09415-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09415-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There are numerous obstacles to overcome when conducting queer historical research. While has been a steady increase in work to address the (in)visibility of queer histories and perspectives in institutional heritage collections, this work is often skewed towards outputs such as exhibitions or social media posts. As a result, very little work has been done to interrogate and transform the ways that these materials are managed and made accessible (or not). This paper considers how the lack of rich and explicit descriptive metadata shapes the (in)visibility and (in)accessibility of queer records within institutional archives. It reports the findings of a series of qualitative interviews I conducted with individuals who have searched for queer materials in archival collections in Australia. These interviews explored the practical process of searching for queer records in institutional archives; how researchers identify, locate, and access these records; and the challenges of this process—both in terms of a research methodology, and an experience for queer researchers within potentially hostile or unsafe spaces.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 3","pages":"447 - 470"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-023-09415-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42008239","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}
ARCHIVAL SCIENCEPub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09414-w
Julie McLeod, Elizabeth Lomas
{"title":"Record DNA: reconceptualising digital records as the future evidence base","authors":"Julie McLeod, Elizabeth Lomas","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09414-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09414-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A major issue facing society is the extent to which the usability of the digital evidence base is at risk because, in the digital era, the concept of the record has been eroded. The nature and reality of a record are no longer agreed. Addressing the challenges that the digital presents for managing records and assuring their future usability is not one that records and archives scholars and professionals can tackle alone. This article argues that this is a ‘grand challenge’ which requires a broad range of perspectives and expertise and convergence research to resolve. It discusses findings from an international multidisciplinary research network established to critically explore, through a grounded theory approach, the nature of a digital record and the implications of the digital era for the usability and functionality of the future evidence base. A series of different visions of a digital record emerged alongside a wide-ranging set of research questions that form the basis of an agenda for future collaborative (convergence) research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 3","pages":"411 - 446"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-023-09414-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9715223","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}
ARCHIVAL SCIENCEPub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09413-x
Jamie A. Lee, Bianca Finley Alper, aems emswiler
{"title":"Origin stories and the shaping of the community-based archives","authors":"Jamie A. Lee, Bianca Finley Alper, aems emswiler","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09413-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09413-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper centers a three-year research project into community-based archives and the power of their naming practices. Expanding the idea of naming practices to further consider how the archives itself is defined and understood by the creators, donors, and communities that are represented therein, the co-authors consider the emergent focus on origin stories told about the founding of community-based archives. The lead author attends to the community/institution dichotomy to consider how such relationality insists on a both/and understanding wherein the language of the origin story is centered in relations and informs how archives continue to become. Through auto-ethnographic and intimate theorizing and analysis, the lead author offers a self-critique on naming practices and self-identification to account for the shape of the archives over time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 3","pages":"381 - 410"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46266602","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}
ARCHIVAL SCIENCEPub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09412-y
Karen Anderson, Gillian Oliver
{"title":"Farewell and thank you to Beth Yakel; welcome to Fiorella Foscarini","authors":"Karen Anderson, Gillian Oliver","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09412-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09412-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49332001","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}
ARCHIVAL SCIENCEPub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09411-z
Diana E. Marsh, Selena St. Andre, Travis Wagner, Joshua A. Bell
{"title":"Attitudes and uses of archival materials among science-based anthropologists","authors":"Diana E. Marsh, Selena St. Andre, Travis Wagner, Joshua A. Bell","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09411-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09411-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While archival user studies have largely focused on humanities (and adjacent) scholars, this paper focuses on anthropologists engaged in scientific research. Based on qualitative results from an open-ended survey, we investigate how science-based anthropologists perceive and use archives in their work. We ask: How are science-based anthropologists and archaeologists reusing archival data in their research? What difficulties or barriers do they encounter in reusing archival data in scientific contexts? What attitudes or understandings about archival research are held by science-based anthropologists and archaeologists? Our findings primarily add to the body of literature about user experience in archives and more broadly to the emerging literature on archival data reuse. Major findings include (1) barriers and gatekeeping legacies that impact archival research and the ability of researchers to reuse data and (2) mixed perceptions about archives among researchers. We also discuss suggestions made by these communities of practice, and the ways that barriers to archival data reuse may stem from a lack of knowledge about core archival and information infrastructures among researcher communities. Together, this research showcases possible (re)uses of important primary source data in archives among scientific communities but highlights that barriers to access and misperceptions create a gap in exploiting that potential. We argue for a “re-imagining” of anthropological archives as relevant to contemporary communities and scientific pursuits toward a richer scientific research environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 3","pages":"355 - 379"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-023-09411-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10752178","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}
ARCHIVAL SCIENCEPub Date : 2023-02-03DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09410-0
Pelle Tracey, Patricia Garcia, Ricardo Punzalan
{"title":"Recordkeeping, logistics, and translation: a study of homeless services systems as infrastructure","authors":"Pelle Tracey, Patricia Garcia, Ricardo Punzalan","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09410-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09410-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Homeless services systems provide unhoused individuals access to emergency shelter, subsidized housing, and other life-sustaining resources. In this paper, we present a qualitative study that draws on the experiences of fifteen social service workers to examine how recordkeeping practices sustain homeless services systems and unite a tangled web of institutions and actors, including public housing systems, nonprofit agencies, and local governments. We address the following research questions: How is the infrastructure of homeless services sustained by recordkeeping? How are social service workers affected by increasing recordkeeping demands? In what ways do social service workers work against or ‘find the play’ in this system? To address these questions, we collected interviews and conducted artifact walkthroughs with our study participants. We analyzed the data using an infrastructural lens and found that current recordkeeping practices within homeless services systems comprise an \"infrastructure of last resort\" that functions logistically, prioritizing efficiency and speed. We also found that social service workers “speak back” to logistification by making the homeless services infrastructure more legible to their unhoused clients through mediation and acts of translation that help to produce better resource outcomes. Our findings show how structuring recordkeeping in ways that privilege efficiency and speed disrupts social service work and interferes with social service workers’ ability to provide care for vulnerable individuals facing life-altering and life-threatening hardships.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 3","pages":"327 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-023-09410-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10696982","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}