ARCHIVAL SCIENCEPub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09409-7
Reine Rydén
{"title":"National archives, national memory? How national archives describe themselves and their mission","authors":"Reine Rydén","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09409-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09409-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a widespread notion that archives, especially national archival institutions, represent the nation’s memory. Historically, archives have played an important role for history writing, thereby contributing to the construction of national master narratives and the strengthening of national identities. What the association between archives and memory actually means is however debated in archival literature. Taking the discussion on the relation between archives and memory as a starting point, this study examines how national archives in today’s world present themselves to the public. The source material consists of mission statements collected from 138 webpages and 18 Facebook accounts all over the world. The first research question concerns the connection between mission statements and a national master narrative, the second asks where references to national memory and national identity are most pronounced, and the third asks whether self-images of national archives can be connected to historical experiences. The analysis shows that mission statements contain many allusions to history and heritage, while references to memory and identity are less widespread than expected. Some variations between continents, and between different groups of countries are identified, although relatively small. A possible explanation is that national archives are engaged in quite a lot of international cooperation, for instance in the International Council on Archives and UNESCO. Thus, they are likely to be as much influenced by each other as by the political environment in their own countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 3","pages":"297 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-023-09409-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49071472","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 : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09408-8
Jeremy Davet, Babak Hamidzadeh, Patricia Franks
{"title":"Archivist in the machine: paradata for AI-based automation in the archives","authors":"Jeremy Davet, Babak Hamidzadeh, Patricia Franks","doi":"10.1007/s10502-023-09408-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-023-09408-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recently introduced into the archival sphere, ‘paradata’ is a conceptual framework for defining the character of information resource processing. (Davet J, Hamidzadeh B, Franks P, Bunn J (2022) Tracking the functions of AI as paradata & pursuing archival accountability. In: Archiving 2022: Final Programs and Proceedings, 7-10 June 2022. Society for imaging science and technology, Springfield, VA, USA, pp 83–88) While it need not be applied exclusively to artificial intelligence-based automated systems, paradata can be, should be, and is currently used to explicate the function of AI in the archives. The use of paradata in relation to AI can help ensure that archival ethical principles continue to be honored in an age of increasing automation. This paper summarizes the theoretical background of paradata, documentation created during recent experiments with machine learning-based AI which gestures toward the varieties of paradata already being collected by researchers, and some of the factors which condition paradata’s use. A few currently available data structures for the representation and display of paradata are evaluated, with an eye toward their suitability for different stakeholder groups. Future directions for theoretical and practical research are suggested.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 2","pages":"275 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44909767","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 : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.1007/s10502-022-09407-1
Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak, James Lowry, Nadiia Kravchenko
{"title":"“Maybe in a few years I'll be able to look at it”: a preliminary study of documentary issues in the Ukrainian refugee experience","authors":"Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak, James Lowry, Nadiia Kravchenko","doi":"10.1007/s10502-022-09407-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-022-09407-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Following the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia, millions of refugees have fled Ukraine for safety in neighbouring countries, including Poland. This movement of people has been facilitated by, and has produced, documentation that will have significant afterlives as evidence and memory. The records refugees have carried with them, the records they have made during flight, and the records created in their encounters with states and communities beyond their homeland, will be important in the prosecution of war crimes, the reconstruction of events, the reconstitution of communities and the protection of rights and entitlements. This article sets out the findings of a pilot study into the documentary experiences of Ukrainian refugees in Poland. Interviews conducted by and with Ukrainian refugees consider the removal of records, the documentation of the refugee experience, the documentary requirements of border crossings, and the informational requirements of life beyond the border. Although drawing on a limited study population, the research surfaces some significant issues related to the preservation of memory and culture, exclusionary and hostile government information systems, and research ethics. This article could help to inform archival solidarity with Ukraine; it underscores the need for trauma-informed archival research and practice; and finally suggests the need for a person-centered approach to this work.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 2","pages":"247 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-022-09407-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9499700","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 : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1007/s10502-022-09406-2
Trevor Owens, Jonah Estess
{"title":"Slide decks as government publications: exploring two decades of PowerPoint files archived from US government websites","authors":"Trevor Owens, Jonah Estess","doi":"10.1007/s10502-022-09406-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-022-09406-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the last three decades, US government agencies have published hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of PowerPoint files on the web. Hundreds of thousands of these files have been captured and preserved in web archives. With that noted, it remains difficult to find and interact with these files. This paper analyzes a public dataset of 1,000 PowerPoints from US government websites in the Library of Congress web archives to explore the properties of these kinds of files. This publicly available dataset published in 2019 includes a random sample of a thousand files from the more than 300,000 files that purport a PowerPoint media type in the Library of Congress web archives. The study focuses on characterizing the nature of these publications, the extent to which embedded metadata in these documents could be used to improve access to them and exploring what properties of these files are likely to be important to future users. Exploring these data provides a means to begin to understand the value and nature of PowerPoint files as a format of government publishing and government records.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 2","pages":"223 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42619076","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 : 2022-10-29DOI: 10.1007/s10502-022-09405-3
Shai Srougo
{"title":"Use of port archives made public: criticism of hegemonic history pertaining to the Jewish presence in Greek Thessaloniki","authors":"Shai Srougo","doi":"10.1007/s10502-022-09405-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-022-09405-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Thessaloniki Port Archives, whose collections were recently catalogued, cover the history of the waterfront from the 1920s to the present day. Among their various collections, the Minutes Books of the Port Authority for the 1920s–1940s are a unique repository that sheds light on unknown chapters in the history of local Jews who found a living in dock works. While the Jewish Salonikian historiography identifies the early 1920s as the period in which local Jews were in fact excluded from the port labor market, the Minutes Books tell a very different story; a reality of continued presence until the German Occupation of World War II. Studying the dock activities contributes to the ongoing discussion on Greek Jewry in terms of memory, metanarrative, and archiving, and by using the postmodern lens on the archiving process, this research will also be able to offer new perspectives on the economic history of Salonikian Jews in the challenging times of the interwar years, and in World War II as well.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 2","pages":"207 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44622688","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 : 2022-10-17DOI: 10.1007/s10502-022-09403-5
Mark Farrell, Bert Gordijn, Alan J. Kearns
{"title":"Accountability, human rights and social justice in public sector recordkeeping","authors":"Mark Farrell, Bert Gordijn, Alan J. Kearns","doi":"10.1007/s10502-022-09403-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-022-09403-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Accountability, human rights and social justice are inextricably linked. Rights cannot be defended and upheld, and inequalities cannot be highlighted and challenged in the absence of accountability. In recent decades, recordkeepers have increasingly emphasised the role of archives and records in facilitating accountability, upholding rights and exposing instances of social injustice. This paper assesses the twenty-first-century recordkeeping literature as it relates to the ethical issues of accountability, human rights and social justice in public sector recordkeeping. While there is some consensus on the role of recordkeeping with regard to accountability and human rights, there is less agreement regarding social justice, which remains a contested and poorly defined concept in the literature. The debates around accountability, human rights and social justice impact on perceptions of the role of the archivist and have led to a strong trend towards more activist interpretations, with increasing calls for greater inclusion and the development of participatory recordkeeping models. Despite this trend, implementation remains a challenge, and the gap between theory and practice needs to be continually addressed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 2","pages":"161 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-022-09403-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45371995","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 : 2022-10-17DOI: 10.1007/s10502-022-09404-4
Henriette Roued, Helene Castenbrandt, Bárbara Ana Revuelta-Eugercios
{"title":"Search, save and share: family historians’ engagement practices with digital platforms","authors":"Henriette Roued, Helene Castenbrandt, Bárbara Ana Revuelta-Eugercios","doi":"10.1007/s10502-022-09404-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-022-09404-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Alongside established heritage institutions, family historians are central figures in the ecosystem of digital heritage, both as contributors to and users of digitized historical sources. With that in mind, this research aims for a wide examination of family historians' engagement with the broader selection of available digital platforms, providing knowledge about how and why they choose to use one platform over another. This knowledge is important for the future development of sustainable digital platforms in the heritage sector. With a large variety of digitized source providers, many with free access platforms, Denmark and Danish family historians make an excellent case for this study. Through both a questionnaire and focus group interviews, using a grounded theory approach, this study has developed a model of engagement with digital platforms, referred to as a buffet model. This model illustrates how family historians pick and choose from a selection of digital platforms throughout their search and management of information as well as their community interaction. Moreover, through the lens of the Serious Leisure Perspective we find that family history is often a life-long leisure activity and family historians’ usage of digital platforms support this finding.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 2","pages":"187 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-022-09404-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9500548","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 : 2022-09-29DOI: 10.1007/s10502-022-09402-6
Catarina Santos, Jorge Revez
{"title":"Correction: Applying Records in Contexts in Portugal: the case of the scientific correspondence from António de Barros Machado and Dora Lustig archive","authors":"Catarina Santos, Jorge Revez","doi":"10.1007/s10502-022-09402-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-022-09402-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 2","pages":"159 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47583195","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 : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1007/s10502-022-09401-7
Catarina Santos, Jorge Revez
{"title":"Applying Records in Contexts in Portugal: the case of the scientific correspondence from António de Barros Machado and Dora Lustig archive","authors":"Catarina Santos, Jorge Revez","doi":"10.1007/s10502-022-09401-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-022-09401-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The scientific exchange correspondence of the Dundo Museum Biology Laboratory (Angola), included in the archive of António de Barros Machado (1912–2002) and Dora Lustig (1907–1986), constitutes a valuable repository of information for the history of contemporary science, particularly in the field of natural sciences—botany, entomology, mammals, ornithology, primates, reptiles, termites, zoogeography, zoology—and of biology.\u0000 This paper describes the application of the Records in Contexts model to the correspondence collection, with the aim of representing two realities: its production context and the relationships between scientists. The exploration of the model sought to understand its fundamentals and, simultaneously, model the information, starting by identifying the entities, attributes and relations needed for the collection representation scheme. This study resulted in a modelling exercise of the relations between 11 correspondents and the director of the Dundo Museum Biology Laboratory, Barros Machado, regarding the work on the museum collections which culminated in the publication of scientific articles in <i>Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola</i> [Cultural Publications of the Diamond Company of Angola]. In the future, it is proposed to apply the same scheme to the description of the remaining scientists in the epistolary collection.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 2","pages":"137 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-022-09401-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48608403","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 : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1007/s10502-022-09400-8
Ricardo L. Punzalan
{"title":"Archives and the Digital World","authors":"Ricardo L. Punzalan","doi":"10.1007/s10502-022-09400-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10502-022-09400-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46131,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVAL SCIENCE","volume":"23 1","pages":"3 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10502-022-09400-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10749400","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}