{"title":"‘No Diving’: Recovered Film and Recovered Memories","authors":"J. Stevens","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2010.506789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2010.506789","url":null,"abstract":"‘No Diving’ was a site-specific oral history and moving image installation funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund that examined the lido at Hilsea, Portsmouth as a locus for memories and recollections by the local community. The project set out to recover archive film of the building and record oral history interviews contextualising this found material, which would eventually be re-projected on to the building as a site-specific event. The project brought the artist to a personal, and the community to a collective moment of catharsis as the images and voices played over the lido superstructure. For the artist: a moment where personal and family history colludes with the sense of belonging embodied within an architectural space. For the community: a moment of reflection and re-projection of collective memories in which archive films and oral histories relocate the past within the present. The project was designed as an experimental/experiential documentary system that would engage with the community as producers of their own historical identity. The project questioned the nature of documentary since the real documentary could only be shown at the lido as a live performance event in which the audience participated as observers and the observed. In this way, the building served as a bi-directional apparatus, which simultaneously captures and re-projects historical identities through the camera lens of the project process. This project model is transferable and can be pointed at any building or architectural location. It turns a building into a living museum; a site of community practice that produces history and re-circulates identities.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"31 1","pages":"163 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2010.506789","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58832906","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":"Digital Curation at Gloucestershire Archives: From Ingest to Production by Way of Trusted Storage","authors":"Viv Cothey","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2010.508602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2010.508602","url":null,"abstract":"Gloucestershire Archives has developed SCAT (‘Scat is Curation And Trust’) which is a digital curation workbench tool for archivists in local government archive services. SCAT enables learning about digital curation by ‘doing’. In addition to learning through practice, SCAT provides for practice based advocacy relating to digital continuity. SCAT addresses the digital curation lifecycle including monitoring the performance of a trusted dark store provider and ‘producing’ digitally based material for user access. Gloucestershire Archives has made SCAT freely available. It is hoped that other archive services can experiment with SCAT and more effectively join in digital curation developments.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"31 1","pages":"207 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2010.508602","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58834028","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":"Use of Controlled Vocabulary and Thesauri in UK Online Finding Aids","authors":"Candida Fenton","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2010.506792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2010.506792","url":null,"abstract":"Little attention has previously been paid to the use of controlled vocabularies and subject keywords for indexing archival finding aids in the UK. Qualitative and quantitative responses to a questionnaire of UK repositories concerning the use of subject keywords and controlled vocabularies are presented. Clear patterns of thesaurus usage emerge from responses, and diverse opinions are put forward. Issues raised include retrieval by free text versus controlled vocabulary, strengths and weaknesses of different thesauri, lack of suitable thesauri, use of multiple thesauri, retrospective conversion, consistency of indexing across repositories and consistency of indexing across networks. Possible ways forward for the subject indexing of finding aids are identified.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"31 1","pages":"187 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2010.506792","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58833551","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":"Journal of the Society of Archivists","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2010.528265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2010.528265","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"31 1","pages":"ebi - ebi"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2010.528265","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58834859","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":"Notices of New Publications Received","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2010.507922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2010.507922","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"31 1","pages":"245 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2010.507922","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58833619","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":"What Happened to the BBC Sound Archive?","authors":"Simon Rooks","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2010.506791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2010.506791","url":null,"abstract":"There is no longer a Sound Archive department at the BBC, and no one bears the title ‘Sound Archivist’. This article first explains how and why recording became established at the BBC and how an accumulation of recordings necessitated management as the value of their content began to be recognised. The question of what happened to the BBC Sound Archive is explored through examining the approach taken by those who established the collection, and by following the development of policy and practice from those early days to the present. Also posed is the question of the extent to which the archive today bears any recognisable legacy of the work and objectives of the pioneers of the 1930s and 40s.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"31 1","pages":"177 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2010.506791","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58832950","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":"Suffolk Voices Restored","authors":"Bridget Hanley","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2010.506788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2010.506788","url":null,"abstract":"‘Suffolk Voices Restored’ is a Heritage Lottery funded project aiming to preserve and improve access to oral history recordings held at Suffolk Record Office. The project seeks to preserve the authentic voice of Suffolk and make it accessible for current and future generations. This article describes the history and development of the project, including its use of volunteers and input from school students, with information about the content of the resource.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"31 1","pages":"149 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2010.506788","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58833347","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":"Representing the Act: Records and Speech Act Theory","authors":"Geoffrey Yeo","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2010.506782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2010.506782","url":null,"abstract":"Speech act theory was developed in the twentieth century by the philosophers J. L. Austin and John Searle. This paper provides a brief introduction to the theory and then explores some aspects of it that seem relevant to concepts in archival science, particularly connections between speech act theory and a conceptualisation of records as persistent representations. The paper focuses on ideas about the role of representation in the performance of speech acts, the potential impact of speech act theory on perceptions of the record, and the importance of societal conventions in understanding the affinities of records to human action. It argues that records have performative characteristics and that, by potentially offering a middle way between the extremes of objectivist and interpretivist views, speech act theory can help us to comprehend relations between records, actions and events.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"31 1","pages":"117 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2010.506782","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58833077","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":"What are Archives? Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: A Reader","authors":"N. Curtis","doi":"10.1080/00379811003658526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379811003658526","url":null,"abstract":"change management in detail, as this is such a crucial success factor. In summary, the book provides an overview, as well as good practical advice, on the key areas of archives management. This includes methods for cleaning records and a recipe for starch paste, as well as advice on when to call in experts. The honesty of approach is very refreshing with, for example the statement that computers ‘won’t help you work out what a series is’. If you only buy one archives textbook, this is the one to have.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"31 1","pages":"76 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379811003658526","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58829529","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":"‘Without the Data, the Tools are Useless; Without the Software, the Data is Unmanageable’ 1","authors":"Michael Moss","doi":"10.1080/00379811003658443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379811003658443","url":null,"abstract":"Tim O'Reilly is one of the gurus of the contemporary information-laden landscape. From the perspective of one of his aphorisms this essay explores the relationship between the curation of information in the digital environment by archivists and records managers and the technologies that support it. The author argues that this will require a sharing of responsibility within a framework of trust. He maintains that a consequence of the financial crisis, in which technology has played a large contributing part, is that there will be a greater emphasis on transparency of electronic processes and not just inputs and outputs. In these developments he draws a distinction between records management operating within an institutional framework of risk, and the archive, particularly in the public sector, curating the records that will allow the executive to be brought to account. He concludes that such a restatement in a period of severe financial restraint will without doubt impact on the current ‘access’ agenda.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"31 1","pages":"1 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379811003658443","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58829426","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}