Monthly Archives: July 2011

Hacking the archives: Archival description in an online world

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

How do we ensure that “meaning as well as content lies at the end of the road to discovery?” Recordkeepers strive to contextualise, authenticate and preserve evidence. They create detailed descriptive tools and infrastructures as means to describe and manage … Continue reading →

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Save the date..

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

August 24 to be precise. We’re working on our next event, again at the Technology Park in Redfern. Probably a slightly earlier start time of 5pm for 5.30. The topic, speakers and other details will be released very soon!  

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IQ story on our March ‘After Wikileaks..’ event

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

For those not on the IQ magazine mailing list, here’s a scan of my report on our March ‘After Wikileaks..’ event. IQ article ‘After Wikileaks is it all over for The Archive?’ (PDF, 3.6MB)

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Archivists, librarians and WikiLeaks

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

If you’ve followed this blog you will know that our first Recordkeeping Roundtable event, in March 2011, was on the subject of WikiLeaks (‘After WikiLeaks, is it all over for the Archives?’). At that session we explored, amongst other things, … Continue reading →

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