Author Archives: Cassie Findlay
Reflection on ‘Recordkeeping theory, models & strategies and today’s workplace’ March 2021
By Barbara Reed Our recent Recordkeeping Roundtable event was inspired by James Lappin’s recent article, Rival records management models in an era of partial automation. This was a welcome contribution, partly because so much of the current records discussion is … Continue reading
Online event: Recordkeeping theory, models & strategies and today’s workplace
Provoked and intrigued by the recent discussion spurred by James Lappin’s article (cited below), the Recordkeeping Roundtable crew have been inspired to create a virtual panel discussion, featuring James, Chris Hurley, Andrew Waugh and Nicola Forbes. We’d love you to … Continue reading
A review of Archival Futures (Caroline Brown, ed.) by Adrian Cunningham
Longtime friend of the Recordkeeping Roundtable Adrian Cunningham worked for 36 years in collecting archives, government archives and in university settings and research projects. During that time his work traversed almost all functional areas of archival endeavour, with his latter-day … Continue reading
Recordkeeping Roundcasts Episode 5: Personal data, privacy and looking ahead
In part 2 of our chat with Ellen Broad, we talks about privacy and changing attitudes to data about – and of – ourselves. Ellen’s book, Made by Humans: The AI Condition is available from Melbourne University Press, or from all the big … Continue reading
Recordkeeping Roundcasts Episode 4: AI, accountability and archives
In this latest episode of Recordkeeping Roundcasts, we talk to Ellen Broad, author of Made by Humans: The AI Condition, about the way that rapidly advancing technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning are being deployed in business, government and society, … Continue reading
Recordkeeping Roundcasts Episode 3: Machine learning
In this episode, we conclude our three part conversation with The National Archives UK’s John Sheridan, with a chat about machine learning and its possible applications in the management and use of records. Our thanks again to John for being … Continue reading
Recordkeeping Roundcasts Episode 2: Project ARCHANGEL and distributed ledger experimentation
In this episode of Recordkeeping Roundcasts, we pick up the conversation with TNA’s John Sheridan, turning to the experimentation that he and colleagues at allied institutions are doing in distributed ledger technologies. For background, take a look at this recent … Continue reading
Recordkeeping Roundcasts Episode 1: Scale and complexity, with John Sheridan
Welcome to Recordkeeping Roundcasts, a series of conversations with interesting people who are doing interesting things. In this first episode the Recordkeeping Roundtable’s Cassie Findlay is talking with John Sheridan, Digital Director at The National Archives UK, about the challenges … Continue reading
Flipping our focus
This week I got a strong response on Twitter for this tweet & image: From my talk last week: we archivists are failing our mission if we keep worrying about backlogs & ignore strategic digital recordkeeping pic.twitter.com/8usLBihDz7 — Cassie Findlay (@CassPF) … Continue reading
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