Category Archives: Post
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
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
Archivists and journalists: It’s time to get serious
First up, thanks to Eira Tansey, whose Tweet prompted me to finally get back here and have a rant. Archivists we need to be very clear that our best professional allies in the days ahead are journalists & scientists https://t.co/VnMnYSY1Y2 … Continue reading
We need to talk about smart contracts and recordkeeping
Blockchain technology offer us a revolutionary new way to do business using the same database — a shared ledger, in effect, that is available to anyone who knows how to use it and has access to the tools. A ‘world database’ (as … Continue reading
Decentralization and DAOs: Opportunities for recordkeepers
Attending the Decentralized Web Summit at the Internet Archive wasn’t a bad way to spend my first week living in San Francisco. Big thanks to Peter Van Garderen and Courtney Mumma for encouraging me to go. It was an exciting, … Continue reading
Trust Networks and Tigers: New models for journalism and archives
Come and join us for fascinating discussion on issues fundamentally impacting the future of our profession. When: Wednesday 14 October, 5:30 – 7pm Where: Seminar Room, ATP Innovations – Ground Floor, National Innovation Centre, Australian Technology Park, Redfern (directions) Cost: … Continue reading
Rising to the challenge: Are records professionals up to the task?
Some of us Roundtablers were honoured to be speakers at a conference at Beijing’s Renmin University in early June. Keynoting at that event was distinguished archivist and Roundie friend Hans Hofman. Hans’s talk was on a subject many of us … Continue reading
Review of Preserving Complex Digital Objects
Janet Delve and David Anderson (eds), Preserving Complex Digital Objects, London, Facet, 2014. In Neil Grindley’s introduction to Preserving Complex Digital Objects he explains that it aims to set out what is currently understood about dealing with complex digital objects … Continue reading
Decentralised and inviolate: the blockchain and its uses for digital archives
By Cassie Findlay In the flow of information all around us – in businesses, governments, personal spaces, in the physical and online world, there is information that we want to fix at a point in time and give it an … Continue reading
The Invisible of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape our Identities and Our Futures
Reviewed by Cassie Findlay In the world of recordkeeping and archives we like to bandy words like ‘memory’ and ‘identity’ around quite a bit. You’ll find them in the appraisal policies of most government archives and records authorities, and in … Continue reading
Recordkeeping Roundtable 