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Re-Inventing On-Line Access
Chris Hurley The methods I most want to re-invent are description and federation of access. I have been interested in this for thirty years and have recently re-entered the lists with A Modest Proposal for Improving Access to Archives and … Continue reading
Contrapuntal Archival Methods
Michael Jones As a post-custodial research archivist I have worked in many contexts, from projects involving major archival institutions, governments and universities through to advising and training people working at the other end of the scale, in small archives, single … Continue reading
Building an integrated digital archives (Part II)
Richard Lehane Integration is at the heart of the archival endeavour. You can read most archival methods (appraisal, arrangement and description, access) as being fundamentally about integration: the task of creating a coherent archives that incorporates disparate recordkeeping systems. Sue … Continue reading
Records management for scientific data
Charlotte Maday and Magalie Moysan “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”(Hamlet, William Shakespeare) Venturing into research and science, for a records manager, is like walking in a very grumpy and very hungry lion’s den. Firstly because we … Continue reading
Reinventing Archival Methods: Reconceptualising ERM as a wicked problem
Julie McLeod “Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world. The power of a paradigm shift is the essential power of quantum change, whether that shift is an instantaneous or a slow and deliberate … Continue reading
In an interconnected world – why do we think in functions?
Adelaide Parr I work in the University sector at a great, sprawling institution, with its own quirks, needs, concerns and issues. With occasionally minor reference to the rest of the world, it keeps on going, outwardly little different now from … Continue reading
People Telling Stories
Sonya Sherman “There are stories that take seven days to tell… there are other stories that take you all your life… The truth about stories is that that’s all we are. ~ Thomas King[1] In the late 1980s and early … Continue reading
Full docs or it didn’t happen
Cassie Findlay In the issues paper ‘Access’, developed after The Recordkeeping Roundtable workshop ‘Reinventing Archival Methods’[2], Roundtable co-founder Barbara Reed described the information and technology landscape that we live in as characterised by ‘the ‘release’ of public information all over … Continue reading
Contexts, connections, access: the glorious possibilities of getting it all wrong
Dr Tim Sherratt About a century ago in web years I wrote a thing about accessing archives on the web.[1] It’s now full of broken links and naive optimism. But a couple of the arguments I made way back then … Continue reading
Recordkeeping Roundtable 