Tag Archives: digitisation

Reinventing access

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Cassie Findlay

Barbara Reed In 1989 David Bearman threw virtual bombs at the practices of the archival profession. In Australia we responded to the emerging issues of digital recordkeeping influenced by Bearman’s challenging analysis. However access has long been an area somewhat … Continue reading →

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Digitizing the modern archive

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Cassie Findlay

Dr Katrina Dean In 1979 French sociologist Jean Paul Lyotard predicted ‘that anything in the constituted body of knowledge that is not translatable’ into computer readable packages of information ‘will be abandoned and that the direction of new research will … Continue reading →

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