Tag Archives: metadata

So-called ‘Metadata’

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Cassie Findlay

Metadata took centre stage in the national debate this week, in the context of the Government’s data retention proposals and as a result of George Brandis’s spectacular fail when attempting to explain what exactly he meant by metadata on Sky … 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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Metadata: a contestable concept?

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Cassie Findlay

Presentation by Barbara Reed for ‘Paradigm Shift’, a seminar in honour of Hans Hofman, National Archives of the Netherlands, The Hague, January 27 2014 Firstly, thank you for the invitation to participate in this event honouring the work of our … Continue reading →

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Reinventing Archival Methods: Report and what’s next?

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Cassie Findlay

On November 29 and 30 the Recordkeeping Roundtable, in partnership with the Australian Society of Archivists, held a two day workshop in Sydney; ‘Reinventing Archival Methods. Attended by almost 70 people from around Australia and even a couple of visitors … Continue reading →

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Reflections on digital recordkeeping and the Australian Series System

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

By Anne Picot Prompted by reading Kate Cumming’s posting after our inspiring seminar on the Australian series system I would like to offer some reflections which have occurred since then. At the seminar I provided some contextual footnotes to the … Continue reading →

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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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