Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2022.2045918
Adrian Brown
scientist and institutional science as an exchange with real consequence. Hetland identifies individual and collective motivations of amateurs and volunteers and reflects on how reciprocity may be operationalized in future designs for Citizen Science platforms. In Deductions Palmyre Pierroux reflects on the key insights from each contribution in the volume and gathers findings that cut across different disciplines and research methods, offering valuable insights about the evolution of participatory methods in museums, archives, and cultural heritage institutions. More importantly, Pierroux highlights how participatory modes intersect with research and practices in Citizen Sciences and Citizen Humanities. This book is an important and valuable contribution to the subject of participatory approaches in museums and archives. As well as offering a historical overview of the subject matter over the past few decades, it raises many relevant and timely questions about such approaches and strategies, at a crucial time when many heritage institutions are evaluating their own missions and values, and the role of citizens in shaping those in more meaningful ways beyond taking part in established outreach and community engagement programmes.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2022.2045920
J. Lowry
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2022.2050193
Kirsty Fife
The Social Movement Archive is a collection of interviews and reproductions of political ephemera from American social movements compiled by information workers and volunteers at the Interference Archive Jen Hoyer and Nora Almeida. The book aims to disrupt both the ‘formal limitations of a book’ and ‘the tensions the archive produces’ within activism (1). This text joins an extensive body of publications which challenge the colonial foundations on which traditions of professional practice are built and imagines/surfaces alternative forms of archival practice within communities. However, the authors make an original contribution to this body of literature precisely by resisting the academicization of this work. As the authors write,
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Pub Date : 2021-12-20DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2021.2012441
R. Ohene-Asah
ABSTRACT Current discourse on restitution and repatriation of Africa’s cultural heritage from Europe often eschews the large quantum of audio-visual materials kept in European archives. However, nation state sovereignty issues and concerns over easy access to film archives have attracted some level of scholarly attention, especially focussing on questions of ownership and its ramifications. From a historical perspective, this article draws attention to storage and preservation practices of Ghana’s audio-visual archives and suggests that current practices impede greatly on public access to film materials. Emphasis is placed on post- independent Ghanaian films, produced by the Ghana Film Industry Corporation and currently stored with a UK laboratory. rely on data from correspondence between the government of Ghana and storage organizations as well as interviews with key actors within the Ghana film industry to posit that in spite of debates in favour of digitization as the solution to access, the technology must be adopted cautiously where issues of ownership, copyright and the place of the tangible materials take centre stage beyond the digitization process for a sustainable access to Ghana’s archived audio-visual materials.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2021.2001319
Liam Maloney, J. Schofield
ABSTRACT This paper uses four vinyl record collections to identify and infer the praxis of DJs and the evidential value of their sonic archives. The work positions the DJs’ vinyl records as a document of dance music culture while defining the DJ as the arbiter and transmitter of that record. The work adopts an archaeological perspective, questioning how to understand a DJ’s praxis from the material culture of their vinyl records, viewing these records as artefacts which together form an assemblage warranting ‘excavation,’ analysis and curation. A framework of evidence is proposed and applied to the four vinyl collections, focusing on what can be learnt from such close archaeological scrutiny. The work concludes with a discussion of themes suggested by the analysis and proposes a proactive approach to planning for the preservation of DJ archives.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2021.2002137
Stanley H. Griffin, Scott Timcke
ABSTRACT This paper compares and contrasts the relative successes and failures in Jamaican and South African national archival systems. It does so to provide international perspectives on Britain’s colonial legacy on archives. Although local differences greatly matter, Jamaica and South Africa have histories of extended British settler-colonialism which encoded white supremacy in social relations, bureaucracies, and social epistemology which in turn shaped ‘institutional gaze’ that guided the appraisal of collections, preservation efforts and state-recording keeping practices. Archivists in these societies are acutely aware of these problems, and so the paper examines how they have addressed questions around racism and redress to try adequately ‘unsilence the past.’ Through comparison we identify what practices have been useful in generating new narratives of belonging, value, and dignity. And finally, we assess which kinds of archival thought can cross-pollinate between Jamaica and South Africa to develop more equitable democratic spaces that can instantiate what this paper calls the hospitality of archival difference. The paper ends by arguing that thought and practice heeding this principle may be conducive to ‘ground up’ approaches to issues of memory, education, and research.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2023.2166472
Louis Ray
books in Norway and Sweden. Gullick presents his conclusions on the place of origin of the fragments, developed through close inspection of their content and appearance. The work is a fitting end to a fine collection, demonstrating what can be learned through careful study of surviving evidence but also highlighting future avenues of research. The volume is particularly well illustrated with many good quality colour reproductions, including some fascinating examples of multispectral imaging. The usual scholarly apparatus is also present, such as a particularly useful index of manuscripts. The authors of the essays are often required to draw conclusions and develop narratives from fragmentary evidence. This sometimes requires them to utilize very detailed analysis of, for example, scribal hands, orthography, and the measurements of written areas. A very minor criticism of some of the essays is that they contain a lot of technical information which some general readers may find off-putting. In such cases, the length of the essays – all between 10 and 22 pages long – means that they end just as interesting wider discussions are developing. However, this criticism is so small as to be insignificant. The title of this volume is deceptively simple in its suggested scope. Through careful investigations, it looks past the manuscripts to reveal much about life in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and beyond.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2021.1985443
Miriam Buncombe, J. Prest
ABSTRACT This article outlines a pilot project aimed at making ‘slave ownership’ more visible in archival catalogues. The project began with the premise that it is incumbent upon academic communities and record-keepers to make known Britain’s slaving past and the ongoing legacies of that past as part of a drive to dismantle systemic (and often invisible) racism across the sector. Specifically, it explored different ways of cross-referencing the Legacies of British Slave-ownership database (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs//) with the Special Collections catalogue at the University of St Andrews with a view to updating the information provided in the latter. Six methods of identifying matches were trialled, each of which is presented and reflected upon here. Although some methods produced more matches than others, the collective results point towards the need for a multifaceted approach. Our findings also raise important questions about types of involvement in enslavement (direct/indirect), how different levels of certainty regarding the identity of certain individuals might be indicated in the record, and how collection-level and item-level descriptions might be updated. The project also highlights how our own assumptions about who is — and is not — likely to have ‘owned’ enslaved people can influence our very methods for uncovering those people.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2021.1998767
Zoë Reid
{"title":"Book conservation and digitization: the challenges of dialogue and collaboration","authors":"Zoë Reid","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2021.1998767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2021.1998767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"42 1","pages":"329 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46172437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2021.1995344
Heidi McIntosh
{"title":"Using Twitter to build communities: a primer for libraries, archives, and museums","authors":"Heidi McIntosh","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2021.1995344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2021.1995344","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"42 1","pages":"332 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46475502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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