Pub Date : 2019-08-11DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1640753
J. Winters, A. Prescott
ABSTRACT Contemporary approaches to the investigation of digital resources are dominated by the paradigm of free-form natural language search, popularised by Google. The Google form of searching has shaped our view of digital possibilities and profoundly affects our search and research habits. Yet in early pioneering work which led to the digital revolution of the 1990s, search was not a major consideration and there was a stronger emphasis on linking files. With the rise of very large born-digital resources such as e-mail archives, Wikileak dumps and web archives, the limitations of Google-type searching are becoming more evident. This paper reviews the limitations of search in exploring born-digital archives and starts to sketch out possible approaches to an alternative. It is suggested that a return to digital roots, by renewing the interest of pioneers such as Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson in the linking of files, may provide one approach to born-digital archives.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-11DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1631863
Kevin Molloy
ABSTRACT In considering what constitutes the ideal born-digital literary archive and what interventions are possible, or even necessary, from a collecting institution in determining the make-up and future accessibility of these archives, this article examines, through a set of case studies, the collections and creative methodologies of four Australian writers – Peter Carey, Sonya Hartnett, Alex Miller and Ouyang Yu. The article considers how these writers have negotiated with, and managed, their creative output in the digital space, and how, as a collecting institution, State Library Victoria has responded to their respective requirements of the medium and expectations for how a major institution will deal with their digital collections. Finally, the article examines what practical technologies are necessary to provide a secure digital repository while facilitating access and the delivery of born-digital literary content to the user, both now and into the future.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-30DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1621184
L. Gibbons
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1611067
Viviane Frings‐Hessami
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Viviane Frings‐Hessami","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2019.1611067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2019.1611067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2019.1611067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48720159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1600135
Antonina Lewis
{"title":"The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy","authors":"Antonina Lewis","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2019.1600135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2019.1600135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2019.1600135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46196637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-04-25DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1584860
L. Gibbons
ABSTRACT The Community Heritage Grant Program (CHG) run by the National Library of Australia is an institution in the Australian cultural heritage landscape, providing foundational support to many small organisations who work in community memory-making. In this paper, the author presents the findings of her research into who and what is being funded by the CHG Program, and what the program highlights about community memory-making needs. Drawing from 23 years of public data, this research raises questions about the CHG Program model and its validity and purpose in a changing social and technological environment. Ultimately, the lesson from this study is that more research is required to identify and better understand Australian perspectives of community archives and memory-making.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-25DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1593588
C. Robinson
Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia is a fascinating biography of commercial photographer Ernest Lund Mitchell, intertwined with a detailed examination of how his photographs, particularly of Western Australia and Queensland, were used to promote Australia to the Empire. The work is based on author Joanna Sassoon’s PhD thesis and journal articles. Joanna Sassoon has extensive experience and knowledge in managing archival photographic collections and is an internationally respected historian and archivist. She brings both a historian’s perspective and an archivist’s focus on context to her examination of E.L. Mitchell’s photographs. The work features extensive reproductions of the photographs under discussion, which allows the reader to appreciate the knowledge and analysis that Sassoon brings to bear on her analysis. Sassoon considers: the content of the photographs; their role in creating a sense of ‘social harmony, economic stability and Australia’s connections to the British Empire’ (p. viii); how they were circulated and made accessible; and finally how their ‘archival afterlives’ are influencing views of twentieth-century Australia (p. ix). Agents of Empire is divided into three parts:
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Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1596822
Alison Wishart, M. Carney
ABSTRACT To commemorate its centenary, the NSW Division of the Australian Red Cross decided to donate its archive to the State Library of New South Wales in 2014. The State Library is honoured to be the recipient of these significant and extensive archives. In this article, the authors outline the process the librarians and archivists used to manage the donation and the importance of communication, both internally within the Library, and externally with the volunteers at the Red Cross who had arranged, compiled and cared for the archive. They describe the extent and organisation of the collection, the variety of formats and subjects, its historical significance and how it has been promoted to the State Library’s audiences. The authors reflect on how the archive charts the evolution and growth of Australia’s longest-running humanitarian organisation and how it contains the records of people who made history, but did not write the history books.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1585266
C. R. Pennell
ABSTRACT This paper examines the differences between archived material that was always a digital record and hard-copy archives that were subsequently digitised. It considers the rationales behind the digitisation of archives in established western democracies as digitised collections and ad-hoc files are made available online. It compares this with how the archives of regimes in the Middle East and North Africa that collapsed between 1990 and 2011 were digitised. Overt political expediency determined the circumstances under which documents were released and recalled from public view. It examines the digitisation of archival material after the wars in Iraq in 1991 and 2003 and its political implications . Then it examines material that has always been digital: the record of social media exchanges on the day when Colonel Qaddafi was killed in Libya in October 2011 and how the archived digital form reflects the origins and purposes under which it was produced. In both cases the electronic format is not simply a question of ease of distribution, both have become a record because they were assembled for particular purposes. Like ‘traditional’ archived documents, they were never intended to satisfy the needs of later historians but they became a source by being brought together.
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Pub Date : 2019-03-31DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1573211
Lachlan Glanville
Editors Daniel Marshall, Kevin P Murphy and Zeb Tortorici’s introduction to Queering Archives: Historical Unravellings posits that ‘in a catalog of queer archives you can find not only a listing of...
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