Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2018.1560834
Rebe Taylor
Tasmanian history, and Tasmanian Aboriginal history in particular, has a uniquely long and unbroken tradition of research and writing. Historians began to reflect on Tasmania’s frontier war even as it drew to a close in the 1830s and they have continued ever since. The topic has stirred intense debate and more than half a dozen new publications since the turn of this century. Stevens, an established writer of fiction, has thus chosen for her first book of history a much-studied subject. But she has nonetheless found an area of Tasmanian Aboriginal history that has received less attention. Me Write Myself recounts the years immediately after Tasmania’s frontier wars, from 1832–48, when almost all the Tasmanian Aborigines were living in exile in the Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. Moreover, Stevens turns her focus to a largely overlooked set of records, the texts written by the exiles: the regular contributions they wrote to the Flinders Island Chronicle; their sermons, their correspondence to colonial officials and, significantly, their petitions to the Crown, seeking recognition of their rights.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1567355
Lyndon Ormond-Parker
ABSTRACT The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Australia’s archival repository for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage, is the nation’s peak body for collecting, recording, archiving and returning Indigenous-related knowledge and information. Since 1964 AIATSIS has amassed the world’s largest collection of print, audio and film materials on Australian First Nations peoples. This paper canvasses the Deadline 2025 campaign for audiovisual collections at risk and the complexities of preserving audiovisual archives. It argues that while the Plan’s institutional focus is essential, equally essential is institutional leadership in establishing integration with community-held archives, supported by appropriately resourced and skilled community-based partnerships.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1587809
Lyndon Ormond-Parker, A. Corn
This document sets out key issues identified in the final plenary session at the AIATSIS research symposium on information technologies and Indigenous communities. Over 70 papers were presented at ITIC on the use of information technologies by Indigenous peoples. Illustrating the strength and vibrancy of the sector, presentations were delivered on programs, projects and research being implemented and undertaken by a range of community organisations,institutions and researchers across Australia. ITIC demonstrated the growing presence of an impressive and exciting IT sector in which digital media is being used in diverse and creative ways by Indigenous Australians to support, for example, innovation, employment, training and governance, as well as the production, maintenance and transmission of culture. The sector builds on over 30 years of cultural and social capital in IT and Indigenous communities. The use of digital media was showcased in a range of programs and initiatives spanning education, language, health and wellbeing, local and national digital archiving repositories, and the burgeoning creative industries and broadcasting sectors. The symposium highlighted the ability of IT to generate unique opportunities for income generation and local enterprise development. In particular, ITIC demonstrated the key capacity of IT to engage young people, particularly in creative media, thus providing new platforms for formal and informal training to support personal and career development. Overall, the symposium revealed not only the extent and variety of services already provided through IT by Indigenous people for the communities (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous) in which they live, but also the clear benefits arising from increasing engagement with digital media and the digital economy, and the potential for future growth. IT harnesses many crucial aspects associated with the economic future of Indigenous communities across the country.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2018.1540307
E. Maidment, F. Blackburn
ABSTRACT The Aurukun archives held at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies were initially developed in accordance with a ‘before it is too late’ model. In response to national controversy over proposed bauxite mining on Wik land, the Institute reorientated its documentation strategy towards collaborating with the Aurukun community. Wik people were not so much the subjects of the archive, but collaborators in its production. The outcome was an extensive multimedia archive which underpinned the Wik native title claim in 1993. Since then the collaborative relationship between the Institute and the Wik people has lapsed. Intermittent attempts to repatriate parts of the Aurukun archives were not successful in the long term. While revising controls over key Aurukun record groups, current Institute staff became aware of the extent and some of the strengths of the Aurukun archives. The staff have been attempting to revive the community’s awareness of their archives and their interest in them. Although the community’s interests presently have a different focus, revived collaboration between the Institute and the Aurukun community could result in some form of distributed custody and control of the Aurukun archives which may be of value to Wik society.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2018.1551144
H. Goodall, Heidi Norman, Belinda Russon
ABSTRACT The authors reflect on the methodology of using digital tools to learn about the experiences of Indigenous people enrolled from 1980 to 2000 as adult students at Tranby, an Indigenous-controlled post-secondary college. This collaboration between Tranby and the University of Technology Sydney drew on debates in post-colonial studies, oral history and archival studies. The authors found that participants prioritised personal control in all social media communication and engaged most actively in person-to-person communication to take part in this research. Participants were eager to share memories of student experiences but they have preferred to contribute to online publications which focused on activities, rather than on individuals. To support participants’ desire for control over digital communication, the authors slowed the pace of online outcome development to allow flexible and ongoing consent arrangements along with non-custodial approaches to oral, archival, photographic and material collections.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-28DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2018.1502088
Gregory Rolan, G. Humphries, Lisa Jeffrey, Evanthia Samaras, Tatiana Antsoupova, K. Stuart
ABSTRACT Not a day appears to go by without breaking news of some Artificial Intelligence (AI) advance that seemingly has the potential to transform our lives. As recordkeeping professionals, we can very well ask, ‘What about us?’ Where is the AI or automation to help us with our classification, appraisal and disposal work? If we are to meet the challenges of managing records in the digital age, such technology – together with appropriate skills and knowledge – will be necessary. How can AI automate our digital recordkeeping and archive work? In this article, the authors provide a snapshot of the practice of AI in Australian recordkeeping. What is the reality versus the hype of such technology, and what is actually being done now? In answering these questions, they first provide a brief introduction into AI techniques and their characteristics in relation to recordkeeping work. They then introduce four case studies from Australian archival and government institutions that have embarked on AI initiatives. In each case, they provide an overview of the project in terms of requirements, activities to date, outcomes and futures. The article concludes with a discussion of the lessons learnt, issues and implications of AI in the archive.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1563476
Kirsten Wright
archives are effectively lost by being described in France as Chinese manuscripts (Cox, chapter 12, p. 209); interpretation of Indonesian records made difficult by unclear descriptions (Karabinos, chapter 4, p. 61); records seized and stored in warehouses lost until claims for storage costs alerted those currently responsible to their existence; or deliberate obfuscation of existence and location as with the Mau Mau records at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the UK (Banton, chapter 3). The book acts as a testimony to the long-term efforts of many within the international community – particularly those associated with earlier times in the International Council on Archives. Here the work of Kecskemeti (chapter 1) and Auer (chapter 8) are exemplars, and their work is an important part of archival history. Fascinating to me was the long duration of some of the disputes. Archival plunder by Napoleon in an attempt to create an archive of empire was only returned to Spain as late as 1976 and some of the seized Vatican records from the period are still in the Archives Nationales of France because ‘the Vatican authorities are not prepared to cover the expenses for their transport back to Rome’ (Auer, chapter 8, p. 117). In some essays personal feelings are palpable. Frustration in the case of Kecskemeti, something of disillusion in the cases of African archives in Europe as discussed by Mnjama and Lowry (chapter 7), and significant personal hardship documented in passing by Patricia Grimsted – ‘the well known “archival” spy’ (Grimsted, chapter 9, p. 133). Beyond the discussions of physical possession, the essay by Gilliland (chapter 11) takes the reader to new territory. Can we reconceptualise the ‘realities of always-in-motion diasporas of records in which multiple parties have rights, interests and diverging points of view’ (Gilliland, chapter 11, p. 180)? This essay challenges archival practice to move beyond the notions of physical, into virtual territory, and to think in post-national terms. It invites reconceptualisation of the nature of ‘displaced records’ in line with emerging archival thinking about multiple, simultaneous provenance and notions of co-creation as well as issues of human rights and social justice. The essays in this volume interact with each other, cross-referencing authors. The challenge of reconceptualising the problems have been taken up by Cox in particular, positing an archival equivalent to non-refoulment, emphasising common and joint heritage, stressing access to records, and challenging archival and legal thinking to move beyond the notion of the original in a digital world. The evidence of author interaction shows their high degree of involvement in the work, and the amassed expertise of authors is impressive. Each chapter contains a bibliography which leads interested readers to a wealth of further information on the topics and cases under discussion. An index assists access to specific topics. James Lowry is to be
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2018.1558407
B. O. Odhiambo
ABSTRACT This article seeks to assess the readiness of the United States International University-Africa (USIU-A) to manage digital archives with a view to proposing strategies to enhance digital archives management at the institution. The study was informed by the Records Continuum Model, the Open Archival Information System Model and the Digital Curation Centre Lifecycle Model. A case study was used as part of a mixed-method research approach with a sample size of 120 respondents drawn from a population of 6937 by using systematic random sampling and purposive sampling techniques. Questionnaires, interviews, observation and documentary review methods were used to collect data. Qualitative and quantitative data was presented and analysed thematically. The study revealed that the infrastructure required for digital archives management was not up to standard. Moreover, a myriad of challenges were unearthed which were found to potentially inhibit the management of digital archives. The study therefore concluded that although USIU-A had taken steps towards digital archives management, more still needed to be done for the institution to effectively manage its digital archives.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2018.1559741
Hannah Ishmael
ABSTRACT Focusing on the inter-war period, this article examines the context of the publication of Sir Hilary Jenkinson’s Manual of Archive Administration alongside the less well-known contemporary publication of Arthur Schomburg’s ‘The Negro Digs up his Past’. By placing these publications together, this article raises questions about the production and reproduction of the professional canon, as well as highlighting Schomburg’s contribution to key archival questions on the nature of collecting. This work discusses Schomburg’s articulation of the purpose of archival collecting which offers a radically different conception of the value and use of archives, one that focuses on the concepts of recovery and transformation. This article also places Schomburg within the wider emergence of the Pan-African movement and situates his work within the developing Pan-African ideologies and the networks in which he operated, and argues that Schomburg’s legacy can be found in the development of Black-led archives in London.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2018.1547653
Ellen LeClere
ABSTRACT Digital archives are a popular way for archivists to provide access to their important collections, but they also create more opportunities for private information within these collections to be disseminated widely and without consent. This is especially true of collections of the recent past, which often include materials and testimonies from living individuals. This paper draws on interview data collected from 13 archivists at four institutions that created digital archives of Civil Rights Movement-era materials. Despite clear professional obligations to protect individual privacy, the author found that archivists relied on open-access policies to justify their projects and digitisation labour itself.
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