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Tom Nesmith - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The concept of societal provenance and records of nineteenth-century Aboriginal–European relations in Western Canada: implications for Archival Theory and practice
    Archival Science, 2007
    Co-Authors: Tom Nesmith
    Abstract:

    Increasing interest amongst archivists in the history of records and archives leads to questions about how this historical knowledge may affect Archival Theory and practice. This article discusses its effect on the concept of provenance by suggesting that it indicates that records have what might be called a societal provenance. The article discusses some of the principal features of societal provenance and some implications for Archival Theory and practice of this concept. The article provides examples of the place of societal provenance in understanding Aboriginal-Euro-Canadian records by using the 1802–1803 birchbark journal of fur trader Jean Steinbruck, which has a provenance in fur trade society in northwestern Canada, and photographs from the late nineteeth century, which reflect a provenance in the new agrarian and urban society that ended fur trade society in the Canadian West.

  • the concept of societal provenance and records of nineteenth century aboriginal european relations in western canada implications for Archival Theory and practice
    Archival Science, 2007
    Co-Authors: Tom Nesmith
    Abstract:

    Increasing interest amongst archivists in the history of records and archives leads to questions about how this historical knowledge may affect Archival Theory and practice. This article discusses its effect on the concept of provenance by suggesting that it indicates that records have what might be called a societal provenance. The article discusses some of the principal features of societal provenance and some implications for Archival Theory and practice of this concept. The article provides examples of the place of societal provenance in understanding Aboriginal-Euro-Canadian records by using the 1802–1803 birchbark journal of fur trader Jean Steinbruck, which has a provenance in fur trade society in northwestern Canada, and photographs from the late nineteeth century, which reflect a provenance in the new agrarian and urban society that ended fur trade society in the Canadian West.

  • Reopening Archives: Bringing New Contextualities into Archival Theory and Practice
    Archivaria, 2006
    Co-Authors: Tom Nesmith
    Abstract:

    The opening of an archives is often an exciting occasion when access is gained to once inaccessible or previously unknown records. Archives today, though, are being reopened through growing interest in the history of records and archives. Approaches to this history have taken some radically new directions, influenced by postmodern insights. The profound implications for Archival work of these new directions are still in conceptual infancy. This article offers an overview of this reopening of archives by outlining how Archival ideas and work might be reconceptualized in light of these changing perspectives on the history of records and archives.RESUME La relecture du passe est souvent une occasion excitante lorsqu’on donne ainsi acces a des documents qui etaient auparavant inaccessibles et inconnus. Le passe est aujourd’hui relu a cause d’un interet grandissant pour l’histoire des documents eux-memes. Influencees par les perspicacites post-modernes, les approches a cette forme d’histoire ont pris radicalement de nouvelles directions dont les implications profondes sur le travail archivistique sont encore aux premiers balbutiements. Cet article offre un survol de la relecture du passe en exposant comment les idees et le travail archivistique doivent etre re-conceptualises a la lumiere des perspectives changeantes de l’histoire des archives.

Holger Pötzsch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Luciana Duranti - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Impact of Digital Technology on Archival Science.
    Archival Science, 2001
    Co-Authors: Luciana Duranti
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    Archival science is to be regarded as a system. The properties of that system can be investigated and integrated. The methodology to do so has been tested in two research projects which are presented in this article as examples of the way in which the view of Archival science as a system supports the development of new knowledge and as a demonstration of the stability of Archival Theory.

  • The concept of appraisal and Archival Theory
    The American Archivist, 1994
    Co-Authors: Luciana Duranti
    Abstract:

    In the last decade, appraisal has become one of the central topics of Archival literature. However, the approach to appraisal issues has been primarily methodological and practical. This article discusses the theoretical implications of appraisal as attribution of value to archives, and it bases its argument on the nature of Archival material as defined by traditional Archival Theory.

  • The Archival body of knowledge: Archival Theory, method, and practice, and graduate and continuing education
    Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1993
    Co-Authors: Luciana Duranti
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    Arguing from the perspective of both European and North American Archival education, the author develops a case for the need to build a solid graduate curriculum that integrates Theory, methodology, and practice. American archivists are criticized for the manner in which they have discussed educational issues, and the development of full-fledged master's degree programs in Archival studies, similar to those developed in Canada and endorsed by the Association of Canadian Archivists, is supported

Jennifer Douglas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • From the sidelines to the center: reconsidering the potential of the personal in archives
    Archival Science, 2018
    Co-Authors: Jennifer Douglas, Allison Mills
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    This article seeks to center the personal in archives, both theoretically and methodologically. After briefly reviewing how personal archives have been sidelined in Archival Theory and education programs, we suggest that whether a record is considered personal or not is best determined not based on who created it but rather on how it is activated. In two separate autoethnographic case studies, the authors activate institutional records that, for each of them, are intensely personal. In doing so, they demonstrate how centering the personal in this way might inform and impact archivists’ understanding of their responsibilities to those who create, are captured in and consult the records in our care.

  • A call to rethink Archival creation: exploring types of creation in personal archives
    Archival Science, 2018
    Co-Authors: Jennifer Douglas
    Abstract:

    The concept of creatorship is central to Archival Theory, as evidenced in Archival description, which focuses on the relation of the material described to a single, named creator. Despite its centrality to the discipline and profession, the concept of Archival creation is under-theorized and oversimplified. This article builds on recent discussion in the Archival discipline regarding the need to expand the principle of provenance by exploring methods of Archival creation in the archives of Canadian and American writers. It argues for a broader understanding of the types of agents and processes that create an archive over time and suggests that despite being centered on the concept of creation, the Archival discipline has only begun to scratch the surface of the possibilities contained in it.

Patrick Manning - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Archiving the Rust Belt: Investigating Rust Belt Narratives of American Exceptionalism through Buffalo’s Downtown Department Store
    Canadian Review of American Studies, 2015
    Co-Authors: Patrick Manning
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    In this article, Buffalo’s now defunct flagship department store Adam, Meldrum & Anderson is discussed as a synecdoche for broader concerns facing the Rust Belt region, including gentrification, de-industrialization, urban renewal, and systemic inequality. Through an intersection of Archival Theory and the discourses of American exceptionalism, it is argued that the Rust Belt’s economic downfalls have been recreated as capitalist opportunities, a process that obfuscates economic inequality. To demonstrate the disruptive potential of the archive, an archived photograph is analysed alongside Dennis Maher’s reimagining of Buffalo’s cityscape. Ultimately, these alternative imaginings work toward a more equitable Rust Belt landscape.