Engaging with Records and Archives - Histories and theories

List of contents

Introduction - Fiorella Foscarini, Heather Macneil, Bonnie Mak, and Gillian OliverPART 1: RETHINKING HISTORIES AND THEORIES 1. Moving the Margins to the Middle: Reconciling ‘the Archive’ with the Archives - Jeannette Bastian 2. Organisms, Skeletons, and the Archivist as Paleontologist: Metaphors of Archival Order and Reconstruction in Context - Juan Ilerbaig 3. 'Records in Context' in Context: A Brief History of Data Modeling for Archival Description - Jonathan Furner 4. Mapping Archival Silence: Technology and the Historical Record - Marlene Manoff 5. Hidden Voices in the Archives: Pioneering Women Archivists in Early 20th Century England - Elizabeth ShepherdPART 2: ENGAGING RECORDS AND ARCHIVES 6. The Use and Reuse of Documents by Chancellors, Archivists and Government Members in an Early Modern Republican State: Genoa’s Giunta dei Confini and Its Archives - Stefano Gardini 7. The Bumpy Road to Transparency: Access and Secrecy in 19th-Century Records in the Dutch East Indies - Charles Jeurgens 8. Archival Ethics and Indigenous Justice: Conflict or Coexistence? - Melanie Delva and Melissa Adams 9. History and Development of Information and Recordkeeping in Malawi - Paul Lihoma 10. History of Community Archiving in Poland - Magdalena Wiśniewska 11. Reflecting on Practice: Artists’ Experiences in the Archives - Sian Vaughan

Summary

This new book provides an authoritative and inspiring response to today’s growing fascination with the idea of the archive and contains cutting-edge research articles on the history and theory of archives and records, written by internationally renowned and emerging scholars.

Product details

• Assisted by: Fiorella Foscarini (Editor), Fiorella (Associate Professor Foscarini (Editor), Foscarini Fiorella (Editor), Heather MacNeil (Editor), Heather (Professor MacNeil (Editor), MacNeil Heather (Editor), Bonnie Mak (Editor), Bonnie (Associate Professor Mak (Editor), Mak Bonnie (Editor), Gillian Oliver (Editor), Gillian (Associate Professor Oliver (Editor), Oliver Gillian (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2016
• EAN: 9781783301584
• ISBN: 978-1-78330-158-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 172 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Archiving, preservation & digitisation, Archiving, preservation and digitization