Dedication
Figures
About this book
Chapter 1: Traces: Document, record, archive, archives
Chapter 2: Archival institutions
Archives and human impulses: The institutionalization and
pluralization of the record
Institutional form and function since the dawn of time
The French Revolution and the nineteenth century
Archival institutions in twentieth-century post-colonial
societies
Archival institutions in North America
Public records institutions in Australia
The collecting tradition in Australia
Business archives in Australia
Educational and religious archives in Australia
Archives as a place and virtual archives
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Professing archives: A very human enterprise
Understanding professions and professionalization
Building a profession: The journey so far
Recordkeeping heritage: Major strands of practice
Traditional roles and relationships
Electronic revolution: Catalyst for integration
Reinvented global professional mission
Towards a reinvented professional
Professional associations
Professional knowledge and education
Looking to the future
Chapter 4: Documents
We live in a web of documents
Concept of genre
Document analysis: The near and far, the side by side
Documents and records as evidence
Documents, information objects and metadata
Document computing
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Records
Introduction
Records and documents
Reliable records and records as contingent objects
Situating the document in records systems
Case study: Registry systems
Metadata
Access
Appraisal
Conclusion: Records as static objects or dynamic objects
Chapter 6: The archive
Introduction
Notion of an archive
Archive in context: Organizations and business activities
Needs of organizations
Archive in changing organizational structures
Administrative traditions and practices
Record-creating entity and records management policies
Relationship between organization and recordkeeping system
Individuals and families
Perspectives on the archive and the process of archiving
Identity of an archive: Boundaries and meaning
Concluding remarks
Chapter 7: The archives
Archival systems, frameworks and scalability
Trusted systems and pluralization
Description
Appraisal
Preservation
Frameworks for public access
Archival systems of the future
Conclusion
Chapter 8: The records continuum
Introduction: The storage of activity-based information
Spacetime distancing and information management processes
Spacetime distancing and the expanding universe
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Recordkeeping and accountability
Accountability of whom, for what, to whom?
Recordkeepers as agents of accountability: What is their role?
Recordkeepers as agents of accountability: Can they be trusted?
Chapter 10: Recordkeeping and juridical governance
Introduction
Archival science, recordkeeping, law and the state
Recordkeeping and juridical systems
Records, social relationships and legal systems
Archives and modern government
Ethics of recordkeeping
Archives within globalized networked communities
Conclusion
Chapter 11: Recordkeeping and societal power
Power
Records and archives
Surveillance
The archiving gaze
Capturing people
Controlling memories
Human rights
Refiguring archives
The power of memories
Records have power
Subjects of the record
Archivists have power
Conclusion
Chapter 12: Archives and memory
Archives and memory: An undoubted connection
Overstating the connection
A broader and more qualified articulation
The qualifications in practice
Forgetting and the absence of archives
Conclusion
About the next book
Notes on contributors
Index
Sue McKemmish is Chair of Archival Systems, Director of the Centre
for Organisational and Social Informatics, and Associate Dean
Research of the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash
University, Australia.
Michael Piggott is a consultant and independent scholar based in
Australia.
Barbara Reed is Senior Lecturer in Recordkeeping in the Department
of Librarianship, Archives and Records at Monash University,
Australia.
Frank Upward is Principal Researcher in the Centre for
Organisational and Social Informatics at Monash University,
Australia.
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