Invitation to #PARBICA2025, which will most likely be in Fiji.

(Me: SEAPAVAA is in talks with PARBICA to hold a joint conference in September 2025. Watch this space. #SEAPAVAA2025)

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Important work. People enjoyed being together, doing it together.

10 years of this. 7000 place names, all through the south island. Fully referenced.

The Ngāi Tahu Atlas kahurumanu.co.nz/cultural-mapping-story/t...

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Q: What can we do?
A: Look at the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration (2019). Recommendation and action we can do.

www.naa.gov.au/about-us/partnerships/in...

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Q: Dream of future archives?
A: My dream is just like what my ancestors dream about in He Whakaputanga. New people new ideas new technology come together. Never expected we would be compromised this way. Dream about us become independent.

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Dan Eady: Unruly doesn't mean difficult, it should be seen as call to answer. Challenges are worth the work. Towards a more 'ruly' future.

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Challenges in designing the intellectual entity. How to include both hardware and software. Include software as each artist use software idiosyncratic way.

#DigiPres
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Org with dedicated resources (later stage) list legal and rights issues as main challenges.

Talk to Chris about video game preservation.
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First up Thea, IP rights coordinator, NMA. EV Llewellyn collection, copy of Stradivari cello, viola, violin by Arthur E Smith. Not static. Still used to perform. Contextual assets - recordings, research notes. Unruly - missing information and findability.

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S/o to Jaye Weatherburn and her on-ongoing work on Born Digital classification. Inspired by V&A Born Digital, Born Slippery presentation www.vam.ac.uk/research/projects/preser...

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"...the performative cannot be boxed and shelved in paper-ideal storage conditions"

Hear hear!

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"The future of archival access is really about meaning and giving meanings."
Byproduct of human activities come in many forms.

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Opening the archives focusing on "Archives as Houses" and "Records as items" can be seen as Eurocentric. Other elements on the Wheel of Memory have been considered archival by non-writing cultures for generations.

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Using Rastafari community as an example, Dr Stanley elaborated that there's a disconnect between popular community memory and documents archived by authorities, often colonial.

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Opening keynote "Opening Society to its Archives" by Dr Stanley Griffin, CARBICA, The University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica Campus.

"Are we providing access to building, materials, or meanings?"

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Richard Foy, ARANZ president, former Chief Archivist of Archives New Zealand, welcome us all to #OpeningTheArchives2024 at Ōtautahi/Christchurch. The last time we gathered was 2019 in Adelaide.

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Another week, another conference. This week I'm at #OpeningTheArchives2024, ASA/ARANZ/PARBICA joint conference at Ōtautahi/Christchurch, New Zealand.

Conference website: ausarchivists.eventsair.com/opening-the-archives-acc...

Photo: Wellington from above.
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