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)
#PARBICA21
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Notes frustration of researchers who discover a large amount of material and have no way of adding that back into the archive to help others. [I think this is a hugely common feeling and providing ways for researchers to add data is something all archives grapple with] #OTA2024
Talking about need to redescribe records - hide harmful terms, contextualise, add inclusive terms, be participatory #OTA2024
‘Description is a tool for making records accessible and should be person centred and user-driven’ #OTA2024
Now hearing from Elliot Freeman talking about their research into researching queer people in archives and how descriptive metadata is either lacking, euphemistic or derogatory #OTA2024
I’m cross posting to Bluesky (@jheazlewood.bluesky.social) and Mastodon (@jheazlewood@mastodon.social) #OTA2024
Complexity of records is ongoing frustration as well as some legislative impediments (around privacy). Has been noted in multiple reports going back to Bringing Them Home #OTA2024
Complexity of records is ongoing frustration as well as some legislative impediments (around privacy). Has been noted in multiple reports going back to Bringing Them Home #OTA2024
For child migrants need information about arrival in Aus to find information bc records are arranged by arrival. former child migrant may not know #OTA2024
Records are variable and include correspondence, census records, registers (wards), case files from the welfare branch #OTA2024
Problems with finding records: where records held, lack of names in descriptive metadata. Have to use specially created indexes which list names, places. Still have to look at the actual records bc index only points to records #OTA2024
Requests come via another govt dept (NIAA). Records come from Cth and from records from the governance of Australian territories #OTA2024
Schemes cover stolen gens, former child migrants and forgotten Australians #OTA2024
Attending a session about how Nat Archives Aust records are used in redress schemes like those est after RC into institutional responses to child sexual abuse #OTA2024
Back at the ASA/ARANZ/PARBICA joint conference #OTA2024
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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This year’s Loris Williams lecture is Toi Tū He Whakaputanga! Toi Tū te Tiriti! By Hinerangi Himiona (Ngāpuhi nui tonu) #OTA2024
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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Opening the collection up to modern practitioners- using them as experts - acknowledging that it’s not the items being archived but the cultural practice #OTA2024
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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