Archival Value Research Articles

A troubling inheritance: Experimenting with problematic curricula

After generations of codifying curriculum, the Reconceptualization turned away from codified curriculum to better understand curriculum. Just as before the Reconceptualization, problematic curricula continue to proliferate creating a troubling inheritance. This paper turns to one such troubling inheritance, the problematic curriculum of Hirsch et al. (2002). Recognizing the field’s limited influence in large-scale curriculum development, this paper considers what it might mean to “accept (some) educational responsibility” for a troubling inheritance. Drawing on the concept of the anarchive, both that which is left out of archives and the surplus value of archives, this paper develops an approach to anarchival assemblage art with problematic curricula. While the field’s relationship with schools provides a source of simmering conflict within the field, this paper argues for an experimental approach to the troubling inheritance of problematic curricula, reactivating it in new events to find out what else it might do.

Nobody Wins: The inequitable certification of archival materials as cultural property by the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board

The Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board (CCPERB) was founded by the Government of Canada in 1977 to establish an idealized framework to value and certify items of significant cultural value. This research explores the CCPERB's time-consuming application process and rigid monetary appraisal criteria to demonstrate how the Board discourages the certification of archival material. Emphasizing the fair market value (FMV) of archives through sales data also places Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) creators, as well as digital records, at a disadvantage for certification. Reforming CCPERB’s processes requires an open dialogue with archival stakeholders to ensure the equitable certification of all forms of cultural property in Canada.

"The only way we knew how:" provenancial fabulation in archives of feminist materials.

Although much has been written on the archival principle of provenance and the centrality of records creation to archival practices and processes, there has been little exploration of how records creation is figured and enacted across specific archival sites and spaces. This article centers records creation in two digital archives of feminist materials: Alternative Toronto and Rise Up! Feminist Digital Archive with the aim of demonstrating records creation as an imaginative and fabulatory process of meaning-making. By decentering the notion of a singular, remarkable creator in favor of a multiplicity of creating contexts and actors, Rise Up! and Alternative Toronto enable imaginative acts of records creation that play with the spatial and temporal boundaries of records, pushing them into new, oftentimes unanticipated relationships to other records, users, and intervenors. In this article, I propose that provenancial fabulation can be characterized through four dimensions: first, it plays with contradictory records contexts putting them in conversation with one another; second, it troubles the order and organization of the past; third, it extends the temporal and spatial boundaries of historical records and accounts; and fourth, it acts infrastructurally to circulate ideas, imaginaries, narratives, and relationalities. In creating and configuring digital records according to feminist understandings of archival value and historical continuity, Alternative Toronto and Rise Up! demonstrate provenancial fabulation as a structuring force in the circulation of feminist knowledges and desires.

2021 Index IEEE Power and Energy Magazine Vol. 19

This index covers all technical items — papers, correspondence, reviews, etc. — that appeared in this periodical during 2011, and items from previous years that were commented upon or corrected in 2011. Departments and other items may also be covered if they have been judged to have archival value. The Author Index contains the primary entry for each item, listed under the first author’s name. The primary entry includes the coauthors’ names, the title of the paper or other item, and its location, specified by the publication abbreviation, year, month, and inclusive pagination. The Subject Index contains entries describing the item under all appropriate subject headings, plus the first author’s name, the publication abbreviation, month, and year, and inclusive pages. Note that the item title is found only under the primary entry in the Author Index.

Archival Values: Essays in Honor of Mark Greene. Edited by Christine Weideman and Mary A. Caldera. [Review

In his August 2008 presidential address, Society of American Archivists president Mark Greene advocated for the creation of a set of shared core values for archivists to follow. He argued that such a set of values would make the vocation more professional, more united, and, ultimately, more empowered. But can these goals be accomplished if the values are not agreed upon or if they are subject to different interpretations and meanings? This is the unstated question in Archival Values: Essays in Honor of Mark Greene, a collection of articles that examine the 11 core archival values that SAA approved in 2011 following Greene's address.

Future uncertainties for preserving tweets: Peoples’ perceptions in Japan

Social media content includes an unprecedented number of personal documents reflecting our time. Few countries or regions have established legal grounds for securing long-term access to these documents, while paper-based publications have been exhaustively accumulated under legal deposit systems. However, archiving social media through national libraries, as a sort of state intervention, could bring about chilling effects on free speech in unexpected ways. The article aims to present empirical data of public concerns concerning social media content, focusing on Twitter’s public tweets archived by third parties, through two questionnaire surveys involving university students (Research I) and the public (Research II). The surveys were designed based on three settings: researchers, organisations to which the respondents belong and the National Diet Library in Japan. Consequently, approximately 30% and 47% of the respondents in Research I ( n = 197) and II ( n = 728), respectively, disagreed with any hypothetical scenario. An ordered logistic analysis to reveal the inter-relations of variables suggests the existence of other factors; thus, neither variables related to Twitter/Internet use nor demographic variables influenced people’s perceptions of the archival issue. While protecting privacy rights and copyrights was the primary reason for disagreements regarding third-party archival of tweets, many respondents intuitively displayed a negative reaction without any specific reason. Those who question its value and feel uncomfortable with an authoritative intervention were also identified. To nurture acceptant attitudes, advocating the archival of personal documents and adopting more restrictive archival procedures like taking down posts and anonymisation, public debates on the intervention of public bodies and demonstration of archival values should be considered.

Asked and Answered: On Qualities and Quantities of Answers in Online Q&A Sites

This paper builds upon several recent research efforts that have explored the nature and qualities of questions asked on these social Q&A sites by offering a focused examination of answers posted to three of the most popular Q&A sites. Specifically, this paper examines sets of answers responding to specific types of questions and explores the degree to which question types are predictive of answer quantity and answer quality. Blending qualitative and quantitative methods, the paper builds upon rich coding of a representative sets of real questions — drawn from Answerbag, (Ask) MetaFilter, and Yahoo! Answers — in order to better understand whether the explicit and implicit theories and predictions drawn from coding of these questions were borne out in the corresponding answer sets found on these sites. Quantitative findings include data underscoring the general overall success of social Q&A sites in producing answers that can satisfy the needs of those who pose questions. Additionally, this paper presents a predictive model that can anticipate the archival value of answers based on the category and qualities of questions asked. Qualitative findings include an analysis of the variation in responses to questions that are primarily seeking objective, grounded information relative to those seeking subjective opinions.

Analysis of the Gearbox Oil Maintenance Procedures in Wind Energy II

Recent works have addressed the analysis of some situations that alter the gearbox oil results in wind energy conversion systems (WECS). This work contributes by completing the analysis of additional situations, based on key operational data collected from 10 different multi-megawatt wind turbines at two different locations with two top-tier technologies, and has demonstrated that the oil analysis results can be altered in practice. As important as detecting these situations is to verify how the data collected by the different operators and transferred to the laboratories, this relevant information is not included in most cases. The issues that can stem from this lack of valuable data can be mitigated with a new and more complete template. This paper proposes a detailed template that is ready for an industrial use and contributes to standardizing the information handled by all actors. The suggested template, which is designed based on extensive experimental results and an in-depth analysis, provides detailed information for laboratories to improve conclusions, recommendations and action plans. The investigation provides a high archival value for researchers whose investigation deals with gearbox oil maintenance. Furthermore, the global impact of the proposal on the wind industry can be very relevant in terms of benefits and it will ultimately be an advance in the evolution of the operation and maintenance of wind farms.

PENERAPAN PEMBERKASAN MENGGUNAKAN APLIKASI BANK INDONESIA RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (BI-RMS) PADA DIVISI ARSIP BANK INDONESIA

This observation aims to find out how process Application of Filling Using the Application Bank Indonesia Records Management System (BI-RMS) on Divisi Arsip Bank Indonesia. The background to problem that prompted the author to make observations about filling was considering the use value and function of archives that are so important for organizing life so the need for good archive management by following the dynamics of technological developments that occur in the community. From observation made in Divisi Arsip Bank Indonesia archive management activities including the filling activities, have taken advantage of technology. As a tool for processing, accessing and disseminating and preserving archives. Application of Filling Using the Application Bank Indonesia Records Management System consists of file collection activities, rapid, input and validation, printing of label and list of file contents. And file storage in storage media.

MANAGEMENT OF GOVERNMENT ARCHIVES IN ITALY

The article deals with the management system of state archives in modern Italy. Research has proven the value of archives among other cultural sites, as archives are an important part of national identity. In practice, effective public administration and effective administration is the lifeblood of public authorities through the storage of relevant documents. In addition, the article covers the management functions, tasks and roles of the Italian state archives. Therefore, the final result can be assessed for the optimization of all types of public and private archival institutions. In particular, archives are analyzed not as documents, but as institutions and offices with a complex organization. An overview of Italian regulation and their characteristics in relation to territorial forms will be associated with a comparative study of the international scenario to illustrate the current bad and best practices of archival management. Archival management is an unexplored field, if not completely ignored in the Italian literature. The study allows the author to highlight best practices and develop internal management guidelines that apply to various archival institutions throughout Italy. In addition, research shows how archival institutions are able to optimize internal management through the application of project management methods, the constant growth and development of training.

Ephemeral identities, blurred geographies, and social media in twenty-first-century French fiction: a reading of Licorne by Nora Sandor and Un amour d’espion by Clément Bénech

While digital tools and platforms have become part of our everyday life, authors of fictional narratives voice the emerging hopes and fears resulting from interactive digital media. In this paper, I analyze two recently-published French novels, namely Un amour d’espion by Clément Bénech (2017) and Licorne by Nora Sandor (2019), in terms of how social networks affect in new ways the processes whereby identity is built and negotiated. Both novels focus on characters whose development as human beings is prevented by the contrasting illusions of ephemerality and digital hypermnesia. I show that the way characters use social media entails a sense of virtual disembodiment that shapes their perception of their physical bodies and surrounding spaces. I also argue that their online activity as represented in the novels invites reflections on the archival values of images and on social networks as fragmentary repositories of the self. In conclusion, I discuss how issues of ephemerality and disembodiment affect narrative choices in both novels.

Keyframe Extraction From Laparoscopic Videos via Diverse and Weighted Dictionary Selection

Laparoscopic videos have been increasingly acquired for various purposes including surgical training and quality assurance, due to the wide adoption of laparoscopy in minimally invasive surgeries. However, it is very time consuming to view a large amount of laparoscopic videos, which prevents the values of laparoscopic video archives from being well exploited. In this paper, a dictionary selection based video summarization method is proposed to effectively extract keyframes for fast access of laparoscopic videos. Firstly, unlike the low-level feature used in most existing summarization methods, deep features are extracted from a convolutional neural network to effectively represent video frames. Secondly, based on such a deep representation, laparoscopic video summarization is formulated as a diverse and weighted dictionary selection model, in which image quality is taken into account to select high quality keyframes, and a diversity regularization term is added to reduce redundancy among the selected keyframes. Finally, an iterative algorithm with a rapid convergence rate is designed for model optimization, and the convergence of the proposed method is also analyzed. Experimental results on a recently released laparoscopic dataset demonstrate the clear superiority of the proposed methods. The proposed method can facilitate the access of key information in surgeries, training of junior clinicians, explanations to patients, and archive of case files.

Surveillance of U.S. Corporate Filings Provides a Proactive Approach to Inform Tobacco Regulatory Research Strategy.

The popularity of electronic cigarettes in the United States and around the world has led to a startling rise in youth nicotine use. The Juul® e-cigarette was introduced in the U.S. market in 2015 and had captured approximately 13% of the U.S. market by 2017. Unlike many other contemporary electronic cigarette companies, the founders behind the Juul® e-cigarette approached their product launch like a traditional high-tech start-up company, not like a tobacco company. This article presents a case study of Juul’s corporate and product development history in the context of US regulatory actions. The objective of this article is to demonstrate the value of government-curated archives as leading indicators which can (a) provide insight into emergent technologies and (b) inform emergent regulatory science research questions. A variety of sources were used to gather data about the Juul® e-cigarette and the corporations that surround it. Sources included government agencies, published academic literature, non-profit organizations, corporate and retail websites, and the popular press. Data were disambiguated, authenticated, and categorized prior to being placed on a timeline of events. A timeline of four significant milestones, nineteen corporate filings and events, twelve US regulatory actions, sixty-four patent applications, eighty-seven trademark applications, twenty-three design patents and thirty-two utility patents related to Juul Labs and its associates is presented, spanning the years 2004 through 2020. This work demonstrates the probative value of findings from patent, trademark, and SEC filing literature in establishing a premise for emergent regulatory science research questions which may not yet be supported by traditional archival research literature. The methods presented here can be used to identify key aspects of emerging technologies before products actually enter the market; this shifting policy formulation and problem identification from a paradigm of being reactive in favor of becoming proactive. Such a proactive approach may permit anticipatory regulatory science research and ultimately shorten the elapsed time between market technology innovation and regulatory response.

‘IF YOU TROUBLE A HUNGRY SNAKE, YOU WILL FORCE IT TO BITE YOU’: RETHINKING POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN ARCHIVAL PESSIMISM, WORKER DISCONTENT, AND PETITION WRITING IN GHANA, 1957–66

AbstractMy aim is twofold. Highlighting the value and importance of African archives in the construction of postcolonial African histories, I first reject what I call ‘postcolonial African archival pessimism’: the argument that postcolonial African archives are too disorganized or ill-kept to be of much, if any, value in configuring postcolonial African histories. Second, primarily through petition and complaint letters, I examine how Ghanaian workers protested racist and abusive workplace environments, government malfeasance, stagnating wages, and unfair dismissals in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. These archival gems illuminate how workers made claims to and performances of citizenship and reminded the state of their importance, politically and practically, to building the Ghanaian project. From Ghanaian and British archives, I seek to complement histories that highlight the centrality of African workers — through their letters and feet — in articulating the contradictions and aspirations of postcolonial African states.

Archives in Neighborhood Businesses: A Case Study on Presence and Characteristics

This article discusses the potential role archives play in supporting commercial activity in everyday non-institutional settings. It is based around an exploratory case study of archives’ presence and characteristics in neighborhood bars and restaurants in a large Midwestern city. Using unobtrusive field observations and incorporating concepts and frameworks from the business and marketing psychology fields related to authenticity and nostalgia, the study offers insight into the decision-making processes around the use and value of archives, history, and heritage as a business strategy. The findings, based on observations and data gathering at select business locations, indicate extensive use of archival materials in a wide variety of visually engaging formats. The archival materials contribute to a history-informed aesthetic that gives each subject location a distinctive character. This study lays the groundwork for continued inquiry into business utilization and value of archives and recommends further research into the perceptions of business owners and customers on the role of archives in public commercial spaces.

Reparative Processing of the Luis Alberto S�nchez papers: Engaging the Conflict between Archival Values and Minimal Processing Practices

Reparative Processing of the Luis Alberto S�nchez papers: Engaging the Conflict between Archival Values and Minimal Processing Practices

2020 Index IEEE Transactions on Reliability Vol. 69

This index covers all technical items - papers, correspondence, reviews, etc. that appeared in this periodical during 1998, and items fromprevious years that were commented upon or corrected in 1998. In the case of magazines, departments and other items may be also covered if they have been judged to have archival value. The Author Index contains the primary entry for each item, listed under the first author’s name. The primary entry includes the coauthors’ names, the title of the paper or other item, and its location, specified by the publication abbreviation, year, month, and inclusive pagination. The Subject Index contains entries describing the item under all appropriate subject headings, plus the first author’s name, the publication abbreviation, month, and year, and inclusive pages. Subject cross-references are included to assist in finding items of interest. Note that the item title is found only under the primary entry in the Author Index.

.”No One Can Give You Protection“ The Reversal of Protection in a Persian Decree Dated 562/1167

While we know from historical texts that authorities in pre‑Mongol Iran and Central Asia issued letters of protection (amān‑nāma), no original has survived. In this article, we introduce one newly purchased document at the National Library of Israel catalogued as Ms.Heb.8333.86 and dated 562/1167, which refers to an act of protection (ḥimāyat)—or rather, its reversal. This is the closest we get to an actual documentary reference in Persian to an act of protection in the pre-Mongol period, and the document, therefore, merits closer study. The document offers an alternative history of protection far from the centres of power, at a very local level in the Ghūrid domains of today’s Central Afghanistan and northern India, and the survival of the document offers clues as to the longevity of acts of protection and their archival value. The study, by extension, highlights the dynamism of reciprocal loyalties between citizens and administrative officials in local communities.

The Archival Value of the <i>Joseon Sibo</i>, a Pusan Newspaper Published in the Japanese Colonial Era

The Archival Value of the <i>Joseon Sibo</i>, a Pusan Newspaper Published in the Japanese Colonial Era

HISTORICAL AND ARCHIVAL VALUE OF DOCUMENTS OF THE 1944 ARCHIVES CAUNCIL OF WORKERS′ DEPUTIES OF THE VIESITE CITY OF JEKABPILS DISTRICT

The topicality of the research is the determination of the historical and archival value of the 1944 archive documents of the executive committee of the Viesite City Council of Workers’ Deputies of Jēkabpils District. The aim of the article is to reflect the documents accumulated in the LNA Jēkabpils Zonal State Archive regarding the above-mentioned period of time and their historical and archival value. Tasks of the article: to reflect the criteria a document values, to reflect the composition of archival documents about the cases created in 1944. The article discusses the basic principles and criteria set out in the unified basic regulations of the State Archives of the Soviet Union approved by the USSR Council of Ministers, which had to be observed when determining the value of documentary material, preparing them for permanent storage in the state archives.