Archival Field Research Articles

Building a trauma-informed community of practice

This paper calls for a global community of practice to support people to enact trauma-informed practice in the archival profession. Building on the literature around archives and affect, decolonising spaces, and centring communities, it proposes trauma-informed practice is implemented in archives, and a community of practice be established to support those doing the work. It recognises the emotional labour of many in the archival field, and furthers conversations held at the Archival Education and Research Institute 2019 where the value of a community of practice was evidenced. The community of practice would bring together communities, academics, researchers, practitioners, volunteers, users, donors, and anyone with an interest in improving archival theory, education and practice to support trauma-informed approaches in archives, and support those undertaking the work. It ends with a call for co-creators of a trauma-informed community of practice.

Between Reality and the Needs: Responsibilities of Educational Institutions in Developing Archival Science in Indonesia

Background of the study: The requirement of Archivists (archivist and records manager) in Indonesia is not equal to the quantity of graduates produced by educational institutions. In addition 4.0 with the educational requirements and the needs of stakeholders who want graduates from the archival field at the highest level should be accommodated. Therefore, educational institutions are forefront in developing archival science.Purpose: This study aims to find out how the responsibility of educational institutions in developing the knowledge of the field of archives in Indonesia in the era of information technologyMethod: This study uses descriptive qualitative, interviews, and literature studies.Findings: This study discusses the Efforts of educational institutions to improve the archival science by establishing a higher education program through the mindset of building and synergy with other elements. In addition, educational institution has responsibility in the archival field in Realizing the archival sense.Conclusion: Archival science more interpreted in a theoretical structure that supports the activities of archival practical, rather than academic disciplines. If the method is applied science, the science of archives will tend to be highly empirical making it a descriptive science. This tendency will make archival science seeks only to gather facts and less attention to the development of the concept as well as demanded by the development of science through a study. To develop scientific archives in Indonesia, the necessary synergy between archival institutions, archival professional associations, educational institutions allied, as well as among students in educational institutions. This must be done with the agreement in the field of archives that apply universally to realize the creation of the organization of archives in Indonesia better.

Social Media and Platform Historiography: Challenges and Opportunities

In this article, we propose a methodological outlook for historical platform studies to increase the prominence of platform historiography in the field and practice of web history and archiving. We discuss the challenges of social media archiving and the research opportunities for ‘platform’ historiography by focusing on the distinctive characteristics of web-based social media ‘platforms’. Based on our review of the literature, we argue that it is critical to foreground how contemporary platforms serve multiple user groups beyond end users (e.g. developers, business, investors) and how they operate on multiple levels (e.g. interface, architecture, ecosystem). By attending to the multiple sides and layers of social media beyond their end users only, we can reconstruct histories of platforms, not only as social networks, but also as technical artefacts, business organisations, and more. A focus on the materiality of platforms introduces numerous underutilised archived web sources that present significant entry points and research opportunities for platform historiography. We assess the availability of these archived sources across the leading web archives. Our results show that despite the challenges of social media archiving, platforms’ resources are in fact well-preserved if we look beyond their end-user interfaces. Drawing on illustrative examples, we discuss two sets of entry points and materials for platform historiography at length: first, for writing developer-side histories, and second, for business-side histories. We conclude with recommendations for platform historians and archiving practitioners and reflections on the future of platform historiography.

Metamorphosis of Archivists in The Era of Industry 4.0: Challenges in Facing the Digital Revolution

Background of the study: Development of information and communication technology (ICT)Purpose: This research analyzes that using Internet technology of things (IOT), for example in managing large archive-based computing can help archivists to master the technology used in the Industry 4.0.Method: The author uses the method of hermeneutics Ricoeur (Hermeneutics Phenomenology). Hermeneutics method that seeks to bring interpreters at a better understanding of themselves through the activity of which is known as an appropriation. In this hermeneutic, activity is not a dichotomy between the subjective dimension of the subject and the object objectivity.Activities interpret these methodological least cover four categories, namely: objectivation through the structure, distances through writing, distances through the world of the text, and appropriation (or sense of self).Findings: As archivists need to consider the possibility that our jobs become more technical and complex if it wants to stay in the Industry 4.0. As an experienced in archival work, the author himself is still difficult to imagine what it might be like if the archival work associated with the field of biotechnology and nanotechnology as the convergence of these two areas are the development of the field of archives is not too obvious. However, considering that ICT is still the main technology, the authors will be focused in this area just by paying attention to the ongoing trend in this field in relation to archiving.Conclusion: The constancy of this profession will depend on his response to the growing challenges of the digital world and the adaptation of professionalism does.

Queer Adventures in the Forum and the Archive: Or, the Flood Made Immersion Possible

Inspired by the Queer Archival Immersion Seminar at the Kinsey Institute during the 2017 Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Summer Institute, this article engages the queerness of archival research to illustrate how the productive tension between the delight of discovery and the discomfort of anxiety and inadequacy emerges from the process of research and archival immersion. Combining archival field methods and autoethnographic reflection, I ask how cohabitation and a collective dwelling in the archive compelled my body to feel both delight and anxiety. This story aims to illustrate how the relational experience of archival research contains within it the capacity to queer the processes of research and knowledge production. To animate this claim, I narrate how my body in the archive both resists and complies with the call of the objects in front of me. This is the story of being in the Kinsey with fellow archival queers and explores how that being with facilitates embodied lines of inquiry and potential moments of queer worldmaking for our objects of desire and research.

Observing the author–editor relationship: recordkeeping and literary scholarship in dialogue

ABSTRACTIn the call for papers for this special issue, a lack of dialogue was noted between ‘archivists and literary scholars’. This article has arisen from a collaboration across that divide, between two individuals who between them embody multiple identities of archivist and publisher, archival and literary scholar. The purpose of this collaboration was to establish a common frame of reference which would encompass and give equal weight to the concerns and working contexts of both. To assist in this aim, both researchers agreed that neither the field of archives or of literary scholarship would be privileged. The focus in this study is on the relationship between the author and the editor within the academic publishing sector. With these parameters set as the starting point, research questions were drawn up from both perspectives to guide the project. These questions were, to some extent, addressed, but a more important outcome of the process was the development of a common frame of reference in which to continue the dialogue, through a broader and more abstract idea of the scholarly record and not just one of records as material resources for literary scholarship.

French Documents on the Beginning of the World War II

The Federal archival agency, the Russian Ministry of foreign affairs and the Russian Historical Society organized in 2018 a large-scale historical documentary project (an exhibition and online publication) on the background and consequences of the Munich Agreement (November 1937 – March 1938)11 This year marked by the 80th anniversary of the beginning of Second World War the project is to be continued in the form of an exhibition and an online publication of archival documents. We offer our readers some French documents. They are stored at the Russian State Military Archive in the fund «The Ministry of War of France. Military districts, fortified areas, army, corps, divisions, regiments, brigades, military educational institutions and other military organizations» (RGVA. F. 198k).) The fund contains materials on the activities of the French highest military bodies and their units, as well as documents on the headquarters and garrisons of the French military fortresses. These documents were moved from Germany to Moscow after the end of World War II and subsequently were incorporated into the foreign funds of RGVA. In 1993–1994 on the basis of bilateral intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the field of state archives, identification and return of archival documents and on the basis of the Federal Law of April 15, 1998 No. 64-ФЗ «On Cultural Values Moved to the USSR as a Result of the Second World War and Located on the territory of the Russian Federation» the documents of the 198k fund were transferred to France. The most valuable of the them were microfilmed; their copies are kept in the RGVA on the rights of originals. The two documents being published in this issue of MGIMO Review of International Relations are part of the 198k fund (second inventory), containing documents from French military attachés in European countries, which focus on their political and economic situation, armed forces, countries occupied by Germany, foreign and domestic USSR policy, the state of the Red Army, as well as intelligence reports of the 2nd bureau of the General Staff of the French army. Both documents: Note by the French military attaché in the USSR O.-A. Palace to the Minister of National Defense and the Minister of War of France E. Daladier about the strategic situation in Eastern Europe and its influence on the position of the USSR government on the conclusion of the Anglo-Franco-Soviet agreement on mutual assistance of July 13, 1939 (RGVA. F. 198. Op. 2. D. 466. L. 43–50) and the Report of the French Military Attaché in Poland F. Musse to the Minister of National Defense and the Minister of War of France E. Daladier on the influence of Poland on the course and results of the Anglo-French-Soviet negotiations of August 24, 1939 (RGVA. F. 198k. Op.2. D. 292. L. 148–166) are published in Russian translation for the first time.

Visibility and order at the Salt Lake City Main Public Library: commonplaces, deviant publics, and the rhetorical criticism of neoliberalism’s geographies

ABSTRACTI analyze the Salt Lake City Main Public Library (SLCMPL) through archival work, textual analysis, and field methods. Through attention to the site’s mechanisms of emergence, its relationship to the city’s Public Safety Building, and movements through the building in the present, I argue the SLCMPL materializes a neoliberal orientation to commonplaces through a dual emphasis on order and visibility. The building’s design and meanings invite heterogeneous visitors to become watchful subjects, utilizing the architecture to ensure the production of an orderly public space. In making this argument, I contribute to the study of neoliberal geographies, commonplaces, and rhetorical methods.

The “PARTHENOS Training Webinar Series”: Webinars as a Means of Delivering Successful Research Infrastructure Training in eHumanities and eHeritage

Research infrastructures have an ever greater presence in both the Humanities and Cultural Heritage Studies. Scholars and information professionals working in the fields of research libraries, archives, and information play a crucial role as users and providers in cultivating the kind of world-class research that today increasingly relies on the use of these digital research infrastructures. Therefore, their continuous professional development is essential for them to be able to reap the benefits available from the ever-changing field of eHumanities and eHeritage research infrastructures, a mission that is at the heart of the Training team of the Horizon 2020 funded project PARTHENOS (“Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage e-Research, Optimization and Synergies”). This paper describes the “PARTHENOS eHumanities and eHeritage Webinar Series”. These five live and interactive seminars delivered via the internet represent an introductory training programme that focuses on the professional development and capacity building needs and requirements of (digital) humanities and cultural heritage scholars, as well as of information specialists who work for digital humanities and digital heritage infrastructures. Using the PARTHENOS Webinar Series as a case study of the development and delivery of research infrastructure-focussed professional development, the paper outlines the intellectual, educational, and practical context in which the PARTHENOS Webinar Series was conceived, the syllabus used for the initial run of the series, and the analysis of the data collection exercises conducted after the first five webinars, especially the feedback collected from both the trainees and the trainers (online survey and open questions study), and it discusses possibilities for improvement. In the conclusion, the paper places the insights from the PARTHENOS webinars in the context of the potential of webinars for research infrastructure training. It argues that in order to reap their full potential for research infrastructures as training instrument as well as instruments to gain insights in user requirements, new developments, and for community building, further theoretical grounding, professionalization, and on-going analysis of their effectiveness is needed.

The obsolescence of Information and Information Systems CERN Digital Memory project

In 2016 was started the CERN Digital Memory project with the main goal of preventing loss of historical content produced by the organisation. The first step of the project was targeted to address the risk of deterioration of the most vulnerable materials, mostly the multimedia assets created in analogue formats from 1954 to the late 1990’s, like still and moving images kept on magnetic carriers. In parallel was studied today’s best practices to guarantee a long life to digital content, either born digital or resulting from a digitization process. If traditional archives and libraries have grown up during centuries establishing recognized standards to deal with the preservation of printed content, the field of digital archiving is in its infancy. This paper shortly exposes the challenges when migrating hundreds of thousands of audio, slides, negatives, videotapes or films from the analogue to the digital era. It will then describe how a Digital Memory platform is being built, conform to the principles of the ISO-16363 digital object management norm that defines trustworthy digital repositories. Finally, as all information repository managers are faced with the necessary migration of underlying systems and the obsolescence of the information itself, the talk will explain how a digital archiving platform focusing only on content preservation could be of direct interest for most of the live systems.

ANALISIS PENGELOLAAN ARSIP DI SEKRETARIAT DPRD KABUPATEN

This study aims to reveal how the Analysis of Archive Management in the Secretariat of the Regency of Agam regency. The type of this research is descriptive and qualitative research, sampling technique used is Snowball Sampling technique with the number of informants 7 people. Data collection techniques used are observation, interviews and documentation with research instruments using interview guidelines. Data analysis techniques used are Miles and Huberman models. To test the validity of data used triangulation technique.The results of this study indicate that the archive management procedures in the secretariat of the Regency of Agam regency has not been implemented properly. It can be seen from 4 (four) cycles, namely: 1) Management of filing system, 2) Management of equipment and infrastructure, 3) problem management, 4) Management of Human Resource Management, from the four management there are problems in each - management. Those problems are. Management of filing systems where in archival system procedures use the time system, sometimes in the invention of the letter takes a long time in his invention. Management of equipment where facilities and infrastructure are inadequate or incomplete. Problem management is the number of damaged archives and even the archive is not found and the management of Human Resource Management is less in charge of qualification in the field of archives.Based on the above research the authors provide some suggestions in revamping the archive management procedures in the Secretariat of the Regency of Agam regency is the need for improvements made on the management of the archive. In addition, there should also be socialization or training for employees in the field of archives, and complete the facilities and infrastructure in the Secretariat of the Regency of AgamKeywords: Analysis, Archive

ANALISIS EFEKTIVITAS DAN EFISIENSI PENYIMPANAN ARSIP (STUDI KASUS DI KANTOR CAMAT TIUMANG) KABUPATEN DHARMASRAYA SUMATERA BARAT

The aims of this research is to reveal how effective and efficience archival storage at Tiumang su-district office. The type of research is descriptive and qualitative research. The sampling technique used is the technique Snowball Sampling. Data collection techniques used were observation, interviews and documentation. The research instrument used is the interview guide and a tape recorder. Data analysis technique used is the model of Miles and Huberman. To test the validity of the data used triangulation technique. These results indicate that the archive storage at Tiumang su-district office not yet effective and eficience . This is evident from the files stored not use archival storage system , the amount of equipment and supplies were inadequate and the lack of skilled personnel in the field of archives . Keywords :effectiveness and efficience Storage of Archive

Genre, inégalités et promotion de la santé à l’échelle locale. L’exemple gennevillois

Social inequalities in health and access to care remain significant in France. Cultural and socioeconomic dimensions of health inequalities are often studied, but gender-specific behaviors and local dynamics are rarely investigated. This article aims to examine the role of municipal representatives, public health policies and local communities in unequal access to prevention for men and women. We analyze the relationship between gender, space and health through the case study of health promotion in the town of Gennevilliers (Paris region). We rely on data from over six months of field work based on semi-structured interviews with elected officials, health professionals, social field and civil society actors as well as archival consultations and field observations. We show that the town of Gennevilliers, by the age of the inclusion of health in local policies, the dynamism of the associative network and local players or the number of innovative actions, is a relevant and inspiring example for analyzing the obstacles and means of health interventions. But, this article also demonstrates that the promotion of preventive health, rooted in long-term and complex territorial dynamics, can also contribute to the strengthening of gender roles and differences between men and women. Finally, this study pinpoints the need for an approach integrating both gender and territorial questions in the analysis as well as the development of health promotion campaigns.

An evening at Radio Donko: hunters, sorcerers and presenters on the air in Mali’s Afropolis

ABSTRACTIn Bamako, Mali, radio presenters record, archive and broadcast field recordings of hunters’ musical performances, thus contributing to the transmission and dissemination of that music, locally and nationally. This article is a reflexive account of a hunters’ radio show at one of Bamako’s private radio stations, Radio Donko. Through ethnographic narrative, thick description and analysis, I show how radio presenters, hunters’ musicians, sorcerers and audiences engage, interact and negotiate power, morality, identity and social positioning in a contemporary Afropolis: Bamako. I argue that such subtle and pronounced interactions are deeply rooted in traditionally informed intersubjectivities that arise from the lifeworlds of hunters. Radio becomes a means for social agents to form, maintain and expand social networks that revolve around cultural norms, personal expectations and existential concerns that correspond to hunters’ behavioural codes and worldviews.

Балтійський форум з обміну досвідом і передовими практиками у сфері архівування і просування аудіовізуальної спадщини

The history of creation, the main aspects of the activity and structural organization of the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council, its contribution to the system of regional international cooperation in the fi eld of archiving and promoting the audiovisual heritage is researched.

PELAKSANAAN INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL (IP) DALAM BIDANG ILMU INFORMASI, PERPUSTAKAAN DAN ARSIP

The amount of information often makes us confused to choose information. We cannot judge whether this is the right information or not. On this basis the existence of an Information Professional (IP) in an institution is important. This study aims to provide an overview of the IP and what they can do in the field of library science, information and archives. In this article the authors review some literature related to the implementation of IP, institutions engaged in IP services and institutions that provide IP training. This study explains that: 1. IP jobs can come from a variety of educational backgrounds, such as IT, archives, libraries or information. 2. There are now specialized agencies that provide training for someone who wants to become an IP professional such as Special Libraries Association and AIIM The Global Community of Information Professional. 3. Although in Indonesia there is no specific institution of IP service providers, but some institutions have provided forms of IP services, such as Kompas Newspaper Information Center providing information services, National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia and consulting services, Tata Solusi that provide archiving management services. 4. Some libraries in other countries such as Singapore Management University and Nanyang Technology University, started to provide IP services such as consulting facilities and research activities assistance.

"Can I study you?" Cross-disciplinary conversations in queer Internet studies

We first met around a workshop table at the queer Internet studies (QIS2) in Philadelphia in February 2017. This conversation began when we realized that we all had some disciplinary knowledges, training and practice that can bear upon queer Internet studies, but simultaneously we felt unprepared for the methodological-ethical challenges posed by the Internet as a queer research environment. Michelle was trained in ethnography as an anthropologist and Jasmine and TL were trained in humanities perspectives — mostly through literature, performance studies and art history, though about five years ago they had begun to retrain in the fields of online archives, pedagogies and networks, which has led to a new collaborative research project on digital research ethics. We had all been trained in dyke/queer/feminist methods and critical theory, and continue to work in this area. And we all were experiencing some gut feelings about the need for better understandings of disciplinary practices — what we are doing, how do we apply what we know how to do, and why are we doing it — across disciplines as we enter the Internet as researchers, in a research situation. What follows is a conversation the three of us had over email and videoconference between July–October 2017, which revolved around the question of what ethnographic methods can bring to Internet research, and what might queer and feminist research ethics look like in the context of digital research environments.

Think of Me When I Am Gone: Assessing Faculty Archives at the Yale Peabody Museum

For universities with museums and galleries, the inevitability of faculty retirements, departures, and passings is a challenge for collection managers. The preservation and retrieval of archival field records and research is critical to the documentation of museum collections. Unfortunately, there are no expectations for faculty members to donate their personal papers to the museums which curate their collections. The potential to lose essential data, such as provenance information, stresses the importance of tackling these problems early. All too often, decisions about retention of these materials are made by uninformed academic departments or family heirs, and these decisions can be detrimental to the future value of museum collections. The best solution is to be proactive and work with the professor or researcher and academic departments before they are gone. The Harold C. and Jean M. Conklin Archives at the Yale Peabody Museum will be used as a case study to illustrate the efforts necessary by an institution to preserve vital supporting documentation to its collections. Conklin was a Professor of Anthropology at Yale, a Curator at the Peabody, and a researcher in the field of Southeast Asian studies for over six decades.

Heritage narratives in the digital era

Purpose By considering the role of technology in museum archives and exhibitions, as well as company archives and production, this paper aims to present that digital technologies offer new approaches and tools to consider fashion know-how, traditions and memories. Design/methodology/approach Through an extensive literature review and a close consideration of multiple sources, this paper analyzes fashion, tradition and knowledge creation through the lens of museum and company archives. A section on museum archives analyzes the role of fashion in the museum and the use of technology in cataloging, online resources and exhibitions for knowledge transfer of fashion history. The second half of the paper considers the relationship between heritage, company archives and technology in branding and consumer engagement. Findings The paper summarizes recent scholarship in the fields of fashion archives and demonstrates the still current importance of heritage in generating new design and exhibition practices. Despite having its roots in the past, heritage demonstrates continuity with the present and looks to the future with the same devotion and commitment, thus guaranteeing quality and authenticity for both museum collections and company productions. Originality/value Through a case study methodology, this paper presents how digital technologies can offer new approaches and tools in museum archives and exhibitions, as well as in company archives and collection development, to reconsider and translate fashion know-how, traditions and memories in the digital era.

The formation of archivists on the use of modern technology in the archive : a field study at the archive services of the universities of Constantine, Batna and Jijel

The importance of employees training in any institution is an essential element in the success and development in the IT field that became not ignorable in the information society, and in the light of the modern trends for the governments and institutions that attempts to modernize the administration by training its employees in the technological aspect, for that, the archive field is not an exception from this rule.This research has been conducted in this context to highlight the role of training in the technological aspect for the archivists in improving, and upgrading these archivists to practice their tasks with more effectively, as well as to provide Quality services for the different users, by using the modern tools.