Archival Institutions Research Articles

Development of the Borobudur Conservation Archives services with ICA-AtoM

The Borobudur Conservation Office as a memory institution manages its archives and disseminates information about preserving the Borobudur Temple. The Borobudur Conservation Archives have also recognized as a Memory of the World by UNESCO in 2017. Therefore, developing a website using the ICA Atom platform based on open source is important for accessibility of the Borobudur Conservation Archives at the Borobudur Conservation Office. The purpose this study is explain how development of the Borobudur Conservation Archives accessed services through the ICA-AtoM platform with analysis the process of integrating digitized data and the development of the Borobudur Conservation Archives. This study used a qualitative approach with data collection methods: literature study, participatory observation, and interviews. A literature study used library sources related to the research topic. The participatory observation was conducted through fieldwork practices for two months, from 21 December 2020 to 26 February 2021, at the Borobudur Conservation Office. This study used structured and unstructured interviews. The study result was that the development of the ICA-AtoM design had been adapted to the needs of the Borobudur Conservation Office. From the aspect of usage, the developed website https://arsip.borobudurpedia.id has met user needs with standards issued by the International Council on Archives (ICA) and metadata standards. In conclusion, the development of the ICA AtoM platform version 2.5 and the creation of archival information contextualized as shared content for users with evidentiary value, informational value, and intrinsic value are uploaded to the website, including archival descriptions, authority records, and archival institutions.

DIGITALISASI ARSIP DALAM MENDUKUNG PELAKSANAAN E-GOVERNMENT

E-Government is a government-issued policy to increase access to open information for digital-based communities. Higher education through the Higher Education Archives Institute seeks to implement an e-government system by joining the National Archival Information Network (JIKN) and the National Archival Information System (SIKN). On the other hand, to implement this, Higher Education Archives Institutions need to digitize their previously conventional archives. Old media has become digital, the results of which can be accessed by the public. Digitizing archives is one of the tasks of the Higher Education Archives Institution to provide information on the track record of higher education, starting from its founding to its development. This study aims to analyze the management of digitization of archives carried out by the Archives Office of the University of North Sumatra in supporting the implementation of e-Government and the utilization of an information network system that is used as an archive access portal. The research method used is descriptive with a qualitative approach which aims to obtain an overview of archive digitization management activities at the Archives Office of the University of North Sumatra. The results showed that digitizing the archives of the University of North Sumatra was carried out by transferring vital historical archives contained in photographs, cassette tapes, and VHS tapes, Betamax (old media). Then the University of North Sumatra Archives became a member of JIKN and SIKN to support the implementation of e-Government. This study recommends that archival research researchers start to create a grand design for digitizing archives with high value as a source of knowledge. Then, this research will be helpful for policymakers and all stakeholders to manage the digitization of university archives.

Palisading Adenocarcinoma: A Morphologically Unique Salivary Gland Tumor With a Neuroendocrine-like Appearance and a Predilection for the Sublingual Glands of Women.

Adenocarcinoma, not otherwise specified (NOS) is a heterogenous group of salivary gland tumors that likely contains distinct tumors that have not yet been characterized. Indeed, in recent years, cases previously diagnosed as adenocarcinoma, NOS have been recategorized into novel tumor designations such as secretory carcinoma, microsecretory adenocarcinoma, and sclerosing microcystic adenocarcinoma. We sought to describe a distinctive, hitherto-undescribed salivary gland tumor encountered in the authors' practices. Cases were pulled from the surgical pathology archives of the authors' institutions. Histologic, immunohistochemical, and clinical findings were tabulated, and targeted next-generation sequencing was performed on all cases. Nine cases were identified, arising in 8 women and 1 man ranging from 45 to 74 years (mean, 56.7y). Seven tumors (78%) arose in the sublingual gland, while 2 (22%) arose in the submandibular gland. The cases shared a distinctive morphologic appearance. They were biphasic, with ducts scattered among a predominant polygonal cell with round nuclei, prominent nucleoli, and pale eosinophilic cytoplasm. These cells were arranged as trabeculae and palisaded as pseudorosettes around hyalinized stroma and vessels, resembling a neuroendocrine tumor. Four of the cases were well-circumscribed, while the remaining 5 showed infiltrative growth including perineural invasion in 2 (22%) and lymphovascular invasion in 1 (11%). Mitotic rates were low (mean, 2.2/10HPFs); necrosis was absent. By immunohistochemistry, the predominant cell type was strongly positive for CD56 (9 of 9) and variably positive for pan-cytokeratin (AE1/AE3) (7 of 9) with patchy S100 (4 of 9), but negative for synaptophysin (0 of 9) and chromogranin (0 of 9), while the ducts were strongly positive for pan-cytokeratin (AE1/AE3) (9 of 9) and CK5/6 (7 of 7). Next-generation sequencing did not reveal any fusions or obvious driver mutations. All cases were resected surgically, with external beam radiation also done in 1 case. Follow-up was available in 8 cases; there were no metastases or recurrences after 4 to 160 months (mean, 53.1mo). A dual population of scattered ducts with a predominance of CD56-positive neuroendocrine-like cells characterizes a unique salivary gland tumor which is often encountered in the sublingual glands of women, for which we propose the term "palisading adenocarcinoma." Although the tumor was biphasic and had a neuroendocrine-like appearance, it lacked convincing immunohistochemical evidence of myoepithelial or neuroendocrine differentiation. Although a subset showed unequivocally invasive growth, this tumor appears to behave in an indolent manner. Moving forward, recognition of palisading adenocarcinoma and its separation from other salivary adenocarcinomas, NOS will facilitate a better understanding of the characteristics of this previously unrecognized tumor.

Information Support of Oraganization of Communication Between Citizens and Archival Institutions

The relevance of the article. The Internet is a powerful tool for finding and providing information. In modern conditions, one of the most important elements of the functioning of the Internet is a website, which ensures the proper process of communication between all participants of the virtual space. As a result, the development of a website on the Internet will allow the use of modern technologies for the development of information support for professional activity and professional communication. An important component of the information support of archival activity in the period of information technologies development is the presentation of the product on the Internet using its own website. This is providing the user with access to archival documents through information bases and reading rooms, providing as complete and objective information as possible about the composition and content of archival funds through the global Internet network.
 The purpose of the article. To conduct a study of the application of innovative technologies in the practical activity of archival institutions and the improvement of its information support.
 The methodology. The article examines the need to modernize the archive file by implementing a website into the activities of these institutions.
 The results. As a result, the needs of users were determined and a website project was developed, which will provide users with the necessary services and improve the prestige of the institution.
 The scientific novelty. The article highlights innovative ideas for creating a web portal for the archive that will cover all the necessary services.
 The practical significance. The practically implemented website project for the archive of the Lviv Polytechnic can be used by default to present its services on the Internet, communicate with citizens, as well as provide services through the created functions of submitting and receiving documents.

PENGGUNAAN WEBSITE APPSHEET SEBAGAI TEMU BALIK ARSIP INAKTIF FOTO DI DINAS PERPUSTAKAAN DAN KEARSIPAN KABUPATEN PONOROGO

<p><em>Information is an important part of communication between individuals and groups. Information is closely related to archive search. Archive searching is an important part of archive editing because searching allows researchers to find important information in archives. Based on the results of an archive search survey at one of the archival institutions, namely the Ponorogo Regency Library and Archives Service, archive searches are still limited through Microsoft Excel and there are no other innovations. Seeing current technological developments, researchers offer solutions for searching archives through the AppSheet website at the Ponorogo Regency Library and Archives Service. The purpose of this study, among others, is to find out how to use the AppSheet website, use the AppSheet website in related agencies, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the AppSheet website. The research method in this study is a qualitative method through interviews and observation. The informants in this study were 4 archivists in related agencies. The results of the study show that how to use the AppSheet website consists of 22 steps. How to use the AppSheet website in related agencies include: 1) The features provided are quite easy to use. 2) Retrieval components that are fulfilled include: users, queries, documents, and matching. 3) The description is complete. 4) The retrieval step is quite easy. 5) Available metadata include: processing unit, file number, file number, description of archive information, time period, and amount. 6) Obstacles in the operation of the AppSheet website as a retrieval of inactive photo archives so far not all users can access and cannot be operated offline. 7) The solution for operating the AppSheet website as a retrieval of inactive photo archives is that later users who really need access to these inactive photo archives will be allowed to view them to get information to support their final thesis or assignment. In addition, active photos need to be placed on a flash disk to back up data. 8) There is no comparison with other applications. 9) Criticism and suggestions follow technology and regulatory developments in politics and law and features are added. Disadvantages of the AppSheet website include: users must understand technology and need to share links so that other users can access them. The advantages: increasing efficiency, effectiveness, presentation of information, when it is static it can be accessed by the public.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>: Inactive Photo Archive Retrieval, AppSheet Website, Ponorogo District Library and Archives Service.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p>

Crime at the Gate of Tuzla: Historical Facts, Reactions and Disclaimer Liability

The cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina that were in the period 1992-1995. were under siege or surrounded by Serbian forces, were exposed to continuous mortar and artillery attacks from positions controlled by the VRS. Locations that were regarded as mass gathering places for people, such as markets, squares, schools, kindergartens, children's parks, hospitals, city transport vehicles were very often the targets of sudden shelling, which resulted in mass killings of civilians. Exactly the same methods were applied by the Serbian forces in all the cities that were declared safe zones by the United Nations. In this paper, applying a historical approach, the massacre at the Tuzla Gate was analyzed on May 25, 1995, which was one of the saddest days in the history of the city of Tuzla, when 71 civilians were killed and 173 civilians were wounded by shrapnel from a grenade fired from the direction of Ozren. , which represents the largest number of victims and the most massive crime from a single shell during the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to the indispensable interpretation of the political and military context at the time of the crime at the Tuzla Gate, and the then-current NATO attacks on the positions of the VRS, the work also deals with the analysis of the minutes of the investigation of the Prosecutor's Office and the Security Service Center of the MUP of RBiH, the investigative actions of the United Nations carried out on the ground the places immediately after the crime, the daily reports of UNPROFOR, as well as the reactions that followed this crime. Immediately after the massacre, representatives of investigative bodies, the Municipality of Tuzla, archival institutions, journalists, intellectuals and citizens of Tuzla made a significant contribution in documenting the facts of the crime committed. On the first anniversary of the massacre, 5/25/1996. In the book The Dawn Murder, photographs and short biographical data with a lot of emotional content about each victim, their occupation, an exact description of the circumstances of the crime, as well as the exact place where they were at the time of the crime were published. The smiles in the photos full of liveliness are forever stopped in their interrupted youth, but through the mentioned book, as well as through the permanent exhibition of the Kapija Memorial Center, they continue to live permanently in the memories of their fellow citizens of Tuzla, Bosnians and Herzegovina, with a message to future generations: You don't just live here to live, one does not live here only to die, one dies here to live. Respecting everything that the people of Tuzla have done in terms of memorialization of crimes, collective memory and memory, the mentioned activities can certainly serve as an example to other cities, where civilians were killed in the same or similar way. The Archives of the Tuzla Canton have important materials about the massacre, such as the “Tuzlanska Kapija” Collection of documents, and I am extremely grateful to the management and collaborators of the Archives for allowing me access to the said documentation. The judgment in the Đukić case (2009, 2010 and 2014) also offered very significant answers to crucial questions regarding the direction of the shelling, as well as the responsibility of Novak Đukić and TG Ozren for the aforementioned criminal offense, in which the aforementioned issues are discussed in an argumentative manner, with plenty of evidence. . Without major ambitions to enter into a discussion about the complexity of the mentioned case in relation to the question of how Đukić, even without having served his prison sentence, found himself free, we note that there was a lot of discussion about the incorrect application of the law (CZ BiH 2003-CZ SFRY 1976) regarding the height punishments, while the facts established in the Judgment were not called into question. The documentation that was used in the Đukić case was also available to me for research. It was extremely important to analyze the aforementioned material from the point of view of historians, and I am also very grateful to the associates of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for providing it. A special research focus in this paper relates to the contextualization of the mentioned crime, the clarification of what preceded the massacre itself, as well as the reactions that followed. The paper is structured into five chapters, which deal with the circumstances that preceded the massacre at the Tuzla Gate, the killing of youth on Youth Day, investigations after the massacre, reactions and military intervention, while the final chapter discusses the revision of historical facts and the denial of the court verdict in the case. Novak Djukic.

Source base of judiciary of Malopolska Wschodnia in state policy of Second Polish Republic: documents of archival institutions of Western region of Ukraine

Source base of judiciary of Malopolska Wschodnia in state policy of Second Polish Republic: documents of archival institutions of Western region of Ukraine

Osteoid osteomas of the hands and feet: a series of 71 cases.

Osteoid osteomas typically arise in the long bones of extremities. Patients often report pain relieved by NSAIDS, and radiographic findings are often sufficient for diagnosis. However, when involving the hands/feet, these lesions may go unrecognized or misdiagnosed radiographically due to their small size and prominent reactive changes. The clinicopathologic features of this entity involving the hands and feet are not well-described. Our institutional and consultation archives were searched for all cases of pathologically confirmed osteoid osteomas arising in the hands and feet. Clinical data was obtained and recorded. Seventy-one cases (45 males and 26 females, 7 to 64 years; median 23 years) arose in the hands and feet, representing 12% of institutional and 23% of consultation cases. The clinical impression often included neoplastic and inflammatory etiologies. Radiology studies demonstrated a small lytic lesion in all cases (33/33), the majority of which had a tiny focus of central calcification (26/33). Nearly, all cases demonstrated cortical thickening and/or sclerosis and perilesional edema which almost always had an extent two times greater than the size of the nidus. Histologic examination showed circumscribed osteoblastic lesions with formation of variably mineralized woven bone with single layer of osteoblastic rimming. The most common growth pattern of bone was trabecular (n = 34, 48%) followed by combined trabecular and sheet-like (n = 26, 37%) with only 11 (15%) cases presenting with pure sheet-like growth pattern. The majority (n = 57, 80%) showed intra-trabecular vascular stroma. No case showed significant cytology atypia. Follow up was available for 48 cases (1-432 months), and 4 cases recurred. Osteoid osteomas involving the hands and feet follow a similar age and sex distribution as their non-acral counterparts. These lesions often present with a broad differential diagnosis and may initially be confused with chronic osteomyelitis or a reactive process. While the majority of cases have classic morphologic features on histologic exam, a small subset consists solely of sheet-like sclerotic bone. Awareness that this entity may present in the hands and feet will help pathologists, radiologists, and clinicians accurately diagnose these tumors.

Seminex In Print: A Comprehensive Bibliography by David O. Berger

Reviewed by: Seminex In Print: A Comprehensive Bibliography by David O. Berger Mark Granquist Seminex In Print: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Compiled by David O. Berger with Daniel Harmelink. Concordia Historical Society Monograph Series. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2021. xiv + 221 pp. The 1974 walkout of students and faculty from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis was a major event, specifically in the history of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS), but also for American Lutheranism in general. This walkout led to an exodus of congregations and pastors from the LCMS and the formation of a new [End Page 221] Lutheran denomination, and eventually was a major impetus to the formation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1988. Unfortunately, the comprehensive study of the walkout and its aftermath has yet to be written, although important works like James C. Burkee's Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod (2011) have moved in that direction. This volume, a comprehensive bibliography of the events, is another vital step in that direction. David Berger is professor of Practical Theology and director of Library Services at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis; with the help of Daniel Harmelink, Director of the Concordia Historical Institute, he has gathered a remarkably complete bibliography of printed sources on the history of the Seminex (Seminary-in-Exile) controversy as it unfolded in the 1970s. The sources include a nearly complete listing of the primary print sources from the 1970s, mainly periodical and official church documents, as well as selected journal articles and editorials from that time. Also included are a list of major books on the topic (with lists of book reviews of them), a list of the manuscript collections at the Concordia Historical Institute and other major Lutheran archives, and a helpful digest of actions in the LCMS conventions from 1962 to 1975 that show the course of events leading up to the walkout. The index is extremely helpful, as it lists chronologically all the publications of major figures in the controversy. The trouble with trying to work with major events such as the Seminex walkout is the vast number of primary and secondary sources that must be consulted. This volume is a remarkably useful roadmap for future researchers, so that historians will be able effectively to tell the story of this event. Mark Granquist Luther Seminary Saint Paul, Minnesota Copyright © 2023 Johns Hopkins University Press and Lutheran Quarterly, Inc.

Shared soundscapes: The (re)activation of an institutional and individual archive of Peruvian music and dance

Abstract“Shared soundscapes” is a key concept that allows us to identify the multiplicity of agencies involved in historical sound recordings and their reactivation today. We use the notion to compare two very different Peruvian case studies concerning Asháninka and Nomatsiguenga peoples of the Central Rainforest and Muchik, Quechua, and mestizo peoples in the Lambayeque region, along with their respective music traditions. Part of their sonic legacy is stored in archives; one was created by an individual anthropologist, and the other is an institutional ethnomusicological archive. The comparison of historical and current soundscapes brings to the fore anthropological issues regarding how a web of actors—among them sonic activists from academia and these communities—have shaped these archives as a process and practice. It raises questions about collaborative approaches to decolonize repositories, which implies handing over rights to individuals and communities so that they can make decisions about their sonic legacies.

Proteomic and Clinicopathologic Assessment of Penile Amyloidosis: A Single Institutional Review of 12 Cases.

There is a paucity of data on penile amyloidosis. We aimed to assess the frequency of different amyloid types in surgical specimens from the penis involved by amyloidosis and correlate relevant clinicopathologic parameters with proteomic findings. Since 2008, our reference laboratory has performed liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) for amyloid typing. The institutional pathology archive and reference laboratory database were queried to retrospectively identify all penile surgical pathology specimens with LC-MS/MS results between January 1, 2008, and November 23, 2022. Archived H&E-stained and Congo red-stained sections were re-reviewed. Twelve cases of penile amyloidosis were identified, which represented 0.35% (n = 3,456) of penile surgical specimens. AL-type amyloid was most frequent (n = 7), followed by keratin-type amyloid (n = 3) and ATTR (transthyretin)-type amyloid (n = 2). AL-type amyloid cases often showed diffuse dermal/lamina propria deposition, whereas all keratin-type amyloid cases were localized to the superficial dermis. Two cases with keratin-type amyloid had concomitant cutaneous findings (penile intraepithelial neoplasia and condyloma). This series, the largest to date, demonstrates that penile amyloidosis has a heterogeneous proteomic landscape. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study describing ATTR (transthyretin)-type penile amyloid.

Representing women across the public/private divide: Kerstin Hesselgren’s image in the Swedish digital archives

ABSTRACT It is through archives that private lives become constitutive of public historical memory, and this translation is nowhere more apparent than with highly social objects like the photograph. Photographs have uniquely malleable meanings. According to photographic anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards, these ‘relational objects’ function as mediatory materials, ‘image-objects in sets of relationships that are made meaningful through different forms of apprehension’. Scholars recognize that a photograph’s relational definition undergoes significant alteration when an image moves from the fixity of the physical archive to the networked digital archive. Yet studies illustrating this contextual gap largely avoid questions of gender and politics. This article will examine how one digitised archival photograph of the Swedish politician Kerstin Hesselgren functions as a relational object mediating between definitions of public and private, and how this mediation travels (or not) across three digital environments with varying degrees of connection to traditional archival institutions and practices.

Effects of low pay on staff performance in Uganda Police Force

Purpose: To examine the effects of low pay on staff performance in the Uganda Police Force with a view to making recommendations. Methodology: The study adopted documentary review as a method of data collection technique in which data is gathered from reports from different sources, journals, magazines, newspapers, institutional archives, reports, and articles that have data linked to the research being undertaken (Creswell, 2014). A documentary review checklist was employed to solicit data related to an examination of the effects of low pay in Uganda Police Force archives. This method was preferred by the researcher over other methods because was able to gain permission to access information from different departments at Police headquarters archives. In addition, using document analysis takes out the personal aspect of the effect a researcher might have on an individual during an interview. Findings: It has been found that low pay is caused by inadequate budget funding the minimum ideal budget the Uganda Police Force requires for policing is Shs 936 billion in 2021/22 to Shs 840.189 billion, Lack of prioritizing of the police budget is estimated to be implemented in the period of five years, Poor Remuneration and Conditions of Service e.g. Social pressures which compel an individual into corrupt practice in order to pay school fees, greed and the thirst for wealth. However, the effects of low pay cause Low morale in personnel work, unstable marriages amongst police officers, bribery to achieve particular positions (posts), drunkardness, Corruption of personnel, and involvement of Police personnel in hiring guns for robbery.

A Pilot Study to Locate Historic Scientific Data in a University Archive

Historic data in analog (or print) format is a valuable resource that is utilized by scientists in many fields. This type of data may be found in various locations on university campuses including offices, labs, storage facilities, and archives. This study investigates whether biological data held in one institutional university archives could be identified, described, and thus made potentially useful for contemporary life scientists. Scientific data was located and approximately half of it was deemed to be of some value to current researchers and about 20% included enough information for the study to be repeated. Locating individual data sets in the collections at the University Archives at the University of Minnesota proved challenging. This preliminary work points to possible ways to move forward to make raw data in university archives collections more discoverable and likely to be reused. It raises questions that can help inform future work in this area.

An encounter with the public archives of Romania. In-between personal family history and collective history

Archives are related to history, memory, and the creation of meaning. In the context of post-communist Romania, getting access to and studying the archives of communism are highly relevant to help us understand the recent history of the region, including those events that a lot of people would like to be/have forgotten. As someone born in 1989, the year of the Revolution and the fall of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, I am looking for my own answers in both state and private archives about the trauma the city of Bucharest suffered during communism, while also wanting to retrace personal family histories. This is an account of my first encounter with the archives of several public institutions and my preliminary observations on them.

The Archives of Saddam Hussein's Baʿth Party and the Politics of Remembering and Forgetting the Baʿthist Era in Iraq

On August 31, 2020, a US military plane returned the archive of the Baʿth Party Regional Command, more commonly known as the Baʿth Party Archive, to Iraq from California, where it had been held by Stanford University's Hoover Institution Library and Archives since 2008. A leftover issue from the 2003 Iraq War, it had been static as a policy matter for years, but appeared on the agenda of the US–Iraq Strategic Dialogue in summer 2020. Mustafa al-Kadhimi's emergence as the compromise choice for prime minister by Iraq's competing factions that May facilitated this development. Kadhimi, a journalist and human rights activist by background, was one of the cofounders with Kanan Makiya of the Iraq Memory Foundation (IMF), a nongovernmental organization that followed in the wake of the US-led invasion in 2003 as a US Department of Defense contractor. The origins of this relationship dated to the aftermath of the 1990–91 Gulf War. Shortly after arriving in Iraq in 2003, and responding to the rumor that looters were headed toward the mausoleum and museum of Baʿth Party founder Michel ʿAflaq, Kadhimi and Makiya by chance discovered the Baʿth Party Archive underneath the structure, which was adjacent to the Baʿth Party's headquarters in Baghdad.

Pameran Arsip Virtual pada Lembaga Kearsipan sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Penjangkauan Kearsipan: Studi Kasus di Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia

This research discusses the holding of virtual archives exhibitions as an effort to increase archival outreach at the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI) as an archival institution and relevant to ANRI's function in managing archives (historical value archives). The purpose of this study is to describe the holding of a virtual archives exhibition by ANRI as an effort to increase archival outreach by ANRI. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study method, data collection is carried out by making observations, interviews, and document analysis. Data gathering of this study was conducted from February 2021 to May 2022. The results of this study show that the holding of a virtual archive exhibition at ANRI as an innovation in archives management supported by policies in regulating the stages of organizing, managing exhibition resources, collaboration and sustainability of virtual archive exhibitions will support efforts to increase archival outreach. The virtual archives exhibition is held in accordance with ANRI's vision and mission in managing archives as a collective memory and national identity by utilizing social media platforms websites, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. With the use of social media in organizing a virtual archive exhibition by ANRI, it can reach a wider range of archives users.

Defying description: searching for queer history in institutional archives

There are numerous obstacles to overcome when conducting queer historical research. While has been a steady increase in work to address the (in)visibility of queer histories and perspectives in institutional heritage collections, this work is often skewed towards outputs such as exhibitions or social media posts. As a result, very little work has been done to interrogate and transform the ways that these materials are managed and made accessible (or not). This paper considers how the lack of rich and explicit descriptive metadata shapes the (in)visibility and (in)accessibility of queer records within institutional archives. It reports the findings of a series of qualitative interviews I conducted with individuals who have searched for queer materials in archival collections in Australia. These interviews explored the practical process of searching for queer records in institutional archives; how researchers identify, locate, and access these records; and the challenges of this process—both in terms of a research methodology, and an experience for queer researchers within potentially hostile or unsafe spaces.

Automation of Genealogical Records at the National Archives of Zimbabwe

The emergence of automated systems created tremendous opportunities for access promotion in archival institutions throughout the globe. Genealogical research at the National Archives of Zimbabwe (NAZ) has been boosted by technological access systems conveyed by the FamilySearch organisation. Public archivists in national archival institutions must adopt digital finding aids to facilitate effective and efficient retrieval mechanisms in this green revolution epoch. The transition from traditional retrieval tools, which include card catalogues, inventories and guides, to digital finding aids has provided greater opportunities for genealogists to search large databases for information. Genealogists or family historians are major users of the archival collection, and archival institutions should take advantage of best practices brought in by technology to create flawless access systems. The researcher used a qualitative case study methodology with an interpretivist perspective where the main focus of the research was on the head office of the NAZ in Harare. Interviews, document analysis and observations were used as the major data collecting tools. The results show the NAZ automated a few classes of genealogical records, including deceased estate records, and is yet to automate immigration, chieftainship and census returns records, which are also crucial in family history research. The study recommends the adoption of the best of both worlds, which involves automation and digitisation of all family history records to facilitate effective and efficient service delivery to genealogists.

An automatic analysis framework for FDOPA PET neuroimaging

In this study we evaluate the performance of a fully automated analytical framework for FDOPA PET neuroimaging data, and its sensitivity to demographic and experimental variables and processing parameters. An instance of XNAT imaging platform was used to store the King’s College London institutional brain FDOPA PET imaging archive, alongside individual demographics and clinical information. By re-engineering the historical Matlab-based scripts for FDOPA PET analysis, a fully automated analysis pipeline for imaging processing and data quantification was implemented in Python and integrated in XNAT. The final data repository includes 892 FDOPA PET scans organized from 23 different studies. We found good reproducibility of the data analysis by the automated pipeline (in the striatum for the Kicer: for the controls ICC = 0.71, for the psychotic patients ICC = 0.88). From the demographic and experimental variables assessed, gender was found to most influence striatal dopamine synthesis capacity (F = 10.7, p < 0.001), with women showing greater dopamine synthesis capacity than men. Our automated analysis pipeline represents a valid resourse for standardised and robust quantification of dopamine synthesis capacity using FDOPA PET data. Combining information from different neuroimaging studies has allowed us to test it comprehensively and to validate its replicability and reproducibility performances on a large sample size.