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Archival dignity, colonial records and community narratives
The archival memory of the Caribbean is built on the documentary legacies of colonialism. From slave registers to plantation deeds, the shelves of...
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The perpetual twilight of records: consentful recordkee** as moral defence
In this article, we examine the significance of establishing participatory and consentful recordkee** practice in the face of ubiquitous use of...
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Motivations for personal recordkee** practices: the roles of personal factors, recordkee** literacy and the affordances of records
Why do individuals create and keep records? Little research has been done into the factors that motivate individuals to make records. This article...
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Archiving difficult realities: a systematic investigation of records related to sexual violence in US college and university archives
There is no clear guidance or standards for US campus archivists on how to best describe records that contain information on sexual violence. While...
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Record DNA: reconceptualising digital records as the future evidence base
A major issue facing society is the extent to which the usability of the digital evidence base is at risk because, in the digital era, the concept of...
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The representation of NARA’s INS records in Ancestry’s database portal
This article discusses the representation of NARA’s INS Records in Ancestry’s database portal. Ancestry, the world’s largest and most popular online...
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Classified records and the archives
Records designated as classified at the time of their creation form a very significant part of public records produced by state and public...
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“Humans and records are entangled”: empathic engagement and emotional response in archivists
There is growing awareness in archival communities that working with records that contain evidence of human pain and suffering can result in...
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Caring records: professional insights into child-centered case note recording
The consequences of poorly processed reports of child abuse and neglect, along with governance challenges in child protection systems, are...
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Records of neglect: the significance of archives in redress processes
In 2005, a Swedish television documentary that revealed gross misconduct and abuse in Swedish children’s homes led to a number of inquiries that...
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The shifting significance of child endowment records at the National Archives of Australia
The records in the collection of National Archives of Australia (NAA) relating to child endowment payments demonstrate how the status and...
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Retrieval, Restoration, and Predicament Objects, Memories and Records in Wartime
This chapter documents the research process for the work of the same title, The Retrieval, Restoration, and Predicament (2018–2020), and reflects on...
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Applying Records in Contexts in Portugal: the case of the scientific correspondence from António de Barros Machado and Dora Lustig archive
The scientific exchange correspondence of the Dundo Museum Biology Laboratory (Angola), included in the archive of António de Barros Machado...
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Khmer Rouge archives: appropriation, reconstruction, neo-colonial exploitation and their implications for the reuse of the records
The Khmer Rouge archives that are now held by the Documentation Center of Cambodia in Phnom Penh are not the same archives as the ones that were...
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Public versus private status of records and archives: implications for access drawn from the archives of political representatives in the United States, France and Germany
The basic prerequisite for records, archives and information to be open to the public one day is that their own status must be public. Selected...
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Closure periods for access to public records and archives. Comparative-historical analysis
The article examines the application of closure periods for access to public records and archives, their development in some illustrative countries...
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Rival records management models in an era of partial automation
Two rival records management models emerged during the 1990s. Duranti’s model involved moving records out of business applications into a repository...
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The societal embeddedness of records: teaching the meaning of the fourth dimension of the Records Continuum Model in different cultural contexts
The Continuum concept of pluralisation is often misunderstood. This paper aims to explain how records are embedded in the society that created them...
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Digital records as relational objects–Yuk Hui’s concept of digital objects applied to archival science
The writings of Yuk Hui, bringing together both technical and philosophical insights, present a new way of dealing with the digital. The aim of this...