Local archives and community collecting in the digital age

Ormond-Parker, Lyndon; Sloggett, Robyn

doi:10.1007/s10502-011-9154-1

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“…Digital technologies have a significant role to play. Ormond-Parker and Sloggett have looked at some of the ways in which technology supports Aboriginal empowerment with regard to cultural heritage [68], and museum documentation systems have the potential to contribute to this broader shift.…”

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Collections in the Expanded Field: Relationality and the Provenance of Artefacts and Archives

Jones

2019

Heritage

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In 2017 archaeological evidence was published which indicates that modern humans first arrived in Australia around 65,000 years ago. Through the countless generations since, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples built deep connections to the landscape, developed rich material culture infused with story and myth, and used oral and ceremonial traditions to transmit knowledge over thousands of years. Yet, since European invasion at the end of the eighteenth century, the provenance of ethnographic and institutional collections has largely been documented with reference to white collectors and colonial institutions. Attitudes are starting to change. Recent decades have seen significant moves away from the idea of the authoritative institution toward relational museums and the co-creation of knowledge. But the structure and content of much museum documentation continues to lag behind contemporary attitudes. This paper looks at the documentation of Australian ethnographic and anthropological collections through the lens of changing perspectives on provenance, including archival notions of parallel and societal provenance. When placed in the context of recent developments in material culture theory, these collections help to highlight the limitations of existing documentation. The paper concludes with a call for community involvement and a more relational approach to documentation which better encompasses the complexities of provenance and the entangled institutional, archival, oral, and community perspectives that accumulate around artefacts in museums.Heritage 2019, 2 885 artefacts in particular, documented provenance often starts with collection by Australian, European, or American anthropologists and expeditions rather than with the names or stories of those who designed, manufactured, or used the item. This paper explores the broad concept of provenance in the context of museum collections and archival records, drawing on archival theory, museological and curatorial investigations into the 'relational museum,' and case studes from the history of collecting in Australia. 'Provenance' is here viewed as one element in an expanded relational field [3] of description which can (and should) contain other possibilities for the theory and practice of museum documentation. In doing so, museums can better reflect complex, entangled histories, and the multiple contexts and knowledge systems that surround artefacts and other collection items.As a white academic I do not write on behalf of Indigenous Australia. With hundreds of communities speaking more than 250 langauges, the Australian continent contains a huge diversity of cultures and perspectives, including many different attitudes towards museums, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. Here I argue that those of us embedded in European institutions must not assume we have the experience, or the right, to make decisions regarding provenance, knowledge, and the representation of First Nations artefacts and ideas. Instead, we must critique existing practi...

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Collections in the Expanded Field: Relationality and the Provenance of Artefacts and Archives

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2019

Heritage

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“…Other prominent examples of autonomous Indigenous collections in Australia include the Mulka Project hosted by the Buku Larrngay Art Centre in northeast Arnhem Land (discussed, alongside other initiatives, in Ormond-Parker and Sloggett, 2012). These operate alongside a host of other local solutions established in remote communities to share ad hoc hybrid digital collections, hosted by community infrastructure typically provided by schools, art centers, and language centers.…”

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Sharing and storing digital cultural records in Central Australian Indigenous communities

Vaarzon‐Morel¹,

Barwick

Green

2021

New Media & Society

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This article considers how Indigenous peoples in Central Australia share and keep digital records of events and cultural knowledge in a period of rapid technological change. To date, research has focused upon the development of digital archives and platforms that reflect Indigenous epistemologies and incorporation of protocols governing access to information. Yet there is scant research on how individuals with little access to such media share and hold—or not, as the case may be—digital cultural information. After surveying current enabling infrastructures in Central Australia, we examine how materials are held and shared when people do not have easy access to databases and the Internet. We analyze examples of practices of sharing materials to draw out issues that arise in managing storage and circulation of cultural records via Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drives, mobile phones, and other devices. We consider how the affordances of various platforms support, extend, and/or challenge Indigenous socialities and ontologies.

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“…Kod ten odnosił się do tej tematyki w szerokim rozumieniu, zawierając również informacje na temat archiwów społecznościowych, społeczności, ruchów społecznych (wszystko, co może mieścić się w "parasolowym terminie" community archive). Przykładowe tematy artykułów: możliwości oraz zagrożenia, z którymi borykają się cyfrowe archiwa rdzennych mieszkańców Australii 46 , rola oddolnych archiwów w doświadczonej ludobójstwem Rwandzie 47 , badania etnograficzne archiwum gejów i lesbijek w Kolumbii Brytyjskiej 48 .…”

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Czasopismo „Archival Science” w latach 2011–2020 – analiza treści artykułów naukowych

Wiśniewska-Drewniak¹

2020

Archeion

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The Archival Science journal in the years 2011–2020 – an analysis of research papers Archival Science is currently the most important archive journal, published in English since 2001. The aim of this article is to analyse articles published in that journal in the years 2011–2020. Four types of issues were analysed: the authors’ affiliations, geographical characteristics of articles, research methods and the subject of the published texts. As a result, it was noted that authors of articles come mostly from English-speaking countries (which confirms the trend from the years 2001–2010, studied by Eric Ketelaar in 2010) and when the subject of an article focuses on a specific geographical area, it concerns English-speaking countries as well. It was observed that many research articles do not present specific research methods and those that do mention not only traditional methods, such as archival research and a literature review, but also methods characteristic of social sciences (e.g. an interview, observation, survey). Ten most popular subjects described in the analysed texts include: digital issues, the underprivileged, state archives and documentation, the history of archives, human rights, decolonisation, ethics, preparing archival materials, social archives, the profession of an archivist and documentation manager.

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Local archives and community collecting in the digital age

Cited by 36 publications

References 12 publications

Collections in the Expanded Field: Relationality and the Provenance of Artefacts and Archives

Collections in the Expanded Field: Relationality and the Provenance of Artefacts and Archives

Sharing and storing digital cultural records in Central Australian Indigenous communities

Czasopismo „Archival Science” w latach 2011–2020 – analiza treści artykułów naukowych

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