On archival pluralism: what religious pluralism (and its critics) can teach us about archives

Caswell, Michelle

doi:10.1007/s10502-012-9197-y

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“…In this instance, the group's identity is formulated and regulated by an outside body, the Archive, with no writing or scholarship as of the writing of this paper about the potential to include community members in this designation process. This paper situates a collective process of negotiating a Designated Community between an archive and its consumers within progressive work in archive, library, and museum practices (Boast, ; PACG ; Caswell, ).…”

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The power of imaginary users: Designated communities in the OAIS reference model

Bettivia

2016

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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This paper explores the Designated Community term within the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. Information practitioners, particularly those who work with varied populations and popular materials such as public-or state-sponsored libraries and museums, complain that this term is counter to their professional, ethical, and legal mandates to serve many types of user. Using interview data from digital preservation practitioners and scholars as well as interview data from OAIS authors, the author examines the meaning and history behind this term and what it prescribes for professional digital preservation practice. This work juxtaposes contentions of digital preservation practitioners with explanations provided by the authors of OAIS about the Designated Community term. The findings in this paper support the author's contention that alternative digital preservation models and metrics are necessary within cultural heritage institutions, like libraries and museums, to meet the professional standards of practice in those areas and to ensure the inclusion of broad populations within the user bases of digital repositories.

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The power of imaginary users: Designated communities in the OAIS reference model

Bettivia

2016

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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“…Questions problematizing the definition and description of records (Conway, forthcoming;Duff & Harris, 2002;MacNeil, 2005;Millar, 2002;Yakel, 2003), the construction of their identity (Rowat, 1993;Trace, 2002;Yeo, 2010), their contextual aspects (McKemmish & Piggott, 2013;Nesmith, 2006), their temporal aspects (K. Brothman, 2006;Cumming, 2010;Meehan, 2006Meehan, , 2009Upward, 1996Upward, , 2009, and their custodial communities (Bastian, 2002;Caswell, 2013;Christen, 2012;Huvila, 2008) have become endemic within the archival field, leading Upward and colleagues (2013) to lament that "we cannot reliably say what a record as a thing is as our conceptual understanding of it blurs into data, documents, information, the archive, and the plurality of archives. .…”

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An Illustrated Introduction to the Infosphere

Martens¹

2015

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This introduction to Luciano Floridi's philosophy of information (PI) provides a short overview of Floridi's work and its reception by the library and information studies (LIS) community, brief definitions of some important PI concepts, and illustrations of Floridi's three suggested applications of PI to library and information studies. It suggests that LIS may just be as important to PI as PI is to LIS in terms of deepening our mutual understanding of information ontologies, the dynamics of informational domains, and the variety of evolving relationships among information organisms and information objects.

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“….power is always central." 36 In fact libraries and archives continue to struggle with the inclusion of a variety of voices. A recent study from the Pluralizing the Archival Curriculum Group of The Archival Education and Research Institute states that, "While one can identify various excellent organizationally sponsored initiatives, there is no evidence that the archival field as a whole has contemplated the implications of working in such partnerships with communities."…”

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TRANSforming Spaces: Transgender Webcomics as a Model for Transgender Empowerment and Representation within Library and Archive Spaces

Hatfield¹

2015

Queer Cats Journal of LGBTQ Studies

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On archival pluralism: what religious pluralism (and its critics) can teach us about archives

Cited by 14 publications

References 18 publications

The power of imaginary users: Designated communities in the OAIS reference model

The power of imaginary users: Designated communities in the OAIS reference model

An Illustrated Introduction to the Infosphere

TRANSforming Spaces: Transgender Webcomics as a Model for Transgender Empowerment and Representation within Library and Archive Spaces

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