“The past has no unambiguous meaning, and nowhere is this clearer than in the archives.”
Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives
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"When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness."
George Orwell, 1984.
When I began building digital collections in Omeka, it was an opportunity to develop my skills in using metadata elements and controlled vocabularies while also getting hands-on experience with digita...
What exactly are archives? Laura Millar (2004) reminds us that archives are “defined not by their form but by their purpose”. An archive isn’t simply a stack of yellowing papers or a digital...
Libraries, archives, and records institutions play a vital role in shaping society’s relationship with the past. As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to evolve, they are transforming ...
As digital media creation continues at breakneck speed, cultural organisations holding heritage audiovisual material search for viable solutions to preserve and manage valuable records, often held in ...
Local and community archives hold rare and irreplaceable audio assets, yet their preservation for future generations can be a challenge. In the past, integrating audio archives into a digital asset ma...
Blockchain technology is poised to influence archives in significant ways over the next ten years, especially in areas related to authenticity, access control, preservation, and provenance tracki...
Web 3.0, often described as the ‘semantic web’, utilises technologies like the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to enable systems to capture and encode data in natural language (Burke, 2019; Cambr...
For a Masters’ project on website design and accessibility analysis I examined the website for the Dardalis Archives of the Hellenic Diaspora held at La Trobe University. Despite the&n...
State-wide library management systems (LMS) have been successfully implemented in Queensland and South Australia. In Queensland, TAFE, local council, and rural libraries are independently connected by...
With one in five Australians living with a print disability, the deployment of assistive technologies in the information services sector is vital to ensure equal access to information. Print disabilit...