Category: Journals

Special Issue, Internet Archaeology: Digital Archiving in Archaeology: The State of the Art II

This issue of Internet Archaeology is jointly sponsored by COST Action SEADDA (CA18128) (funded by the European Union) and the European Archaeological Consilium (EAC).

Also see: Digital Archiving in Archaeology: The State of the Art (2021). Issue 58

Archaeological Data Archiving in Croatia

Filomena Sirovica and Ivan Radman-Livaja

Cite this as: Sirovica, F. and Radman-Livaja, I. 2023 Archaeological Data Archiving in Croatia, Internet Archaeology 63. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.63.1

The State of the Art of Digital Archiving in Romania­

Marius Streinu and Bogdan Șandric

Cite this as: Streinu, M. and Șandric, B. 2023 The State of the Art of Digital Archiving in Romania, Internet Archaeology 63. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.63.2

Digital Archaeology in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Current State and Future Challenges

Meliha Handzic and Ivana Pandzic

Cite this as: Handzic, M. and Pandzic, I. 2023 Digital Archaeology in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Current State and Future Challenges, Internet Archaeology 63. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.63.3

Developing Access to Digital Archaeology Data Resources in Ireland

Anthony Corns, John O’Keeffe and Rónán Swan

Cite this as: Corns, A., O’Keefe, J. and Swan, R. 2023 Developing Access to Digital Archaeology Data Resources in Ireland, Internet Archaeology 63. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.63.4

The State of the Art of Digital Archiving for Archaeology in Cyprus

Valentina Vassallo, Luciarita Nunziata, Maria Makri, Aspasia Soula Georgiadou and Sorin Hermon

Cite this as: Vassallo, V., Nunziata, L., Makri, M., Georgiadou, A.S., Hermon, S. 2023 The State of the Art of Digital Archiving for Archaeology in Cyprus, Internet Archaeology 63. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.63.5

Archiving Digital Archaeological Data – Evaluation of a Survey in Germany

Reiner Göldner, David Bibby and Henriette Senst

Cite this as: Göldner, R, Bibby, D. and Senst, H. 2023 Archiving Digital Archaeological Data – Evaluation of a Survey in Germany, Internet Archaeology 63. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.63.6

Digital Archaeological Archiving Policies and Practice in Europe: the EAC call for action

David Novák, Agnieszka Oniszczuk and Barbara Gumbert

Cite this as: Novák, D., Oniszczuk, A. and Gumbert, B. 2023 Digital Archaeological Archiving Policies and Practice in Europe: the EAC call for action, Internet Archaeology 63. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.63.7

Understanding Data Reuse and Barriers to Reuse of Archaeological Data. A quality-in-use methodological approach

Kristy-Lee Seaton, Rimvydas Laužikas, Peter McKeague, Vera Moitinho de Almeida, Keith May and Holly Wright

Cite this as: Seaton, K-L., Laužikas, R., McKeague, P., Moitinho de Almeida, V., May, K. and Wright, H. 2023 Understanding Data Reuse and Barriers to Reuse of Archaeological Data. A quality-in-use methodological approach, Internet Archaeology 63. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.63.8

Call for Submissions: Collaborative Librarianship

Countering Weaponized Tradition: Libraries and Archives Using Collaboration and Tradition as a Catalyst for Progress

Guest edited by Erin Renee Wahl and Arlene Schmuland

A lot has been written on the benefits of understanding the history and traditions of organizations when you join the team, but not a lot has been written on the ways history and tradition can be used to affect an organization negatively, or what actual tangible progress comes from understanding this history and using it to instigate positive change. This special issue seeks to open a dialogue that might offer a broader, honest perspective of progress informed by organizational history and traditions in libraries and archives. This issue will explore how librarians or archivists have taken institutional history and tradition and pivoted the narrative towards progressive changes. A relevant topic even prior to 2020, the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic showed libraries and archives where their organizations were weakest and has left even the strongest organizations wondering how to leverage tradition for future diversification…and who else to bring into the process. In addition, library and archives employees who were already taxed by the tough realities of work are now asking more serious questions about their work environments and wondering how to leverage traditions and collaborations to create a more progressive work environment.

Some topics you might want to consider include:

  • How do you create buy-in in your library/archives/department to change legacy practices?
  • What pre-COVID traditions has your library/archives shifted as you return to normal? What led you to make this change?
  • What assessment methods do you use to inform shifting traditional practices? Where is your change originating from?
  • How do you encourage new librarians and staff members to utilize their expertise to implement change?
  • Legacy and tradition are not necessarily bad. What legacy practices have you deliberately maintained and why? What led you to this decision?
  • How do you create balance between legacy practices and progressive momentum?
  • It’s not just about planning for shifts: almost every practice shift requires significant labor to achieve. Whether that’s temporary work or changing existing workloads: how have you managed the labor costs of practice changes?
  • How do you work flexibility for change into strategic planning and core library documents?
  • And any other topics you think might be relevant to this!

Don’t forget the collaborative focus…

In keeping with the overall focus of the journal Collaborative Librarianship, all proposals and articles must focus on collaborative approaches to changing weaponized traditions. These approaches will have utilized cooperation between multiple departments, organizations, libraries, archives, etc. rather than an approach handled by single entities. Collaborating entities can be from the same institution but it must be made clear how this cooperation entailed working outside of what departments, etc. have done in the past, and what is “typical” in our field. In addition, we hope to prioritize articles written by co-authors in different libraries, archives, departments, and other disciplines who did this work together.

Please make sure you familiarize yourself with what Collaborative Librarianship prefers to publish by perusing recently published issues and visiting these webpages:

Authors should submit proposals or fully finished articles using the form and instructions to the guest editors via this link: https://forms.gle/QPC1GxbhKe1c5sfo8

CFP: Special Libraries, Special Challenges Column of Public Services Quarterly

Call for Submissions 

The “Special Libraries, Special Challenges” column of Public Services Quarterly is currently seeking submissions that explore all aspects of working in a special library. Each piece is approximately 2,000 words and focuses on practical ideas rather than theory. Case studies are welcome.  

Column Description 

“Special Libraries, Special Challenges” is a column dedicated to exploring the unique public services challenges that arise in libraries that specialize in a particular subject, such as law, medicine, business, and so forth. In each column, authors will discuss public service issues and solutions that arise specifically in special libraries.

Potential Article Topics

  • Impact of tourism on librarianship/collections that attract “fan” researchers
  • Profile of libraries/archives at professional organizations
  • Profile of libraries supporting the work in various branches of government   
  • Rebuilding library services and facilities after a building disaster (fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, etc.)
  • Innovative pilot projects 
  • Developing programs for students and/or faculty
  • Professional and continuing development for library staff
  • AI and library services
  • Emerging trends, such as empirical research, data analytics and alt-metrics 
  • Teaching various literacies (information, media, technology, etc.) 
  • Other ideas welcomed!  

Contact 

Special or subject-matter librarians interested in authoring a piece for this column are invited to contact the co-editors, Patti Gibbons (pgibbons@uchicago.edu) or Deborah Schander (deborah.schander@ct.gov).   

New Issue: IASA Journal

Issue 53 of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal
open access

Editorial
Jennifer Vaughn

A Letter from IASA’s President
Tre Berney

Indigenous Voices and the Archive; Recirculating J. H. Hutton’s Cylinder Recordings in Nagaland
Christian Poske

Identification and Assessment of Film Appraisal Mechanisms Aimed at the Improvement of Archiving and Presentation Processes
Bohuš Získal

Listening With/in Context: Towards Multiplicity, Diversity, and Collaboration in Digital Sound Archives
Emily Collins

Ethics of Sound Quality in Online Teaching, Learning and Conferencing: Perspectives Gained During the Covid Pandemic
Ahmad Faudzi Musib, Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda, Gisa Jähnichen, Xiao Mei

New Issue: American Archivist

American Archivist vol. 86 no. 1

FROM THE EDITOR
Mirror, Mirror
Amy Cooper Cary

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
“Show? To Who?”
Courtney Chartier

A*CENSUS II
A*CENSUS II Building a Baseline of Archival Data with A*CENSUS II
Jennifer Gunter King; Beth Myers

A*CENSUS II: All Archivists Survey Report
Makala Skinner; Ioana G. Hulbert

ARTICLES
“Sometimes I feel like they hate us”: The Society of American Archivists and Graduate Archival Education in the Twenty-first Century
Alex H. Poole; Ashley Todd-Diaz

The Academic Enclosure of American Archivist
Eira Tansey

College and University Archivists: Doing It All for Less
Michelle Sweetser; Tamar Chute; Elizabeth James; Jane LaBarbara; Krista Oldham

Adapting for Distance: A Perspective on Team-based Archival Processing during a Pandemic
Sarah Jones; Ryan DiPaolo

REVIEWS
Archives in Conversation
Rose Buchanan; Stephanie Luke

What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom
Sara Lyons Davis

Engaging Undergraduates in Primary Source Research
Kayla Harris

Exhibiting the Archive: Space, Encounter, and Experience
Claire Du Laney

Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS
Marissa Friedman

Rescued from Oblivion: Historical Cultures in the Early United States
Amber Glen

Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries
Heather Mulliner

Cultural Humility
Jessica Tai

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science Volume 23, issue 3, September 2023
partial open access

National archives, national memory? How national archives describe themselves and their mission
Reine Rydén

Recordkeeping, logistics, and translation: a study of homeless services systems as infrastructure
Pelle Tracey, Patricia Garcia, Ricardo Punzalan

Attitudes and uses of archival materials among science-based anthropologists
Diana E. Marsh, Selena St. Andre…Joshua A. Bell

Origin stories and the shaping of the community-based archives
Jamie A. Lee, Bianca Finley Alpera, ems emswiler

Record DNA: reconceptualising digital records as the future evidence base
Julie McLeod, Elizabeth Lomas

Defying description: searching for queer history in institutional archives
Elliot Freeman

Documenting resistance, conflict and violence: a scoping review of the role of participatory digital platforms in the mobilisation of resistance
Kirsty Fife, Andrew Flinn, Julianne Nyhan

New Issue: Comma

Comma, Vol. 2021, No. 2, July 2023
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Introduction
Amy Tector, Jörg Ludwig and Frans Smit

气象档案在气象发展史中的角色转变及发展趋势
于 晨

Sunspot observations and glacier images. Archival research
partnerships focusing on modern climate research
Michael Gasser, Nicole Graf and Christian John Huber

Redrawing historical weather data and participatory archives for the
future
Gordon Burr, Lori Podolsky and Yves A. Lapointe

The challenge of archiving the global modern wind energy sector
Kolya Abramsky, Stefan Gsänger and Elizabeth Bartram

The training of archivists and access to information about the
environment and the Amazon in Brazil*
Mônica Tenaglia, Georgete Medleg Rodrigues, Iane Maria da Silva
Batista and Gilberto Gomes Cândido

No man is an island entire of itself:* Legal frameworks and the
relocation of a nation’s archive due to rising sea levels
Anna Woodham and Matthew Gordon-Clark

Assess increased flooding on the archiving system of the South African
National Parks, South Africa
Sidney Netshakhuma and Itumeleng Khadambi

Cambio Climático y Archivos de Derechos Humanos en Brasil y Chile:
recomendaciones y propuestas desde América Latina
Claudio Ogass Bilbao and Francisco González Villanueva

Climate change, copyright, and archives
Jean Dryde

Coûts écologiques de nos pratiques archivistiques
Aurèle Nicolet and Basma Makhlouf Shabou

 

New Issue: Records Management Journal

Records Management Journal, Volume 33 Issue 1
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An assessment of human resource capabilities in supporting digital records preservation: a case of RAMD and RITA, Tanzania
Jacquiline Daniel, Faraja Ndumbaro

A framework of open government data (OGD) e-service quality dimensions with future research agenda
Charalampos Alexopoulos, Stuti Saxena, Nina Rizun, Deo Shao

Pandemic recordkeeping – the New Zealand experience
Seren Wendelken

Influence of employees’ perceptions of the uses and security of human resource records on employees’ attitude toward human resource records
Raphael Papa Kweku Andoh, Rebecca Dei Mensah, Stephen Tetteh, Georgina Nyantakyiwaa Boampong, Kofi Adom-Nyankey, Bernice Asare

Working from home: the experience of records management professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ragna Kemp Haraldsdottir, Fiorella Foscarini, Charles Jeurgens, Pekka Henttonen, Gillian Oliver, Seren Wendelken, Viviane Frings-Hessami

Digitization of Indigenous knowledge systems in Africa: the case of South Africa’s National Recorded System (NRS)
Tolulope Balogun

CFP: Journal of Open Humanities Data

Call for Papers for 2023

The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) features peer-reviewed publications describing humanities research objects with high potential for reuse. These might include curated resources like (annotated) linguistic corpora, ontologies, and lexicons, as well as databases, maps, atlases, linked data objects, and other data sets created with qualitative, quantitative, or computational methods, including large language model prompts and prompt engineering strategies.

We are currently inviting submissions of two varieties:

  1. Short data papers contain a concise description of a humanities research object with high reuse potential. These are short (1,000 words) highly structured narratives. A data paper does not replace a traditional research article, but rather complements it.
  2. Full length research papers discuss and illustrate methods, challenges, and limitations in humanities research data creation, collection, management, access, processing, or analysis. These are intended to be longer narratives (3,000 – 5,000 words), which give authors the ability to contribute to a broader discussion regarding the creation of research objects or methods.

Humanities subjects of interest to the JOHD include, but are not limited to Art History, Classics, History, Library Science, Linguistics, Literature, Media Studies, Modern Languages, Music and musicology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, etc. Research that crosses one or more of these traditional disciplinary boundaries is highly encouraged. Authors are encouraged to publish their data in recommended repositories. More information about the submission process, editorial policies and archiving is available on the journal’s web pages.

Submissions are still open for our special collection, Humanities Data in the Time of COVID-19. This collection includes data papers that span various areas of enquiry about the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the Humanities. Data from this period have far-reaching and impactful reuse potential, so we encourage you to share your data by submitting to this growing collection. JOHD provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

We accept online submissions via our journal website. See Author Guidelines for further information. Alternatively, please contact the editor if you are unsure as to whether your research is suitable for submission to the journal.

Authors remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons licence agreement.

CFP: Archival Science Special Issue on Provenance

Guest Editors:

Jeannette A. Bastian, Professor Emerita, Simmons University
Stanley H. Griffin, Senior Lecturer, University of the West Indies
James Lowry, Associate Professor, Queens College

Open call for abstracts

A new wave of theorizing the concept of “provenance” (for example; provenance in place, crip provenance, whiteness as provenance, provenancial fabulation, de-colonizing provenance) suggests that the archival field continues to explore and re-interpret both the affordances and inadequacies of what is generally considered a foundational principle (Ghaddar 2022, pp.49-86; Brilmyer 2022, pp.1-25; Lowry 2022; Lapp 2023, pp.117-136; Aarons et. al 2022).

With its roots in early nineteenth century European archival practice, provenance has undergone successive re-interpretations through the late 20th and into the early 21st centuries. In 1993, Tom Nesmith’s groundbreaking publication, Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance  (Nesmith 1993) not only re-awakened a recognition of provenance as the fundamental archival principle but presciently suggested that provenance will continue to evolve not only as a principle but as an interpretive lens.

These successive re-interpretations have moved provenance from the literal to the conceptual. Each step has contributed to the ambiguity of provenance but at the same time deepened and enriched archival representation and use by expanding the meanings and values contained in records. Today provenance can be understood “not so much as a method for organizing records, but as an intellectual construct created through the archivists’ analysis of the numerous relationships that exist between records, creators and functions” (Douglas 2017, p.33).

Such a definition invites creative application and interpretation.

In this special issue of Archival Science, the guest editors welcome articles that both reflect the current state of provenance and also push the boundaries, and that play with, criticize or de/re-construct “provenance”.

Possible topics include:

  • Decentering provenance as a key archival precept: what other ways of organizing and contextualizing records present themselves when we set aside inherited understandings of the centrality of provenance?
  • Historical or contemporary studies that surface non-Western ways of organizing and contextualizing archives or thinking about provenance.
  • Provenance’s interpretive possibilities: what meanings are made or obscured when different lenses are used to understand archives? How interpreting records through different provenances re-orients their meaning. (for example; through the lens of social justice, Indigenous communities, community archives, the records continuum, social history, gender, minoritized populations).
  • Provenance in different formats (for example: photographs, film, digital and analogue artifacts, oral records, manuscripts, institutional records, storytelling, social media) and what the materiality of records suggests for what is a theoretical construct.
  • Provenance in relationship to other archival functions (for example; appraisal, description, arrangement) and concepts (such as custody, authority, authenticity).
  • Is ‘provenance’ the word? A linguistic reflection on other ways of ascribing creativity, historical, cultural and societal connections to materials of enduring value.
  • Defenses or re-articulations of orthodox interpretations and applications of the concept of provenance.
  • Monetizing provenance? The influences of heritage market demand on questions of authenticity, origin, ownership and profitability of claiming, collecting, and owning archives.

Key dates

Abstract Submission deadline: August 20, 2023
Notification of acceptance of Abstracts: September 15, 2023
Article Submission deadline: December 31, 2023
Review time: January – June 2024

Submission Instructions

Abstracts (500–1,000 words) and a short bio (200 words) should be emailed to the guest editors at jbastian6@gmail.com by August 20, 2023. The editors will notify authors whether their abstract is or is not accepted by September 15, 2023. Authors whose abstracts are accepted should submit their full paper for peer review by December 31, 2023.

Acceptance of an abstract does not imply ultimate acceptance of the completed paper for publication, as articles for inclusion in the special issue will go through a rigorous peer review process.

• Full paper submissions will be made online via the Archival Science Editorial Manager system. Please select article type “SI: Provenance” upon submission of the full paper.

• Authors are encouraged to follow the journal suggestion for papers not to exceed 7,000-8,000 words and are expected to conform to the journal’s publication guideline

References

Aarons J et al. (eds) (2022) Archiving Caribbean identity, records, community and memory. Routledge, London

Brilmyer G (2022) Toward a crip provenance: centering disability in archives through its absence. J Contemporary Arch Stud 9:1-25

Douglas J (2017) Origins and beyond. In: MacNeil H & Eastwood T (eds.) Currents of Archival Thinking (2nd. ed) Libraries Unlimited, California. pp 25-52

Ghaddar JJ (2022) Provenance in place: crafting the Vienna Convention for global decolonization and archival repatriation. In: Lowry J (ed.) Disputed Archival Heritage. Routledge, London, pp 49-86

Lapp J (2023) ‘The only way we know how’: provenancial fabulation in archives of feminist materials. Arch Sci 23:117-136  

Lowry J (2022) Whiteness as provenance. Provenance in Place Symposium, Dalhousie University, 7 March 2022

Nesmith T (ed.) (1993)  Canadian archival studies and the rediscovery of provenance. Scarecrow Press, New Jersey