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Volume 2023, Issue 1
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Preface
Forget Chaterera-Zambuko

Guest Editorial
Margaret Crockett

Education and Training/Éducation et Formation
Tatuoca Magnetic Observatory Brazil: Records, Interdisciplinary Work, and AI in the Amazon for Archivists’ Education
Cristian Berrío-Zapata, Cristiano Mendel Martins, Jacquelin Teresa Camperos Reyes, Vinicius Augusto Carvalho de Abreu, Raissa Moraes Baldez, …

Archivistas en los archivos: Normativa sobre reconocimiento técnico-profesional en la región latinoamericana
Carolina Katz

Archivos Comunitarios y Comunidades Patrimoniales: Experiencias y proyecciones educativas del Taller de Archivística Comunitaria para cantores y cantoras “a lo poeta” en la Región de O’Higgins (Chile)
Javiera Montecinos Díaz, Leonardo Cisternas Zamora, Héctor Sancho Reverté, Clemencia González Tugas, and Javier Peña Espinoza

Archives Curriculum in the Global South: A Caribbean Perspective
Stanley H. Griffin, Jeannette A. Bastian, and John A. Aarons

Reaching Equilibrium for Cutting-Edge Content in the Training of Archivists and Records Managers in a Comprehensive Open Distance E-Learning Environment: A “glonacol” Approach
Makutla Mojapelo, Mpho Ngoepe, and Lorette Jacobs

A Provenance Pedagogy Exchange Across North and South American Archival Education Programs
Sarah A. Buchanan, Natália Bolfarini Tognoli, and Clarissa Schmidt

The 21st Century Archival Practitioner
Patricia C. Franks

Archivistes tout-terrain: Les chantiers-école d’Archivistes sans Frontières
Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier, Christine Martinez, and Marc Trille

Programa de Formación Archivística de la ALA: Contribuyendo al desarrollo profesional de nuestra comunidad
Anna Szlejcher and Marco Antonio Enríquez Ochoa

Self-Help, History, and Civic Pride: The Origins of Professional Archival Education in England
Margaret Procter

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Comma
Vol. 2022, No. 2, January 2022

This is Just the Beginning: Celebrating the New Professionals
Programme at Ten Years

Nicola Laurent, Cécile Fabris, Oscar Zamora Flores and Margaret
Crockett

L’archiviste, l’étudiant et le recruteur : enquête sur les compétences
requises pour le jeune et nouveau professionnel en 2024

Maryasha Barbé

“You May Think You Are Alone, But You Are Not”: A Personal Statement
on Embracing Failure as Part of Archival Practice

Maria Benauer

Working with the Migrated Archives Working Group at the Centre for
Critical Archives and Records Management Studies at University College
London

Alia Carter

Assessing the Needs of New Professionals in the Archives and Records
Management Fields: A Comparative Analysis Between 2016 and 2022

Gina Maria Chacón Vargas, Janny Sjåholm, Susannah Tindall and Oscar
Zamora Flores

Boussoles et compas, une fabrique du mentorat : une expérience dans un
service d’archives de la recherche en France

Marine Coquet, Nicolas Azam and Elsa Leclaire

Towards an Inclusive Digitisation Strategy: Do Records of Marginalised
Groups Count?

Zoe Dickinson, Elisabeth Klindworth, Francesca Mackenzie, Makutla
Mojapelo and Luz María Narbona

Le chantier-école d’Archivistes sans frontières-France au Burkina Faso
: premiers pas internationaux dans la vie d’une jeune professionnelle
des archives

Anne-Élise Guilbert–Tetart

Every Cook Can Archive

J. C. L. Hettrick

CORE Cultural Learning Modules: Cultural Competence as a Soft Skill

Man-Ting Hsu

Understanding Archival Theory and Ethics: A Foundational Course as
Intervention for Early Career Archivists in Southeast Asia

Jonathan Isip and Iyra Buenrostro-Cabbab

Viewing Archives and Records Management Mentoring through the Prism of
the International Council on Archives’ New Professionals Mentorship
Programme

Makutla Mojapelo and Mahlatse Shekgola

Bringing Together the “Young Archivists” of the State Archives of
Belgium

Bieke Nouws and Stephanie Samyn

From the Programme to the People: The ICA’s New Professionals
Programme Through the Lens of New Professionals

Maria Papanikolaou

Remember How Lonely and Awkward You Felt as a New Professional?

Laura Yturbe Mori and Lerato Tshabalala

2022 Virtual SARBICA Symposium / Symposium virtuel SARBICA 2022 :“The
Drowned and the Saved”: Archives during the 1966 Flood in Florence*1

Elena Gonnelli and Lorenzo Sergi

Sustainability at the National Archives, UK: Where We Are and Where We
Are Heading

Helen Wilson, Juergen Vervoorst and Valerie Johnson

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Comma: Volume 2022 Issue 1
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Implementing the Digital Transfer of Records from Public Institutions: The Experience of the National Archives of Chile
Gabriela Andaur and Pilar Díaz

Linking Archives, Linked Open Data, and the Development of the World-Wide Directory of Repositories Holding Archives of Literature and Art
Elizabeth Bassett, Heather Dean, and David C. Sutton

Addressing Imbalances of the Colonial Heritage at the National Archives of Zimbabwe: Imagining Inclusive Archivy!
Amos Bishi

Not Only Cultural Heritage: The Economic Value of Archives
Lucia Biondi and Debora Chiarelli

Das Sächsische elektronische Kommunalarchiv: Eine Lösung für die Erhaltung der digitalen Kultur der Städte
Paolo Cecconi

European Digital Treasures: A Project to Address the European Archives’ Challenges
Cristina Díaz Martínez, Leonard Callus, and Zoltán Szatucsek

#archivesgateway: The State Archives of Palermo Opens Itself Up to the City
Francesca Di Pasquale, Floriana Giallombardo, Carmen Genovese, and Flora La Sita

Why Archivists Need to Know about Copyright
Jean Dryden

Bridging the Gaps Between Communities and their Memories: Comparing Community-Based Archives in Five Countries
Andrew Flinn, Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak, Mônica Tenaglia, Mengqui Li, and Luisa Seixas

Combler les fossés: quand les archives pallient aux lacunes de la mémoire individuelle
Pierre Flückiger and Anouk Dunant Gonzenbach

Trentino’s Historical Archives Portal: A Tool to “Bridging the Gap”?
Stefania Franzoi and Fiammetta Baldo

Breaking the Library Walls, Bridging the Gap with Generation Next
Vicky Gerontopoulou, Maria Pazarli, and Kostas Diamantis

Connecting the Archives: Collaboration between the National Archives of Japan and Local Archives
Yamatani Hideyuki

Disruption of Academic Archival Practice: A Preliminary Examination of Finding Aids
Lisa Lawlis and Anne Quirk

Federating the Authorities and Training the Employees in Order to Bridge the Digital Gap: The Project “Protocollo Informatico Trentino” (P.I.Tre.)
Annamaria Lazzeri and Carlo Bortoli

European Union, Archives, Rights
Tommaso Maria Rossi

Archives Buildings: Witnesses of the Past, Bridging to Modernity
France Saïe-Belaïsch and Odile Welfelé

A Novel Heterocyclic Fungicide (1, 3, 4-THIADIAZOLO [3, 2-a] PYRIMIDIN-5-ONES) Plays a Vital Role to Inhibit Fungus from Archival Cultural Heritage
Sarvesh Singh

Strengthening the Connections Between the Citizens and the Hellenic Parliament
Iouliani Theodosi

New Perspectives for Access to Archival Heritage in Italy between Privacy, Copyright, and Protection Rules
Silvia Filippin and Mirco Modolo

New Perspectives / Nouvelles Perspectives

Recommendations on Using Artificial Intelligence in Archival Appraisal and Selection
Rebecca Y. Bayeck, Giovanni Colavizza, Jenny Bunn, Mark Bell, and Souvick Ghosh

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

Call for Abstracts: Special Issue of Comma on “Training and Education in Archives and Records Management”

Comma’s Editorial Board plans an edition devoted to the analysis and discussion of training and education in archives and records management around the world. This follows on from the special edition of Comma on “New Professionals in Archives and Records Management”. The abstracts for this demonstrate the importance that new professionals, and those concerned to support them, attach to training and education and their eagerness to critique and discuss their experiences. Training and education play a vital role in developing competent and confident archivists and records managers. Life-long learning and continuing professional development are crucial in both the maintenance of existing and the acquisition of new expertise, skills and knowledge for all individuals in the archives and records management workforce throughout their careers.

ICA’s Train the Trainer Resource Pack defines education as “a systematic kind of instruction or intellectual and moral training designed to give participants a broad and/or deep understanding of the topics covered”. ICA’s Section on Archival Education and Training has a long tradition of international cooperation and support of ICA’s capacity building work. It also provides a forum for archival educators to network and start initiatives on international education and research. The Train the Trainer Pack describes training as “the transfer of knowledge and skills that enable participants to carry out their work”. ICA’s Training Programme, established in 2018, is currently undergoing its first significant review. Its primary goal has been to provide training opportunities and resources for those members in parts of the world without access to education and training. These two ICA entities are collaborating to provide guest editorship of the Comma special issue.

To explore these important topics further, the International Council on Archives’ journal Comma invites abstract submissions for a special issue dedicated to the topic of “Training and Education in Archives and Records Management”. We encourage contributions on:

Training themes and content, training delivery methods and styles
Designing and delivering archives and records management education programmes
Academic curriculum and/or on-the-job training
Comparative surveys of education/training in archives and records management around the world
Artificial intelligence and computational approaches in archival science
Decolonizing archival curricula
Translation and comparison of archives and records management terminology and concepts
Competency frameworks, professional accreditation/certification
Life-long learning and continuing professional development
Developing collaborative international training and education programmes

Articles comparing training and education traditions and cultures around the world are particularly welcome.

The Guest editors welcome articles by:

Trainers and training providers
Educators and academics
Apprentices and trainees
Students and recently qualified professionals
Employers, managers, mentors
Professional associations

The Guest editors especially wish to attract authors from all of ICA’s regions. We also encourage new professionals and first-time authors and are open to expressions of interest and draft abstracts which we are happy to review and discuss via email or virtual meetings prior to a final submission. Note that articles can be peer-reviewed at the request of authors.

Abstracts for articles should include the author’s name(s), the article title, an abstract (of between 250 and 350 words) which describes what the article will be about, together with the main focus, any relevant research, and conclusions. Abstracts should be sent by 1st September, 2023, to Editor-in-Chief for Comma, Bethany Anderson (comma@ica.org), and special issue editors, Margaret Crockett (crockett@ica.org) and Andrew Flinn (a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk). Authors submitting abstract proposals will be notified during the first week in October.

If accepted, articles can be up to 6,000 words but may be less if appropriate to the subject matter. The deadline for submitting the full article is 1st February 2024. Comma welcomes submissions in any of the seven languages of the journal: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. The guidelines for submission of articles can be found here

New Issue: Comma

The next issue of Comma (2018:1-2) is a bumper special issue focusing on the work and impact of archivists and archives in university and research institutes
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The seventeen articles (twelve in English and five in Spanish) originate from the 2018 ICA-SUV/Conferencia de Archiveros de las Universidades Españolas [Conference of Spanish University Archivists] conference, “What value do historical records in University Archives add to Universities?” They are arranged here under four main themes : the Identity of university archives, the Pace of archives in the university community, the Management of archival records, and the Dissemination of the university archival heritage .

The special issue editors, Miguel Ángel Jaramillo Guerreira and Caroline Brown, identify ideas about “identity” as the common thread which runs throughout the issue. How archivists conceive their own identity, and that of the archives themselves, is evident in articles which discuss the changing roles of archive services within the institutions and their wider communities, or the roles which archivists themselves play, notably that of the archivist-activist.

Follow this link to authentify yourself as a member of ICA on the Liverpool University Press website and read this issue of Comma

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Volume 2017, Issue 2, 2019
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Introduction
Amy Tector

Articles

Auto-classification in an international organization: report from a feasibility study
Gesa Büttner

Les barrières à l’accès aux documents administratifs au Ministère de l’économie, de la planification et de l’aménagement du Territoire du Cameroun
Jacques Albert Monty

The disconnect between archival descriptive technique and records management taxonomies
G. Mark Walsh

Archivists as amanuenses (scribes) of Indigenous knowledge
Nicola Laurent

Las nuevas realidades de la reprografía en archivos: de los metadatos a la gestión de procesos
Francisco Javier Crespo Muñoz

L’archivistique au Maroc : naissance, évolution et situation actuelle
Siham Alaoui

Quelles archives pour la société de demain? Le débat autour de la collecte des archives en France depuis les années 2000
Marie Ranquet

The physical barriers to accessing the documentary heritage at the National Archives of Zimbabwe
Forget Chaterera Antonio Rodrigues

El arte de robar Arte: Por una cartografía de los robos en Brasil y sus conexiones
Beatriz Kushnir

Archivos digitales, gobierno abierto y transparencia
Alicia Barnard

The uses of Wikidata for galleries, libraries, archives and museums and its place in the digital humanities
Stacey Cook

Requirements for archives and records management jobs in international organizations with focus on United Nations – A job analysis of the vacancy announcements in 2016
Maik Schmerbauch

International trends in standardizing archival terminology : the Multilingual Archival Terminology (MAT) as a model
Amany Mohamed

New Issue: Comma

Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2018
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Preface
David Sutton

Articles

Literary archives around the world: the view from Namibia
Veno V. Kauaria David Sutton

Learning and teaching with literary archives
Heather Dean

Keeping born-digital literary and artistic archives in an imperfect world: theory, best practice and good enoughs
Sebastian Gurciullo

Outside the margins and beyond the page: complex digital literature, the new horizon for acquisition, conservation, curation and research
Catherine Hobbs Sara Viinalass-Smith

What to do with literary manuscripts? A model for manuscript studies after 1700
Wim Van Mierlo

Where are our heroes, martyrs and monuments? Archives of authors, publishers and editors from the Caribbean diaspora in London institutions
Deborah Jenkins

Literary correspondence: letters and emails in Caribbean writing
Marta Fernández Campa

Archives at risk: addressing a global concern
Jens Boel David C. Sutton

Management of archival literary sources: the Greek approach
Marietta Minotos Anna Koulikourdi

Research, re-cataloguing and acquisition policy: new developments at the Archive of the Finnish Literature Society
Katri Kivilaakso

Архивы культуры в России
Т.М. Горяева

Building on the Huntington Library’s literary foundation
Sara S. Hodson

A location list of literary archives in Brazil
Luciana Negrini David Sutton

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[note: articles available through membership or subscription. abstracts of articles are available.]

Comma Volume: 2015, Number: 1 (May 2016) is now available online.

Comma, International Journal on Archives is the chief serial publication of the International Council on Archives. Comma strives to be of value to a broader readership beyond the ICA membership and the archival profession at large. You can keep up to date with the journal by clicking here to sign up to new issue alerts, and can learn more about the title at its website page here.

Contents

Introduction

La maltraitance archivistique : élément du dysfonctionnement de l’administration et de l’État. Le cas du Bénin
Alphonse Labitan

Le service éducatif des Archives nationales du Bénin au service de l’enseignant et de l’apprenant
Léontine Hounnou Aballo

De l’expérience de collecte d’archives privées au Burkina Faso
Hamidou Diallo

La situation des archives au Burundi, des origines à nos jours
Nicodème Nyandwi

L’environnement des archives au Cameroun
Michael Ngwanyi

Exhumer les vestiges de la colonisation. Les archives coloniales belges et leur histoire
Bérengère Piret

Les Archives de l’Afrique Équatoriale Française
Brice Isinove Owabira

État Civil et archives en Côte d’Ivoire
Venance Bahi Gouro

Les archives publiques au Gabon de la fin de la période coloniale à nos jours
Jérôme Angoune Nzoghe

L’évolution de la fonction Archives au Niger
Habou Boukari