New Issue: Journal of Western Archives

I purposely do not include Digital Humanities journals on my list of journals, primarily because they focus more on libraries and scholarly communication, and archives is only sometimes part of that conversation.

However, I peruse them every so often and their most recent issue includes an article by archivists at Smith College, Beth Myers and Jennifer Rajchel. Their article “What Does Digital Feminist Curation Look Like?” is quite interesting.

The journal is open access, so you can read the full issue.

Open Positions: Primary Source

reposted:

The Society of Mississippi Archivists is currently transitioning its open access semiannual journal, The Primary Source, to peer review. As part of that process, we have two positions open on the editorial board. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic group of fellow archivists to make a significant contribution to the field of archival science. These editors will serve a one year term, renewable every April, in which they solicit submissions, liaise with peer reviewers and article contributors, and make decisions on article fitness for review and acceptance in the journal.

If interested, please send a CV and a statement of interest to Derek Webb at dswebb@muw.edu. First consideration will go to candidates who send their information by July 25.

Derek Webb | University Archivist | Mississippi University for Women

Open Positions: JCAS

reposted:

The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS), a peer-reviewed online journal hosted by Yale University and New England Archivists, seeks an Associate Editor and a Marketing Associate. All interested candidates should apply by August 1, 2016. See below for details.

JCAS‘s mission is to further awareness of issues and developments in the work of professional archivists, curators, and historians, and serve as a locus for graduate students and professionals in library science, archival science, and public history to contribute original works of research and inquiry for peer review and publication. JCAS publishes research articles, case studies, literature reviews (book, web-based, multimedia), work-in-progress articles, and conference reports that emphasize unique intellectual and technological developments in the archival profession. JCAS is an open-access, online academic journal published via the Berkeley Electronic Press Digital Commons platform.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR
The Associate Editor collaborates with the Managing Editor in soliciting, selecting, and developing content for the journal. The Associate Editor reviews assigned submissions and oversees the peer review process for them: reading and evaluating reports submitted by peer reviewers and recommending to the Managing Editor whether the manuscripts should be accepted for publication, accepted for publication with revisions, or rejected for publication. The Associate Editor participates in outreach programming whenever possible and assists in the solicitation of submissions on an ongoing basis. This person will serve a term of three years, with the opportunity to serve a second term if desired.

MARKETING ASSOCIATE
The Marketing Associate generates and oversees all publicity, networking, and liaison work for the journal’s social media presence. The Marketing Associate manages all incoming and outgoing communications and coordinates outreach events with the NEA Communications Committee. This person will serve a term of two years, with the opportunity to serve a second term if desired.

Interested candidates are asked to submit a resume and a short cover letter for consideration by the NEA Executive Board. Deadline for submission is August 1, 2016. Applications and questions should be directed to NEA Immediate Past President Colin Lukens: colin_lukens@harvard.edu.

New England Archivists
Communications Committee

New Issue: Practical Technology for Archives

We are pleased to announce the publication of Issue no.6 of Practical Technology for Archives.

http://practicaltechnologyforarchives.org

In this issue we have three excellent articles, one on dealing with born-digital material on disposable media, one about incorporating a file-renaming program into a digitization workflow to make the files easier to repurpose, and another on a program for searching an institutions server to locate files that should either be deleted or archived.

If you have an idea or proposal for Issue no.7, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

All the Best,
Randall Miles,
Managing Editor

New Journal: KULA

I saw this announcement on the A&A listserv a couple weeks ago. I’m curious how the content will shape up and how much will be archives-related. There’s definite potential and I hope archivists consider contributing.

Inaugural Call for Papers – Spring 2016

KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies is a new peer-reviewed, open access journal, meant to encourage the formation of a multi-disciplinary community of scholars studying human knowledge processes through the ages, concerned to understand their role in the full sweep of human civilizations, and to project them into the future from both humanistic and technological perspectives. KULA has no author publication charges and articles will be published on a continuous basis.

KULA derives its name from the Sanskrit word meaning “community.” Kula is also a reference to the Pacific Rim Terrane called the “Kula Plate” from which Vancouver Island, Canada was formed millions of years ago and is where KULA is based at the University Libraries of the University of Victoria.

KULA will publish articles related to the past, present, and future of Citizen Science; Cultural Heritage; Cultural Heritage Informatics; Culture of Researchers; Data Sharing; Digital Archaeology; Digital Asset Management; Digital Curation; Digital Humanities; Digital Infrastructure; Digital Libraries; Digital Methods; Digital Preservation/ Curation; Digital Repositories; Digital Scholarship; Digitization; Emulation; Humanities Computing; Inclusive Design; Information Systems; Institutional and Policy Design; Knowledge & Research Infrastructures; Knowledge for Development; Knowledge Infrastructure; Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Linked Data; Literary Studies; Media Studies; Multi-Institutional Collaboration; Open Access; Open Access Publishing; Open Scholarship; Open Science; Open Social Scholarship; Peer-Review Systems; Professionalization; Publishing Technologies; Research Assessment; Research Data Management; Research Libraries; Scholarly Communication; Scholarly Editing; Search and Discovery; Semantic Extraction; Social Exclusion; Social Knowledge; Sustainability Models; System Analysis and Design.

New Articles: Routledge Information Technology Journals

The list of journals I maintain contains ones where the primary focus is archives. I’m not sure how to keep up with other journals that sometimes publish archives-related content, but I’ll post it when I see it. A Routledge email newsletter announced several open access research articles.

They are all information technology articles, and some may only be peripherally relevant to archives. I saw two archives-specific articles: “Archival Appraisal and the Digital Record: Applying Past Tradition for Future Practice” and “A Digital Archive of Cultural Heritage Objects: Standardized Metadata and Annotation Categories.”

It’s great to see archives content in other journals, and I hope to see more!

New Article: Journal of Western Archives

The Journal of Western Archives is pleased to announce the availability of a new archival by Cyndi Shein and Emily Lapworth entitled “Say Yes to Digital Surrogates: Strengthening the Archival Record in the Postcustodial Era.” It is well worth reading. You can check it out at http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol7/iss1/9/.

Gordon Daines

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J. Gordon Daines III
Editor, Journal of Western Archives
Supervisor of Reference Services
Department Chair
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
801-422-5821
gordon_daines@byu.edu

New Article: JCAS

(from Facebook post)

We are pleased to announce publication of a new article: “The Wild West No More: Preserving 40 Years of Electronic Records at the University of Wyoming American Heritage Center,” by Tyler G. Cline.

In the summer of 2014, the American Heritage Center undertook a project to migrate all born-digital records to a secure server, thereby creating the means to provide access to the material. The author explores the project which largely eliminating the backlog of born-digital collection material and making those records available for use to all.

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