Beyond chip monks and paper tigers: towards a new culture of archival format specialists |
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| Authors: | Joanna Sassoon |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Computer and Information Sciences, Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford Street, Mt Lawley, Perth, WA, 6050, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The emergence of the new format of electronic/digital records provides the opportunity for archivists to reconsider the presumed
format-neutrality of professional practice. As research in electronic records has served to re-emphasise, without an understanding
of the needs and forms of material, then the work of archivists can have a profound impact on the evidential value and long-term
research potential of the material. This paper attempts to broaden the debate about the requirements of all archival formats,
and to build a new regime of 21st-century format specialists.
Dr. Joanna Sassoon
is currently seconded to Edith Cowan University as Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer and Information Science. Her
permanent position is in the State Records Office of Western Australia. She has long experience in managing archival collections,
and has written extensively on a range of topics including digitisation, the effect of institutional practice on archival
materials, environmental and indigenous history, and photographs as archives, and her work has been recognised with two Mander-Jones
awards from the Australian Society of Archivists. She holds a Ph.D. in history with distinction from the University of Western
Australia. |
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| Keywords: | Photographic archives Electronic records Archival education Special formats |
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