info 6800 (winter 2013) week four: arrangement and description
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Slides for week four of INFO 6800 (Winter 2013).TRANSCRIPT
INFO 6800 - Archives
• Announcements• Archival software• Debates about provenance• Seminar presentations
January 28, 2013 1INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-03-29/
Respect des fonds
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Fonds Fonds
Fonds Fonds
Collection Fonds
Fonds Fonds
Council of Nova Scotia Archives, 2005
Respect des fonds
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Helen Creighton with the Gallagher family, Chebucto Head, ca. 1950
Ethnographic Archives
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Arrangement
PreservationDescription
Archives decision-making diagram Library of Congress
Resource Allocation
Arrangement
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Arranging a fonds at the Dalhousie University Archives
Arrangement
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Physically organizing business correspondence at Dalhousie University Archives
Archival Description
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Product
Process
Purpose
Archival Description
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Principles of RAD
Attention to use
Integrated description
Respect des fonds
All forms and mediums
Reflects arrangement
Describe creator
January 21, 2013 9INFO 6800 Archives – Week Three
Level of Arrangement
Level of Description
Container
Fonds Fonds Boxes
Series Series Boxes
Sub-Series Sub-Series Boxes
File File Box-Folder(s)
Item Item Folder
Archival Description
How are fonds organized?
January 7, 2013 10INFO 6800 Archives – Week One
Correspondence – Box 1, Folder 3
Photographs – Photo Box 3, Folder 9
Blueprints – Oversized File 27
Film reel – Canister 429
How are fonds organized?
January 7, 2013 11INFO 6800 Archives – Week One
Box 1, Folder 3
Photo Box 3, Folder 9
Oversized File 27
Canister 429
Shelf 8, Room B
Shelf 2, Room A
Rack 9, Room B
Shelf 4, Room C
January 21, 2013 12INFO 6800 Archives – Week Three
Title. – Date(s) of creation. – Physical description. – Scope and content. – Notes. – Standard number.
1.0B
January 21, 2013 13INFO 6800 Archives – Week Three
Scenes of Oak Island, N.S. [graphic material]. – 1972. – 13 photographs : b&w, mounted on cardstock ; 20 x 17 cm.
Archivists’ Toolkit
January 28, 2013 14INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
Archivists’ Toolkit
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Archivists’ Toolkit
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Archivists’ Toolkit
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ICA Atom
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Archives and the Internet
ICA Atom
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Archives and the Internet
ICA Atom
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Archives and the Internet
ICA Atom
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Archives and the Internet
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Archives and the Internet
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Archives and the Internet
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Archives and the Internet
ArchivesSpace
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Archives and the Internet
ArchivesSpace
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Archives and the Internet
ArchivesSpace
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Archives and the Internet
ArchivesSpace
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Archives and the Internet
ArchivesSpace
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Archives and the Internet
ArchivesSpace
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Archives and the Internet
Debates about Provenance
January 28, 2013 31INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
Debates about Provenance
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“Postmodernism eschews any and all sweeping explanations premised on some version of monolithic human experience. In contrast, postmodernists emphasis the diversity of human experience and the multiplicity of perspectives arising there from.”
Deodato (2006)
Redefining Provenance
Debates about Provenance
January 28, 2013 33INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
“Failing to perceive ethnicity as provenance can lead to some unfortunate results…Without a full appreciation for the contextual whole of ethnic community development, efforts to document this dimension of society can take on a fragmentary and narrow approach. When ethnicity is not viewed as provenance, it tends to be viewed simply as a subject area or "theme," like education, labor, sports, or the arts.”
Wurl (2005)
Redefining Provenance
Debates about Provenance
January 28, 2013 34INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
“If any principle should govern archival theory, it is not the fonds, but rather the visualization through description of functional structures, both internal and external: archival narratives about those multiple relationships.”
Horsman(2002)
Redefining Provenance
Visualizing Archives
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Archives and the Internet
Visualizing Archives
January 28, 2013 36INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
Redefining Provenance
Archives and the Internet
Visualizing Archives
January 28, 2013 37INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
Redefining Provenance
Archives and the Internet
Visualizing Archives
January 28, 2013 38INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
Redefining Provenance
Archives and the Internet
Visualizing Archives
January 28, 2013 39INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
Archives and the Internet
Redefining Provenance
More Product, Less Process
January 28, 2013 40INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
Resource Allocation
http://derangementanddescription.wordpress.com/tag/more-product-less-process/
• New York World’s Fair 1939 and 1940 Incorporated Records
• Amos Vogel Papers
• Oland and Son and Affiliated Companies
• Salman Rushdie Papers
January 30, 2012 Week Four – Archival Processing
Sample finding aids
Sources (in order of appearance)
January 28, 2013 42INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
Adams, Scott (2010). Dilbert comic. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-03-29/. Council of Nova Scotia Archives. Fonds diagram.
http://www.councilofnsarchives.ca/ArchWay. Helen Creighton with the Gallagher family, Chebucto Head (ca. 1950).
http://www.helencreighton.org/photos/HCphotos/files/page6-1005-full.html.
The First Panchen Lama, Lobzang Chökyi Gyaltsen (detail); Tsang Province, Tibet; 18th century; Rubin Museum of Art; F1996.21.2 (HAR 477). http://www.rmanyc.org/nav/exhibitions/view/1562.
Library of Congress (2010). Archival decision making process diagram. http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/prep.html.
Deodato, Joseph. “Becoming Responsible Mediators: The Application of Postmodern Perspectives to Archival Arrangement and Description.” Progressive Librarian 27 (Summer 2006): 52-63. http://www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/PL_Jnl/pdf/PL27_summer2006.pdf.
Sources (in order of appearance)
January 28, 2013 43INFO 6800 Archives – Week Four
Horsman, Peter. “The Last Dance of the Phoenix, or the De-discovery of the Archival Fonds.” Archivaria 54 (Fall 2002): 1-23.
International Council on Archives (2000). Model of the levels of arrangement of a fonds. In International Standard for Archival Description (General), p. 36. http://www.ica.org/10207/standards/isadg-general-international-standard-archival-description-second-edition.html.
John Tagliabue Papers visualization (2009). http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/visualizations/john-tagliabue-papers-edmund-s-mus.
Archivists’ Toolkit screenshots (2009). https://staff.lib.ncsu.edu/confluence/display/MNC/Archivists%27+Toolkit
Sources (in order of appearance)
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ArchivesSpace screenshots:Millman, David, Mark Matienzo and Katherine Kott (2012). Sustaining
ArchivesSpace. Presentation at DLF Forum, November 4, 2012. http://www.archivesspace.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DLF-Forum_11042012_final.pdf.
Photographs of Dalhousie University Archives and the Killam Library were taken by Dalhousie Libraries staff