Archivists and historians usually consider archives as repositories of historical sources and the... more Archivists and historians usually consider archives as repositories of historical sources and the archivist as a neutral custodian. Sociologists and anthropologists see “the archive” also as a system of collecting, categorizing, and exploiting memories. Archivists are hesitantly acknowledging their role in shaping memories. However archival holdings, archival documents, archival institutions, and archival systems contain tacit narratives which must be deconstructed in order to understand the meanings of archives. Although Technology is not the only factor to determine the structure and the content of archives because cognitive and cultural factors also play an important role, the structure and the writing depend on it.
... org/imagesUpload/pres_166_MILLAR_ZMIL01.pdf); Michael Piggott, “Archives and memory”, in: Sue... more ... org/imagesUpload/pres_166_MILLAR_ZMIL01.pdf); Michael Piggott, “Archives and memory”, in: Sue McKemmish, Michael ... among British emigrants travelling to Australia, 1945-1971”, in: Teo and White ... 20 Ann Curthoys, “ 'Vietnam': Public Memory of an Anti-War Movement”, in ...
As gatekeepers of information, information professionals have a greater ethical responsibility th... more As gatekeepers of information, information professionals have a greater ethical responsibility than ever before to their users, to themselves, to the profession, and to society.
Archivists and historians usually consider archives as repositories of historical sources and the... more Archivists and historians usually consider archives as repositories of historical sources and the archivist as a neutral custodian. Sociologists and anthropologists see “the archive” also as a system of collecting, categorizing, and exploiting memories. Archivists are hesitantly acknowledging their role in shaping memories. However archival holdings, archival documents, archival institutions, and archival systems contain tacit narratives which must be deconstructed in order to understand the meanings of archives. Although Technology is not the only factor to determine the structure and the content of archives because cognitive and cultural factors also play an important role, the structure and the writing depend on it.
... org/imagesUpload/pres_166_MILLAR_ZMIL01.pdf); Michael Piggott, “Archives and memory”, in: Sue... more ... org/imagesUpload/pres_166_MILLAR_ZMIL01.pdf); Michael Piggott, “Archives and memory”, in: Sue McKemmish, Michael ... among British emigrants travelling to Australia, 1945-1971”, in: Teo and White ... 20 Ann Curthoys, “ 'Vietnam': Public Memory of an Anti-War Movement”, in ...
As gatekeepers of information, information professionals have a greater ethical responsibility th... more As gatekeepers of information, information professionals have a greater ethical responsibility than ever before to their users, to themselves, to the profession, and to society.
Free audiorecordings of our colloquium on "Treasuries of Knowledge: Collecting and Transmitting I... more Free audiorecordings of our colloquium on "Treasuries of Knowledge: Collecting and Transmitting Information in the Early Modern Period". http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/2218252
This volume investigates the relationship between archives and information in the early modern world. It explores how the physical documentation that proliferated on an unprecedented scale between the 16th and 18th centuries was managed in the context of wider innovations in the sphere of communication and of significant upheaval and change. The chapters assess how archives were implicated in patterns of statecraft and scrutinise critical issues of secrecy and publicity, access and concealment. They analyse the interconnections between documentation and geographical distance, probing the part played by record-keeping in administration, governance, and justice, as well as its links with trade, commerce, education, evangelism, and piety. Alive to how the contents of archives were organised and filed, the contributors place paper technologies and physical repositories under the microscope. Extending beyond the framework of formal institutions to the family, household, and sect, this volume offers fresh insight into the possibilities and constraints of political participation and the nature of human agency. It deepens our understanding of the role of archives in the construction and preservation of knowledge and the exercise of power in its broadest sense. Above all, it calls for greater dialogue and creative collaboration to breach the lingering disciplinary divide between historians and archival scientists.
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A social history of archives, as presented in this book, deals with the influence of s... more Abstract
A social history of archives, as presented in this book, deals with the influence of societal challenges, patterns and norms on archiving practices and vice versa: archiving that conditions or facilitates social practices. Such a social history of archives is important not only for the user of archives and the archivist, but also for people who design archiving systems and policies and who need to understand the duality of the archive in society. To understand the archive, historians and other users of the archive must 'understand the conceptual and cultural environment in which their archive resources are created, structured, processed, assessed, discarded and stored'. Archiving (in the broad sense as used in this book) is not limited to archiving and saving, but - as I will explain in the general introduction - starts with the decision to use documents for a transaction. That is why I give a lot of attention to the history of writings and records (records management). This book, in exploring past archiving practices, tries to answer the question: what did people do in the Netherlands and why did they do it in different domains. These domains are each dealt with in a separate chapter: archiving of people, by churches, states, cities, polders and marks, archiving of real estate, trade and industry, of money, of court cases, in the VOC, archiving by technologies and professionalization from the archivist. I will also try to answer the question to what extent these archiving practices were typically Dutch.
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This volume investigates the relationship between archives and information in the early modern world. It explores how the physical documentation that proliferated on an unprecedented scale between the 16th and 18th centuries was managed in the context of wider innovations in the sphere of communication and of significant upheaval and change. The chapters assess how archives were implicated in patterns of statecraft and scrutinise critical issues of secrecy and publicity, access and concealment. They analyse the interconnections between documentation and geographical distance, probing the part played by record-keeping in administration, governance, and justice, as well as its links with trade, commerce, education, evangelism, and piety. Alive to how the contents of archives were organised and filed, the contributors place paper technologies and physical repositories under the microscope. Extending beyond the framework of formal institutions to the family, household, and sect, this volume offers fresh insight into the possibilities and constraints of political participation and the nature of human agency. It deepens our understanding of the role of archives in the construction and preservation of knowledge and the exercise of power in its broadest sense. Above all, it calls for greater dialogue and creative collaboration to breach the lingering disciplinary divide between historians and archival scientists.
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A social history of archives, as presented in this book, deals with the influence of societal challenges, patterns and norms on archiving practices and vice versa: archiving that conditions or facilitates social practices. Such a social history of archives is important not only for the user of archives and the archivist, but also for people who design archiving systems and policies and who need to understand the duality of the archive in society.
To understand the archive, historians and other users of the archive must 'understand the conceptual and cultural environment in which their archive resources are created, structured, processed, assessed, discarded and stored'. Archiving (in the broad sense as used in this book) is not limited to archiving and saving, but - as I will explain in the general introduction - starts with the decision to use documents for a transaction. That is why I give a lot of attention to the history of writings and records (records management).
This book, in exploring past archiving practices, tries to answer the question: what did people do in the Netherlands and why did they do it in different domains. These domains are each dealt with in a separate chapter: archiving of people, by churches, states, cities, polders and marks, archiving of real estate, trade and industry, of money, of court cases, in the VOC, archiving by technologies and professionalization from the archivist. I will also try to answer the question to what extent these archiving practices were typically Dutch.
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