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Item The Archivist’s New Clothes; or, the Naked Truth about Evidence, Transactions, and Recordness(2004-02-04T15:17:25Z) Bruemmer, Bruce; Boles, Frank; Greene, Mark A. (Mark Allen), 1958-; Daniels-Howell, Todd Jesse, 1956-The electronic records projects at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) have been promoted as competing visions of the archival future. This article, the work of several authors with experience as both manuscript curators and institutional archivists, challenges the perception that the UBC and Pitt models are fundamentally different from one another, and argues that they share a similar and deeply flawed conception of the meaning of archives and the mission of the archival profession. Rather than accept the premises upon which both UBC and Pitt build their models, archivists should re-assert the broader and more practical theory of archives that has dominated much of U.S. archival history.Item The Bethel AME Church Archive: Partners and Participants(Facet Publishing, 2017) Copeland, Andrea J.Community archives have proven vital for giving a voice to underrepresented groups. Formal institutional archives have traditionally represented the dominant narrative in society and continue to do so, excluding access to cultural records and artifacts of underrepresented groups. Well-funded cultural heritage institutions have the infrastructures of support to provide long-term preservation and access on a global scale. Connecting community archives to this infrastructure of support is the overarching goal of my research (Copeland, 2015). How to make that connection in a way that respects the community and the purpose of the archive remains to be determined. This chapter will detail my journey with one particular community and its archive.Item Bringing archival collections to Wikipedia with the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP) editor(2017-07-03) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Thompson, Timothy A.Wikipedia has been in existence for 16 years, but it was not until recently that GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) institutions started to see it as a trusted source and one they were interested in contributing to. Libraries and archives, in particular, have been slowly embracing the idea of contributing to Wikipedia, often motivated by the prospect of increasing the visibility and impact of their distinctive collections, which have been carefully curated by librarians and archivists alike. Different approaches have been taken by libraries and archives when it comes to contributing to Wikipedia. Some institutions have focused on adding links to Wikipedia articles in order to point back to their unique archival collections, whereas others have concentrated on enhancing the content of existing articles. Another way in which librarians and archivists can work together to share our collections is to collaborate on projects to enrich and repurpose the metadata that has already been created to describe them. The University of Miami Libraries took this approach and developed a tool to facilitate the creation of Wikipedia articles using relevant metadata from the libraries’ finding aids (documents that describe the scope, content, and context of archival collections). In this chapter, we will introduce the RAMP (Remixing Archival Metadata Project) editor and share our experience working on a pilot project conducted to test its viability.Item Bringing the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM to Wikidata: How Wikidata can be used in an archival context(2020-06-08) Lee, Yoo Young; Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Bokovay, MarinaLibraries and archives can play a critical role in the creation and curation of data in Wikidata to ensure underrepresented communities are not only included, but also properly described in the knowledge base. This workshop will provide a brief overview of Wikidata in the archival context and its possible uses. We will also share our experiences using Wikidata for the the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM initiative (https://biblio.uottawa.ca/en/women-in-stem/about) based on the WikiProject Archival Description initiative (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archival_Description). The goal of the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM is to bring attention to and promote the discovery of the archival records of women in STEM held by Canadian institutions–a bilingual portal containing descriptive metadata, a biographical sketch/admin history about the women/organizations and information about the host institution–in order to provide a simplified avenue for researchers to discover all available holdings. Contributing the archival metadata and the biographical sketch, as well as links to the host institutions to Wikidata could further increase the visibility of collections, finding aids, as well as the institutions themselves, beyond archival or library systems. This workshop is designed to be interactive with a series of hands-on activities which includes a demonstration of how to contribute content from archival finding aids to Wikidata as well as an introduction on efficient workflows and useful tools for contributing, visualizing and querying the data. This workshop aims to encourage archivists to participate in the open knowledge movement and contribute their unique collections to Wikidata to expand their findability and reach.Item Building an on-RAMP to Wikipedia(The Wikipedia Library, 2015-04) Thompson, Timothy; Lemus-Rojas, MairelysItem First, view no harm: An examination of ethics in preserving medical photography(2024-08-14) LaPorte, MollyPhysicians and other healthcare professionals and organizations have used medical imagery – illustrations, diagrams, models, videos, and photography – for centuries, for educational, clinical, research, and marketing purposes. Once these images are no longer useful or outdated, they are either disposed, forgotten, or transferred to a suitable archival repository where they await secondary use. It is this secondary historical value that drives the archival endeavor, but for some materials, those that make us take pause, the value they add to future research and societal memory should be balanced against our concerns. In this case, privacy and empathy. While much medical imagery contains potentially sensitive and graphic subject matter, photographs and videos depicting real clinical patients pose a significant ethical question: How are archivists to proceed in preserving such intimate depictions of human pain and suffering or healing and joy? This poster presents a case study of my work processing the photograph collection of the Indiana University School of Medicine held at the Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives. It uses existing scholarship across disciplines to examine the concepts of informed consent, patient privacy, the relationship between patient and provider, image ownership, and trauma-informed archival practice. Holding images of stereotactic brain surgery from the 1970s and infants in casts up to such ideas brings to question the value and harm in making these images accessible to researchers and how archivists can respect the dignity and autonomy of those depicted therein.Item Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania(Springer, 2021-12) McNutt, Ellison J.; Hatala, Kevin G.; Miller, Catherine; Adams, James; Casana, Jesse; Deane, Andrew S.; Dominy, Nathaniel J.; Fabian, Kallisti; Fannin, Luke D.; Gaughan, Stephen; Gill, Simone V.; Gurtu, Josephat; Gustafson, Ellie; Hill, Austin C.; Johnson, Camille; Kallindo, Said; Kilham, Benjamin; Kilham, Phoebe; Kim, Elizabeth; Liutkus-Pierce, Cynthia; Maley, Blaine; Prabhat, Anjali; Reader, John; Rubin, Shirley; Thompson, Nathan E.; Thornburg, Rebeca; Williams-Hatala, Erin Marie; Zimmer, Brian; Musiba, Charles M.; DeSilva, Jeremy M.; Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of MedicineBipedal trackways discovered in 1978 at Laetoli site G, Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million years ago are widely accepted as the oldest unequivocal evidence of obligate bipedalism in the human lineage1-3. Another trackway discovered two years earlier at nearby site A was partially excavated and attributed to a hominin, but curious affinities with bears (ursids) marginalized its importance to the paleoanthropological community, and the location of these footprints fell into obscurity3-5. In 2019, we located, excavated and cleaned the site A trackway, producing a digital archive using 3D photogrammetry and laser scanning. Here we compare the footprints at this site with those of American black bears, chimpanzees and humans, and we show that they resemble those of hominins more than ursids. In fact, the narrow step width corroborates the original interpretation of a small, cross-stepping bipedal hominin. However, the inferred foot proportions, gait parameters and 3D morphologies of footprints at site A are readily distinguished from those at site G, indicating that a minimum of two hominin taxa with different feet and gaits coexisted at Laetoli.Item Issues with archiving community data(Facet Publishing, 2017) Spotts, Lydia; Copeland, Andrea J.Transportation in Indianapolis is evolving. The bicycle, two-wheeled agitator of a similar transportation revolution across the United States in the 1890s, is back. The city landscape, overwhelmingly distinguished by auto-centric design, is increasingly being reshaped to support cycling as the economic impact of these alterations changes perceptions and the cycling movement gains momentum. How to document the impact of an urban landscape in flux from the perspective of a loosely codified community centered on cycling is a considerable challenge worthy of consideration by archivists and information professionals in general.Item I’m Rooting for You: Cultivating Relationships with Graduate Student Workers(2024-05-02) Connell, Nicole; Hall, Danielle; Lebovitz, Sarah; Pieczko, Brandon T.; Vaughan, BennaThe current GLAM hiring culture is competitive and increasingly experience driven—students are expected to graduate from their master’s programs with varied practical experiences in addition to theoretical knowledge and familiarity with best practices in the field. What opportunities exist for both full-time and part-time students to gain these experiences, and how can practitioners help without overextending themselves? What work goes into supervising and collaborating with students? In this roundtable discussion, panelists will examine the various aspects of collaborations between professionals and student workers in archives. Hear examples from archives professionals who make space for library and archives students to gain hands-on, project-based, educational experiences that benefit their own institutions, their partner organizations, and above all, the student participants. Learn about advocating for and acquiring funding for student positions and the types of projects students complete during internships and practicum experiences, and gain insight into how practical work experience supports and supplements classroom curricula. When strong relationships exist between universities and professional archivists, students can enter the field as well-rounded,confident professionals with the experiences and peer support systems necessary to secure full-time employment.Item Maximizing the use and exposure of archival authority data(2017-05-22) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Thompson, TimothyIn the library profession, we have become increasingly aware of the benefits of creating and sharing authority data. More specifically, archivists have identified the need to have a standard structure that would make it possible to record and exchange information related to creators of archival materials. A group was formed to address this issue, and as a result the EAC-CPF standard emerged. EAC-CPF, an XML Schema, encodes contextual information about persons, corporate bodies, and families related to archival materials and is the basis for a new discovery system called SNAC (Social Networks & Archival Context). SNAC aims to provide a platform where resources from cultural heritage institutions around the world can be aggregated, which would make it easier to locate and discover archival materials. Having this unified access will be beneficial not only to participating institutions, but also to researchers because it will provide a global social network connecting the past to the present. With the idea of sharing archival data on a global scale, the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP) was developed. RAMP allows users to generate enhanced authority records for creators of archival collections and publish their content to the English Wikipedia through its API. By creating a Wikipedia entry using curated archival metadata, it is possible to actively shape the online encyclopedia with reliable information. This presentation will focus on how archival authority data is being used to build the SNAC discovery system and how librarians/archivists are actively taking advantage of their curated data to shape Wikipedia, one of the most used sites on the web.
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