We celebrate International Archives Week with enthusiasm and solidarity around the world. This is an opportunity to briefly review the main issues, opportunities and challenges
Tag: Digital
Archival infrastructure/“info-structure” in the 21st century: how to provide the right services for the right publics
In the 21st century, archival institutions throughout the world are faced with the challenge of catering to the plethora of information sources, media and contents
Designing the Digital Archive: the challenge is real, and we must face it now
Ask any of our members about their archive, and they’d likely tell you about the digital collections they manage. The clue is in the name
Designing the archive and its implications
Every day, all over the world, archivists are busily engaged in shaping today’s and tomorrow’s documentary memory. Through our work, which is that of evaluating
Designing the Archives in the 21st Century
How to account for the persistent perception of archival practice as an analogue-based profession? Perhaps it stems in part from conflating the long history of
“Designing the Archives in the 21st Century”
Designing ‘archives’ in the 21st century is a more radical and challenging task than it was in the 1900s. It seems to me that the