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Keywords: Szadek; National Archives
More...Keywords: Art museum; visitor studies; photography; social media; collaborative archives.
Equipped with advanced digital technologies, museum visitors take more photos in art exhibitions than ever before. Photography policies in many art museums are open to visitor photography for private use. This research is examining how photographs made by museum visitors circulate within networked technological environment and can be visible globally via shared electronic databanks.
More...Prezentujemy historie związane ze zdjęciami wybranymi spośród bogatych zbiorów zgromadzonych przez biblioteki w ramach projektu Cyfrowe Archiwa Tradycji Lokalnej – sieci regionalnych archiwów społecznych. Działający od 2011 projekt (zob. „Karta” 71) przyniósł już efekty w postaci blisko 5000 archiwaliów, zgromadzonych przez 60 zespołów bibliotecznych. Dzięki projektowi do internetowego archiwum trafiają m.in. liczne fotografie, które nie tylko intrygują wizualnie, ale kryją za sobą opowieści o przeszłości danej miejscowości czy regionu.
More...The author cites excerpts from the correspondence of the Banat teachers L. Kostilkov and T. Dragan with the outstanding Bulgarian cultural and political figure Kr. Mirski. The letters provide historical and folklore data about the Bulgarian community in Banat.
More...Keywords: Archival building; archival repository; archival equipment; environmental protection; international standards; PD 5454:2012; PAS 198:2012; ISO 11799:2003;
Suitable archival building, repositories and other equipment used for storage of archival holdings are basic preliminary conditions for the proper functioning of any Archive. It enables long-term protection of archives, safeguarding, arrangement and description as well as access. That demands a set of necessary requirements as well as the consideration of the international standards, such as PD 5454:2012, PAS 198:2012, ISO 11799:2003
More...Keywords: Homeland War; Republic of Serbian Krajina; archival records; funds;
The archival records of the Republic of Serbian Krajina are kept in the Croatian Memorial and Documentation Centre of the Homeland War and in the several regional state archives in the Republic of Croatia – the State Archives in Zadar, the Collection Office of the Zadar State Archives in Šibenik, in the State Archives in Slavonski Brod and its department in Požega and in the Collection Office of the Sisak State Archives in Petrinja. In the first part of the paper I will concentrate on the presentation and the description of the records that are kept in the Croatian Memorial and Documentation Centre of the Homeland War and in the second part I will offer short review of the records kept in the regional state archives.
More...11 października 2012 r. w siedzibie Archiwum Państwowego w Siedlcach miało miejsce ofi cjalne otwarcie wystawy zatytułowanej Archiwum Rodzinne. Kisielany-Żmichy, które połączono z promocją katalogu zawierającego niemal wszystkie prezentowane podczas tego wydarzenia obiekty archiwalne. Na ekspozycji zaprezentowano ponad 200 odbitek fotografi cznych, za pośrednictwem których utrwalone zostały różne aspekty życia społeczności zamieszkującej wieś Kisielany-Żmichy pod koniec XIX i w pierwszej połowie XX w.
More...Keywords: Informatization; database; electronic archive book; Archive of Tuzla Canton;
A wide range of accelerated technological development and information technologies has already been well-known, which have constructed the so-called “ information society. All this has not remained outside of contemporary archival science, which has set new demands on archivists, but also provided new opportunities in everyday work. Such contemporary processes in archival theory and practice are also being sought by the Tuzla Canton Archives, which for several years has been increasingly implementing different information and technological achievements in different segments of their services, of course, in accordance with, first and foremost, the economic possibilities of Bosnian transitional society.
More...Keywords: Estonian naional archives; cultural sources; private archives;
Rahvusarhiiv kogub, säilitab ja võimaldab juurdepääsu Eesti ühiskonna arengut kirjeldavatele allikatele. Arhiivi kogud ulatuvad ajas tagasi XIII sajandini ja vormis pärgamendist lähimineviku digitaalse teabeni. Rahvusarhiivi hoidlates on kokku üle 10 miljoni säiliku, lisaks veel audiovisuaalne aines filmiarhiivis.
More...Keywords: New York World’s Fair (1939–1940); Romanian House; National External Propaganda; Images of the Romanian National Identity; Octav Doicescu; Dimitrie Gusti;
The present text is part of a more complex research on Romania’s participation in the New York World’s Fair (1939–1940). The main objective of this research is to reconstruct the representation of Romania’s national identity at a certain point in time (1939), classifying it as one element in a series of this kind. We will also concentrate on how this representation was perceived by the public opinion of the 1930s. As such, it is not only research on cultural history and public diplomacy (external propaganda, as it was called at the time), but also on bilateral Romanian-American relations (economy, politics etc.). Last but not least, it also represents a study in imagology. This paper, the first of a series, aimed at reconstructing some of the events related to the preparations led by the officials in Bucharest charged with the country’s participation in the New York World’s Fair, for the construction of the pavilion known as the Romanian House, designed by the architect Octav Doicescu and erected for this occasion. I have brought forth information referring to the evolution of the works done at this pavilion and the difficulties encountered throughout the process, such as: changes made to the architectural design, the relation between the entrepreneurs and workers, the transportation of construction materials from overseas, the exhibitions, the negotiations for appointment of the restaurant’s manager etc. All this took place between May 1938 and April 1939. Our sources are to be found at the National Historical Archives (Saint-George’s fund and Ministry for Commerce and Industry fund) and at the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Washington fund). To those sources we have added published documents from different public libraries and on-line archives (http://www.cooperativag.ro/, http://octavdoicescu.blogspot.com/ etc.) and details brought forth by specialised literature from 1997–2018 (articles /studies on the subject by Daniel Bogdea, Nicolae Dascălu (Nicolae Ureche), Narcisa Mitu, Raluca Preotu, Zoltan Rostas, Ileana Stanca-Desa, Claudiu-Alexandru Vitanos, Laurențiu Vlad etc.).
More...Keywords: post-custodial; community archives; social justice; participatory research; charrettes;
From the Canadian “total archives” movement of the 1980s, to more recent human rights and reconciliation community-driven archives in Australia, South Africa, and Cambodia, community-driven archives offer a powerful counterbalance to the representational inequality that sometimes characterizes the interactions between institutional archives and socially stigmatized or marginalized groups. The power disparity between a community collective seeking to preserve its materials and a partner archival institution points to the limited options available to the community. Some communities might be obliged to accept whatever curatorial terms the institution extends, with the only (impractical) alternative being the creation of its own unsupported archive. At the same time, traditional archival institutions that support community-driven archives face many ethical and practical challenges in that role. Beyond the duty to manage expectations, issues of patrimony, creator rights, and the local disposition of material all attach to the post-custodial paradigm.The Southern Historical Collection (SHC), in UNC’s Wilson Library Special Collections, is currently engaged in at least four community-driven projects (The Appalachian Student Health Coalition, The Eastern Kentucky African American Miners Project, The Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance, and The San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum). The projects’ objectives and concerns are as various as the creator communities that fostered them. In this paper, I consider the limits of parallels between community gardens and community archives. Drawing from the work of Douglas Biff Hollingsworth, I argue for a common lexicon describing community archives, according to various models of distributed curatorial responsibility, as a starting point for imagining canons of ethical responsibility. We suggest a new vocabulary for appraisal categories (existential value, cathartic value, accountability value, reconciliatory value, and communal value), and how such language supports a professional shift from an outcome-driven, commodity based tradition. Finally, I will describe some practical experiences regarding community rights and the role of community liaisons and charrettes in orchestrating community-driven archival projects.
More...Keywords: Critical plant studies; feminist studies; archives; Victorian period; horticulture;
This essay introduces the figure of Victorian “plant mother” whose houseplant amities provide an alternative model of motherhood within nineteenth-century colonial archives. I argue that compiling instances of her dispersed presences across archival documents reveals a flexible avatar of motherhood who restores maternity’s embodied and emotional dimensions. Not simply an agent of colonialism, the plant mother and her plants provide moments of transformation that coax out of colonial archival structures more inclusive models of domesticity, family, and belonging. To access these moments, I build a framework for interpreting nineteenth-century archival materials that braids feminist and critical plant studies perspectives that share commitments to expanding understandings of archives in their theoretical and material forms. This essay reconstructs the lives of Victorian plant mothers from plant births to deaths. Through these archival reconstructions, I insist that Victorian houseplant mothers show us how to locate nodes of loving resistance within colonial archival structures.
More...Keywords: post 9/11 media; documentary; entextualization; Muslim representation;
Representation of Muslims in media post the Sept 11 attacks in the US largely focused on themes of terrorism and extremism. Such homogenized representation was particularly problematic in non-fiction media such as news and documentaries which use archival footage to create ‘reality’. The consequent cir-culation of these images across the globe is one of the many examples throughwhich Muslim representation has been constructed through stock footage andsourced media images in media post the 9/11 attacks. In this paper, I examinestock images in documentary films in the form of archives to examine the rep-resentation of Muslim identity in the post 9/11 world. Using Malitsky’s frame-work of entextualization to analyze archival material in post 9/11 documentaries,I argue how stock images create a power differential between the East and theWest (Said, 1979) reinstating imperial domination. Therefore, this paper intendsto examine the use of archives that have been entextualized and re-present his-tory to shape representation of Muslims across spatial and temporal differencesthrough documentary films. To do so, I critically examine two post 9/11 documentaries – Secret Pakistan (2011) and Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror(2021) – to study how these films position the role of Pakistan as an Islamic na-tion in the Global War on Terror.
More...Keywords: archive; Derrida; Fisher; DAW; Lascar; recordings;
Drawing on the works of Jaques Derrida (1930–2004) – principally Archive Fever (1995) and Cinders (1987) – and Mark Fisher’s (1968–2017) Ghosts of My Life (2014) as interlocutors, I engage with concepts surrounding the electronic archive in artistic creation and research. I discuss my recent composition Ghost Gardens, a sixty-minute digital soundscape derived from the histories of Lascar sailors employed by the British East India Company during the 19th century, and current issues pertaining to climate change, habitat and species loss. I reflect upon the nature of the archive in a period of rapid environmental change, vanishing acoustic terrain and its preservation, through the lens of Ghost Gardens as a creative project which explores the intersection between sound, film, ecology and deconstruction in the digital domain. The creation of the soundscape has both utilised and generated digital film, audio and photographic archives, while the research process involved archival research pertaining to the East India Company. The sonic seascape forms part of a multi-layered, technologically enabled, interdisciplinary body of work; an ocean of sound that probes questions pertaining to the nature of recording and inscription of electronic documentation and retrieval.
More...Keywords: church archives; Roman archives; Resurrectionists; manuscripts; Great Emigration; Bogdan Jański; Adam Mickiewicz; Cyprian Kamil Norwid; San Sebastianello;
The Archive at the General House of the Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Rome is the central historical archive of the congregation. Bogdan Jański should be considered its founder, as he instructed to gather his entire legacy in Rome in 1840. Since 1886 the documentation has been housed in the General House of the Resurrectionists in via San Sebastanello 11. The first works organizing the archival records were undertaken by Father Paweł Smolikowski, at the turn of the 20th century. The current state of the archive has been most influenced by Father John Iwicki, who has catalogued nearly 70,000 file records, dividing the collection into 11 series. Between 2017 and 2023, Father Paweł Szymanowski, the congregation’s archivist, succeeded in signing an agreement with the Head Office of the State Archives to digitize and restore the letters of Adam Mickiewicz and Cyprian Kamil Norwid. Moreover, the Integrated Archival Information System (Zintegrowany System Informacji Archiwalnej – ZoSIA) has been implemented in the archive, thanks to which the inventory descriptions of archival items and their scans are successively uploaded. While the Roman Resurrectionist Archive does not have a statute, since October 30th, 1996, it has been operating on the basis of regulations approved by Father Sutherland MacDonald CR, the General of the Congregation. The archive has an inventory of more than 80,000 records. It collects the documentation heritage generated by the congregation’s central institutions, Resurrectionist houses and the legacy of the clergy. The Resurrectionist Archive includes very precious documentary resources, which, by their sheer size and informational value, make this institution one of the most important outside Poland. Its significance is not limited only to the knowledge of the history of the Polish Church in exile in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also the life of Polish exiles. Particularly valuable are the materials concerning the activity of the Great Emigration, cultural and political life of Poles in exile in the era of national captivity.
More...Keywords: Poland; archives; justice and state security arcihes;
Archives of justice administration represent an important and frequently used part of archival documents stored in the 4th department of the National Archives in Prague. In the so-called founding period of the Communist regime, this applies especially for the archives of the State Court in Prague, the State Prosecutor’s Office in Prague, the General Prosecutor’s Office in Prague, the Ministry of Justice of Czechoslovak Republic and the Administration of the Penitentiary Force. The paper clarifies the basic characteristics of these archives and compares it to the similar archives in Poland in context of the functioning of the originator and the adopted archival practise both in the Czech Republic and in Poland.
More...Keywords: Marian Grużewski; esoteric studies; homocracy; synarchism; occult; communism;
This paper concerns Marian Grużewski (1885–1963), a spiritist painter, psychic medium and occultist associated with the Polish Metapsychic Society, who created homocracy, a socio-political movement based on occult and esoteric foundations, after the Second World War. The arti- cle discusses and analyses the most important features and standpoints of homocracy through materials (internal statutes and personal notes) confiscated by the Polish communist Security Service. The paper also describes a secret investigation against Grużewski and his supporters, which resulted in their arrest and conviction on charges of attempting to overthrow the People’s Republic of Poland.
More...Keywords: State Jewish Museum; archives; public access; 60s;
Quand a été fonde, au cours de l’occupation nazie de la Tchécoslovaquie, le soi disant „Jüdisches Zentralmuseum“, l’ordre a été donné aux communautés juives du soi-disant Protectorat de concentrer tous les registres de naisances juifs dans un Registre juif central. Ainsi ont été pour toujours diviseés les fonds d’archives des communautés juives, comme cela a été le cas en Allemange nazie. Les registres, en tant qu’on a pu savoir, ont été détruits à la fin de guerre. Mais une partie en avaient été tenus en double, et ces copies ont été retrouvées aux archives du ministère de linteriur, et remises, après 1945, au comité national de Prague 1er, où elles sont déposés jusqu’à nos jours.
More...Keywords: online archives; social scientists as public intellectuals; digital inequalities;
Based on pioneering media online archives research, the International Sociological Association’s Code of Ethics, current debates on the right to be forgotten and some anecdotal evidence from Kultura i Społeczeństwo, the article’s author suggests several areas of interest for sociologists as public intellectuals and members of joint industry committees. The role of sociologists and scholars of related disciplines is important from the viewpoint of designing the future of media archives. In a world where unequal online reputation management brings forward the issue of digital and social inequalities, the role of social researchers in designing policies and best practices, and standards of contextualising archival content, may be crucial. They could mediate between the interests of publishers, audiences and regulators in regard to social values and the progress of civilisation.
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