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Drawing on a selection of recently available documents from the International Tracing Service, one of the largest Holocaust-related archival repositories in the world, this compelling volume provides new insights into human decision-making in genocidal settings, the factors that drive it, and its far-reaching consequences.

Performance in the digital age has undergone a radical shift in which a once ephemeral art form can now be relived, replayed and repeated. Until now, much scholarship has been devoted to the nature of live performance in the digital age; Documenting Performance is the first book to provide a collection of key writings about the process of documenting performance, focused not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance. Through its four-part structure, the volume introduces readers to important writings by international practitioners and scholars on: the contemporary context for documenting performanceprocesses of documenting performancedocumenting bodies in motiondocumenting to create In each, chapters examine the ways performance is documented and the issues arising out of the process of documenting performance. While theorists have argued that performance becomes something else whenever it is documented, the writings reveal how the documents themselves cannot be regarded simply as incomplete remains from live events. The methods for preserving and managing them over time, ensuring easy access of such materials in systematic archives and collections, requires professional attention in its own right. Through the process of documenting performance, artists acquire a different perspective on their own work, audiences can recall specific images and sounds for works they have witnessed in person, and others who did not see the original work can trace the memories of particular events, or use them to gain an understanding of something that would otherwise remain unknown to them and their peers.

The digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation invites migrants to present their own stories in the world's largest and most diverse archive of its kind. Since 2017, more than 300 community storytellers have created their own audiovisual testimonial narratives, sharing their personal experiences of migration and repatriation. With Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge , the project's coordinator, Robert Irwin, and other team members introduce the project's innovative participatory methodology, drawing out key issues regarding the human consequences of contemporary migration control regimes, as well as insights from migrants whose world-making endeavors may challenge what we think we know about migration. In recent decades, migrants in North America have been treated with unprecedented harshness. Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge outlines this recent history, revealing stories both of grave injustice and of seemingly unsurmountable obstacles overcome. As Irwin writes, \"The greatest source of expertise on the human consequences of contemporary migration control are the migrants who have experienced them,\" and their voices in this searing collection jump off the page and into our hearts and minds.

\"Much of worldâ s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical significance of the collections identified, catalogued and digitised through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented â including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives â and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history.\"

This book explores the possibilities of archival objects as diverse as early modern printed books and funeral masks, and asks what activities stand behind the making of heritage objects, and how digitization practices can inform our knowledge of various media.

This paper explores the role of archival activism in supporting social movements linked to human rights and social justice agendas. Taking a records continuum perspective, it presents an Australian case study relating to the Stolen Generations, Former Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians and Forced Adoption communities to illustrate imperatives for advocacy and activism in support of the “archival autonomy” of communities. Framed by critical theory, the study identifies and analyses systemic problems in meeting the recordkeeping and archival identity, memory, accountability, redress and recovery needs of these key communities. The devastating impact of both finding and not finding relevant information is highlighted, along with how systemic and structural difficulties in seeking access to vital evidence can be re-traumatising. Using reflexivity and the Movement Action Plan as an analytical tool, the case study reflects on the activist role archival research and development projects can potentially play, using the Who Am I? and Trust and Technology Projects as exemplars. The paper explores how an extended suite of rights in records, stretching beyond discovery and access to appraisal, description and disclosure, and linked to records continuum concepts of co-creation and multiple provenance, and the emergent concept of the participatory archive, might support community self-determination in the context of human rights and social justice agendas, with particular reference to the rights of the child. Additionally, the paper explores a new concept of archival autonomy and its relationship to community self-determination. Archival autonomy is tentatively defined as the ability for individuals and communities to participate in societal memory, with their own voice, and to become participatory agents in recordkeeping and archiving for identity, memory and accountability purposes. The achievement of archival autonomy is identified as a grand societal challenge, with the need for archival activism to become an integral part of social movements on a local and global scale. The paper concludes with a proposed National Summit on the Archive and the Rights of the Child, envisaged as a vehicle for archival advocacy and activism leading to transformative action to address social justice and human rights agendas in Australia.

Since the founding of the National Archives (1934) and the Society of American Archivists (1936), archival scholars, educators, and practitioners have discussed and debated the challenges of and future directions for graduate archival education. This exploratory qualitative case study uses semistructured interviews with 33 tenure-track and tenured faculty members from North American graduate archival programs to explore the most pressing issues facing archival education in the twenty-first century. Showing both continuity and change, findings extend and enrich the literature regarding faculty, curriculum, interdisciplinarity and collaboration, DEI, technology, and sustainability.

Od trenutka kada je prepoznata potreba da se arhivskomu gradivu u nastajanju pristupi sistematičnije i odgovornije prošlo je nešto više od sedam desetljeća.Tijekom toga vremena arhivski djelatnici suočavali su se s nizom sličnih izazova, nastojeći pronaći rješenja primjenljiva novim okolnostima. Razvoj arhivske prakse posebno se očituje u kontinuitetu vođenja evidencija o stvarateljima i posjednicima gradiva – od prvih jednostavnih kartoteka do današnjih digitalnih popisa i pripadajuće zbirke dosjea. Rad donosi pregled povijesnoga razvoja dosjea s osvrtom na prijelaz iz analognoga u digitalno okruženje. Temelj je Zbirka dosjea stvaratelja u nadležnosti Hrvatskoga državnoga arhiva, koja je poslužila kao obrazac za prijedlog modela unosa podataka u novi Nacionalni arhivski informacijski sustav (NAIS, poznatiji pod kolokvijalnim nazivom eArhiv). Predloženi model predviđa da se dio podataka unosi u strukturiranom obliku kroz brojna polja Upisnika arhiva i posjednika u nadležnosti arhiva, a drugi bi se dio vodio i učitavao u digitalni dosje pojedinoga posjednika gradiva. Na taj bi način, uz standardizaciju i ujednačavanje prakse u javnoj arhivskoj službi, bio omogućen brži pristup podatcima o posjednicima gradiva, preglednije upravljanje gradivom izvan arhiva tetransparentno praćenje odgovornosti.

In the international context, the discoursecommunity Archival Education Research Initiative, made up of faculty members and students in the field of archives, works with a focus on the educational and research dimension, guiding the debate on historically marginalized communities and how they are (under)represented in archives. Considering that this debate has also been taking place in the Brazilian context in recent years, this paper aims to characterize this discursive community based on its actors and their scientific productions.The methodology employed is exploratory and descriptive. Domain Analysis was used through two lenses: (a) epistemic, focusing on the biography of the community members, and (b) scientific production, focusing on the publications of its members in the period 2008-2021.The results were systematized along two axes: the epistemic profile, which is a biographical aspect, and the scientific structureprofile. The members’biographies cover two dimensions: research dealing with community archives, human rights, critical theory, social justice, and post-colonialism, and research dealing with archival dimensions concerning information and communication technologiesand knowledge organization.

In their Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives, Muller, Feith, and Fruin compared the accumulation of archival materials with the geological process of deposit of sedimentary materials. This metaphor remained embedded in the European archival traditions and has continued to be discussed until the present, for instance, in the Italian archival literature. This paper explores, from a historical perspective, how and why this metaphor was adopted during the foundational period of modern archival science. The paper analyzes the links between geology and archival science as enterprises involved with historical reconstruction. The paper argues that as palaetiological disciplines, both shared a concern with issues of evidence in the study of individual, historically formed entities. Viewing the formation of archives as parallel to the deposition of sediments provided archival scholars at the turn of the twentieth century with a way of conceptualizing archival thinking as positive scientific knowledge of an essentially individual entity: the archives. This metaphor aligned archival science along with other historical sciences that could boast a measure of reputation and success. The metaphor also matched perfectly the modernist regime of historicity characteristic of the foundational period and culture of the modern archival discipline.