SBS and Orphan works
Dear all,
Hopefully the way of the future for orphan works,
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Dear all,
Hopefully the way of the future for orphan works,
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OK Facebook Fans,
And don't deny it I know for a fact there are one or two of you out there.
ASA Facebook is up and running at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-Society-of-Archivists-Inc/263354157018725
Please 'LIKE' us because we can be sad and
Read more…A typical individual manila folder of documents I am digitising will contain single sheets and stapled or paper-clipped multi-page documents. The digital version of this folder will show the contents without the paperclips or staples but an end user
Read more…Tips on Archiving Family History, Part 1
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: 29 May 2013
Read more…Tips on Archiving Family History, Part 2
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: 5 June 2013
Read more…I've finally got around to updating various of my digital tools for use with NAA's RecordSearch. I've also given them a new home, along with various other tools and hacks for digital history. Head along to:
http://wraggelabs.com/emporium/Read more…
Stories in the 'lost and found'.
An article in The Daily Telegraph today may be of interest to some members.
Read more…Hi All,
My work is putting together a Disaster Kit (Large Bin with gargabe bags, cleaning materials etc)
Just wondering if any of you could recommend where to purchase supplies? Or can you order a complete kit?
I'm based in Melbourne.
Thanks in advance
E
Read more…Did people catch last night's Four Corners?
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/09/09/3842009.htm
The implications of how data is used (and by extension how they are captured, managed, archived and so on) are very interesting/terrifying. I wond
Read more…I am working voluntarily with The Lost Diggers group, http://www.facebook.com/lostdiggers
trying to assist with the tracking down of missing negatives of thousands of photographs taken of Australian soldiers during World War One.
Just in terms of pho
Read more…Dear Archivists,
I had to share this gem - the bold is mine
http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/05/the-humanities-digitized
"....
One way that scholars have sought to come to grips with digitization in the humanities, says Peter K. Bol, Carswell professor of
Read more…An interesting development happening in Scotland...
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files2/about-us/merger-of-nas-and-gros.pdf
I wonder if in the future we will see similar mergers in Australian states of our Archives and Registries of BDMs?
cheers
Dav
Read more…I've been reading through the information about the Digital Cultural policy and digital humanities, while at the same time answering some questions about routine scanning of records by government agencies. Looking at the documentation around digital
Read more…As Sebastian mentioned in a previous post to the Googlegroups Archives and records Australia on May 28th, there has been a subcommittee of the Editorial Board which was charged with looking at the issues surrounding putting Archives and Manuscripts o
Read more…Colleagues may be interested in today's press release from the PM - of note "Responsibility for the National Archives will move from my portfolio to the new Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport."
Read more…Online video (1 hr 8 min) from NARA published 19 May 2011
http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/?p=2938
At the National Archives, we’re always trying to think of new ways to make our historical records more accessible to the public. We have only a small fra
Hi folks,
and happy new year everyone :)
Would love to have a discussion with anyone out there who is facing fresh challenges with drafting DS with government agencies.
In particular, agencies are increasingly using schedules in ways that are much broad
Read more…Kia ora koutou
Does anyone have a policy on collecting research papers and data? Particularly within a Univesity environment?
We seem to be fielding more enquiries from researchers and academics who want a safe place to put their research and records s
Read more…The same great team from Denmark and the Netherlands, with support from the ICA, that organised International #followanarchive Day on 12 November 2010 have started to promote #AskArchivists Day on Twitter via this WordPress Blog.
Their Twitter page is
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On 29 March, Oliver Morley, the newly appointed Chief Executive and Keeper, The National Archives, launches the new Business Plan for 2011-2015 entitled For the Record. For Good.
'For the Record. For Good.' lays out The National Archives' strategy fo
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