Designing the Archive Lightning Talks LT1, 24 October 2019

Session LT 1 - Lightning Talks William Magarey Room, Adelaide Oval 00:00 - 15:40 Project Alpha: Re-imagining digital services from the ground up Catherine Elliott Presentation Slides: https://www.archivists.org.au/documen... (Please note that from 13:55 - 15:40 there is no audio) The National Archives (UK) are embarking on a major project inspired by alpha.gov.uk, the single UK Government website which started life as a prototype built in public to test ideas and technologies. We're taking a 'blank sheet of paper' approach to envisage what we would create if we were to start completely anew with our approach to providing access to our collection online. 15:50 - 26:17 Front Desks and Reading Rooms: How Inviting Public Spaces Encourage Archival Use, Discovery and Visibility Zane Metcalfe Presentation Slides: https://www.archivists.org.au/documen... This talk will discuss an often forgotten place in public archives - the spaces in which archivists interact with the public. Compared to libraries, archival public-facing spaces are often obscured and underutilised. This contributes to the image of the archive as unknowable and intimidating. This talk discusses why sterile public-facing spaces both obscure archival services and disincentivise their use from the the general public and how adopting aspects of library design-philosophy can encourage public engagement. 26:17 - 34:53 A missing component? Student academic work in University archives Elizabeth Nichol University archives have traditionally focused on governance records, the development of the University and the papers of academics. While many now also collect the archives of student and staff groups, few appear to collect examples of student work as a core element of their collections. This gap in the design of the collections should be questioned and considered. 34:53 - 43:16 Design and Implementation of Humanistic Service in Archives Centered on the Public Needs-Chinese Practice Yuexin Shi - Yujue Wang Presentation Slides: https://www.archivists.org.au/documen... This paper introduces how to place the public in the center of collection development to carry out archival services from the experiences of Chinese archives. It includes how to acquire users’ needs, identify collection resources, design projects across borders, and introduce technology. Designing the Archive was an international archives conference presented by the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA), Archives and Records Association of New Zealand Te Huinga Mahara (ARANZ), the International Council on Archives (ICA) and the Pacific Regional Branch International Council on Archives (PARBICA). It was held at the Adelaide Oval from 21 - 25 October 2019. Info: https://www.archivists.org.au/confere...

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