00:00:00 - 00:25:46 Session P3 - Teressa Ward, National Archives
of Australia - Principal Partner Address
William Magarey Room, Adelaide Oval.
Presentation Slides: https://www.archivists.org.au/documen...
Government agencies are creating increasingly large amounts of information in complex formats, while government funding for archives and other collection institutions is shrinking. In order to deal effectively with the challenges of the digital environment the National Archives of Australia (NAA) is developing a new business model that reimagines its role within the Commonwealth, the GLAM sector, and in civil society more generally. In this presentation, the work of the NAA in transitioning to a ‘digital archive by default’ will be discussed, as well as how the NAA envisages its future role in the digital world. The NAA is taking the opportunity to refocus and rethink its business, and digital archiving from record creation in agencies to public access to digital records is the driver of that change.
00:26:10 - 01:36:20 Session P4 - ASA Loris Williams Memorial Lecture
William Magarey Room, Adelaide Oval.
Designing the Archive for Indigenous Language and Cultural Heritage Resources in South Australia
Presented by National Centre for Aboriginal Language and Music Studies (NCALMS), The University of Adelaide.
Presenters: Professor Aaron Corn, Rod O'Brien, Karina Lester, Eleanor McCall, Grayson Rotumah, Lee Amoroso with Nathan May and Courtney Laughton.
Indigenous communities have been creating, archiving and disseminating their own content for many years. In Australia, for example, local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archives are rich repositories of language, culture and ecological knowledge spanning a multitude materials, and digital and legacy formats. Being highly responsive to local needs and concerns, they significantly enrich Indigenous community life and create local employment opportunities, yet typically face persistent preservation challenges due to the remoteness of the communities that they often service and the funding constraints under which they work.
This lecture demonstrates the extraordinary empathy, creativity, innovation, experimentation, prototyping and co-design that informs the making, maintenance and archiving of Indigenous cultural heritage resources in South Australia. It explores ingenuity of grassroots practices that have arisen through development of recordkeeping systems, governance frameworks, programs, services, keeping places and digital-access platforms, and show how Indigenous community engagements, imperatives and initiatives are working to re-design the archive of the 21st century.
Presenters from the National Centre for Aboriginal Language and Music Studies (NCALMS) at the University of Adelaide discuss how Indigenous professionals and communities work with diverse collaborators in South Australia to implement cutting-edge approaches to making and maintaining local archives for Indigenous communities. To mark the 2019 United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages, presenters also address how the preservation, revitalisation and promotion of Indigenous languages are a pivotal concern for Indigenous archives.
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.
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