The Archivist’s New Clothes; or, the Naked Truth about Evidence, Transactions, and Recordness Export

@article{citeulike:1982611, abstract = {The electronic records projects at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) have been promoted as competing visions of the archival future. This article, the work of several authors with experience as both manuscript curators and institutional archivists, challenges the perception that the UBC and Pitt models are fundamentally different from one another, and argues that they share a similar and deeply flawed conception of the meaning of archives and the mission of the archival profession. Rather than accept the premises upon which both UBC and Pitt build their models, archivists should re-assert the broader and more practical theory of archives that has dominated much of U.S. archival history.}, author = {Greene, Mark A. and Boles, Frank and Bruemmer, Bruce and Daniels-Howell, Todd J.}, citeulike-article-id = {1982611}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {https://idea.iupui.edu/dspace/handle/1805/42?mode=simple}, keywords = {archives, electronicrecords}, posted-at = {2007-11-25 22:42:34}, priority = {2}, title = {The Archivist's New Clothes; or, the Naked Truth about Evidence, Transactions, and Recordness}, url = {https://idea.iupui.edu/dspace/handle/1805/42?mode=simple} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1982611 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1982611 N2 - The electronic records projects at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) have been promoted as competing visions of the archival future. This article, the work of several authors with experience as both manuscript curators and institutional archivists, challenges the perception that the UBC and Pitt models are fundamentally different from one another, and argues that they share a similar and deeply flawed conception of the meaning of archives and the mission of the archival profession. Rather than accept the premises upon which both UBC and Pitt build their models, archivists should re-assert the broader and more practical theory of archives that has dominated much of U.S. archival history. TI - The Archivist’s New Clothes; or, the Naked Truth about Evidence, Transactions, and Recordness KW - archives KW - electronicrecords AU - Greene, Mark AU - Boles, Frank AU - Bruemmer, Bruce AU - Daniels-Howell, Todd UR - https://idea.iupui.edu/dspace/handle/1805/42?mode=simple ER -