Moving into the Modern Archival Age

'Why archivists digitise, and why it matters' | Historical Transactions

It's prompted by Ian's new book, The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age (available Open Access via Cambridge University ...

What steps do I need to take to become an Archivist as an older ...

My partner is 54 and just starting an archives graduate certificate program. Everyone in my graduate programs were in their mid 30s or older.

The modern archivist: working with people and technology

It's not always easy. Technology is fast-moving and sometimes bewildering. But it has to be seen as our ally, as something that can help us to ...

Thinking about a career change : r/Archivists - Reddit

... move interstate to break into the field. So best to consider the ... I was a digital archivist for about a year at age 39, so not too late.

Do Archives Have a Future in the Digital Age? - EliScholar

Most prominent among the causes is the development and spread of new information and communication technologies, or, more precisely, changes in the.

How Archival Research Morphs in the Digital Age

Our society's historical record is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Think of all the information that you create today that will be part of ...

Four Things for Archivists to Know in the Digital World - PhD

What good are archives if the material they contain cannot be accessed or understood by future generations? This, too, comes with new challenges in the digital ...

Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive

However, this turn is not seen as a horizon of the archivist's task and mission, the pathway to a brighter future or even the end of a longtime chaotic history ...

The Role of Technology in Archives | Lucidea

Technology has opened new avenues for engagement through social media platforms, blogs, podcasts, and other digital tools. Archivists leverage ...

Historians' archival research looks quite different in the digital age

As our societies lose paper trails and increasingly rely on digital information, historians, and their grasps of context, will become more ...

Modern Archivist: I've Got 99 Problems but Boredom Ain't One

A full examination of all the new considerations would take a monograph or twelve, so for brevity I shall limit myself to two: the demands of fast-paced and ...

Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age - Long Now Foundation

Our modern records are far from permanent. Obstacles to data preservation are generally divided into three broad categories: hardware longevity ...

"Do Archives Have a Future in the Digital Age?" by Ivan Szekely

The rapid development of information and communication technologies pose significant challenges to archival theory and practice. The analysis of the ...

Preserving the Past in the Digital Age Is Still a Massive Headache

Technology has not made the problem any easier. Modern digital storage is still expensive and data and audio/video can be lost when older ...

Technology and the coming transformation of archival reference

With the continuing advancement of digital and technological innovation, archivists are having to deal with a myriad of new and, at times, muddled issues. The ...

Conceptualizing 21st-Century Archives

The digital age has spurred constant technological and sociocultural change. In Conceptualizing 21st-Century Archives, author Anne J. Gilliland explores the ...

Ethics of Archival Practice: New Considerations in the Digital Age

Archivists' work has always involved an inherently ethical praxis, and now is on the brink of a tipping point: in the very near future, ...

Conversations | Curator Talk | Archives and the Digital Dark Age

This panel explores the major shift of archives from analog to digital by museums, historians and artists. The acceleration of technology in ...

Doing Right Online: Archivists Shape an Ethics for the Digital Age

As archivists forge practices for ethical online behavior, some are discovering new ... Michelle Caswell, who teaches archival theory at UCLA and ...

Perceptions and Understandings of Archives in the Digital Age

In a 2000 public opinion survey commissioned by the Australia State Records Authority of New South Wales, 90% of respondents thought archives ...