The diary method is highly flexible and can be incorporated into a range of research
projects. For example, diary researchers can operate under a range of epistemological …

User perspective and user studies have received noticeably little practical attention in
archives and archival science. The purpose of this article is to address the issues of …

The first part of this paper deals with truth, justice, memory and the role of archives. The
record speaks with multiple voices through many intermediaries. Those intermediaries are …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how archivists, records managers and
scholarly literature in the field (s) analyse how “participation” is discussed in the context of …

This study analyzes the representation systems of three digitized archival collections using
the traditional archival representation framework of provenance, order, and content. The …

Since the 1990s, the availability of online finding aids and digitised surrogates of original
records has changed the landscape of archival research. Progress towards the virtual …

This article examines how finding aids are structured and delivered, considering alternative
approaches. It suggests that single-level displays, those that present a single component of …

This thesis charts a course through an emerging landscape of online user participation in
archives, focusing upon user involvement at the point of practice known to professional …

“Participatory archives” is one of a number of shorthand phrases used in the archival
literature in reference to contemporary initiatives, which seek to engage non-archivists …

In this article, we examine the American finding aid as a form of genre from both a cognitive
and a sociological perspective and use this analysis to articulate some of the hidden or …