Underpinning the archival profession's commitment to the protection of records as reliable and authentic evidence of action is a philosophical ideal of truth, whose roots can be traced back to the ideas of John Locke and others concerning the relationship between probability and evidence. Out of these ideas there emerged a set of inferences and generalizations about what makes a record reliable and authentic, which were absorbed into, and remain firmly embedded in, modern archival theory and methodology. The validity of these inferences and generalizations has been challenged by postmodern thinkers who point out that such inferences and generalizations privilege a particular conception of the relationship between records and the world, to t...
The notion of authenticity has become a regular preoccupation within archival literature, and concer...
Paper distributed for the Sawyer Seminar program, "Archives, Documentation, and the Institutions of ...
With the recent changes that have occurred within the records environment, such as the problems of e...
Underpinning the archival profession's commitment to the protection of records as reliable and authe...
Postmodern ideas have been dismissed as fashionable nonsense demonstrating academia's arrogant incom...
A trustworthy record is one that is both an accurate statement of facts and a genuine manifestation...
Privacy has a prominent place in the management of archives and consequently in the literature. As a...
What is the nature of the archive in the 21st century? What is the role of the archivist in a postmo...
Trust is an overused concept in our contemporary world. This paper explores the complex relationship...
practice rather than theory tends to dominate professional literature about archives. The papers pre...
Looking back over a career that has lasted 40 years (so far) the author reflects on developments in ...
This paper examines how modernist, Positivist ideas of objective, inherent, essential evidence, alth...
This article explores the relationship between the different notions of archives that emphasize hist...
The nature of archives has been defined over time according to the use made of them. The records of ...
Conceptions of records have progressed from their institutionalized beginnings as documents of the a...
The notion of authenticity has become a regular preoccupation within archival literature, and concer...
Paper distributed for the Sawyer Seminar program, "Archives, Documentation, and the Institutions of ...
With the recent changes that have occurred within the records environment, such as the problems of e...
Underpinning the archival profession's commitment to the protection of records as reliable and authe...
Postmodern ideas have been dismissed as fashionable nonsense demonstrating academia's arrogant incom...
A trustworthy record is one that is both an accurate statement of facts and a genuine manifestation...
Privacy has a prominent place in the management of archives and consequently in the literature. As a...
What is the nature of the archive in the 21st century? What is the role of the archivist in a postmo...
Trust is an overused concept in our contemporary world. This paper explores the complex relationship...
practice rather than theory tends to dominate professional literature about archives. The papers pre...
Looking back over a career that has lasted 40 years (so far) the author reflects on developments in ...
This paper examines how modernist, Positivist ideas of objective, inherent, essential evidence, alth...
This article explores the relationship between the different notions of archives that emphasize hist...
The nature of archives has been defined over time according to the use made of them. The records of ...
Conceptions of records have progressed from their institutionalized beginnings as documents of the a...
The notion of authenticity has become a regular preoccupation within archival literature, and concer...
Paper distributed for the Sawyer Seminar program, "Archives, Documentation, and the Institutions of ...
With the recent changes that have occurred within the records environment, such as the problems of e...