[Personal_archives] FW: SISPA dialogue with Susan Thomas andbeyond

Hobbs, Catherine catherine.hobbs at lac-bac.gc.ca
Thu Nov 12 16:35:35 EST 2009


Thanks Jeremy.  Quite right.

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Subject: Re: [Personal_archives] FW: SISPA dialogue with Susan Thomas andbeyond


Greetings all,

For those of you interested in the Journal of the Society of Archivists article, but would rather hold on to your $38.34, a pre-print is available on the Paradigm website at http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/projectdocs/papers/paradigm-preprint.pdf.

I look forward to next week's conversation!

Jeremy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hobbs, Catherine" <catherine.hobbs at lac-bac.gc.ca>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:04 pm
Subject: [Personal_archives] FW: SISPA dialogue with Susan Thomas and beyond
To: personal_archives at mailman.yale.edu

> Good afternoon,
> 
> A reminder that the dialogue with Susan Thomas on the Paradigm 
> Project will begin on Monday morning.  
> 
> In preparation, you are invited to have a look at the Paradigm 
> website http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/; 
> the futureArch project 
> http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/beam/projects/futurearc; and the 
> Journal of the Society of Archivists article for those of you 
> who have this available (Journal of the Society of Archivists, 
> Vol. 27 No. 1, April 2006, pp 29-56). 
> This article is available as a paid download for non-members at: 
> http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjsa/2006/00000027/00000001.  I am again reminded about how lucky we are that back issues of Archivaria are available free of charge through ACA but I am afraid that the JSA is a different scenario.  Thank you too to Yvette for her suggestion of the Paradigm Project video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew0wq0I4n90.
> 
> I, for one, look forward to hearing your interesting takes on 
> the practical elements of dealing with personal digital archives 
> and questions you might have for Susan. How do the problems and 
> solutions presented by Paradigm relate to your own archival 
> situations? 
> 
> À bientôt,
> Catherine 
> 
> 
> > ______________________________________________ 
> > From:  Hobbs, Catherine  
> > Sent: October 26, 2009 10:16 AM
> > To: personal_archives at mailman.yale.edu
> > Subject: SISPA dialogue with Susan Thomas and beyond
> > 
> > Good morning,
> > 
> > Please join us for a SISPA dialogue Nov. 16-20th on the topic 
> of the Paradigm (Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media) 
> project.  Paradigm is a joint project between the 
> Universities of Oxford and Manchester to "explore the issues 
> involved in preserving digital private papers through gaining 
> practical experience in accessioning and ingesting digital 
> private papers into digital repositories, and processing these 
> in line with archival and digital preservation requirements" 
> (Paradigm website http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/).  
> > You are invited to review the contents of the paradigm.ac.uk 
> in preparation for the dialogue and to consider questions or 
> discussion topics which relate to personal archives creators and 
> digital records.  This dialogue stands to be a very 
> interesting counterpart to our earlier dialogue with Cathy 
> Marshall.  How can we take the theoretical discussion we 
> had about personal archives creators and their reactions to the 
> world of the digital and work with them in a structured archival 
> environment?> 
> > Susan Thomas is a digital archivist at the Bodleian Library, 
> where she is responsible for developing the Library's capacity 
> to curate, preserve and provide access to born-digital archives. 
> She currently leads the futureArch project, an Andrew W Mellon 
> Foundation-sponsored initiative to develop and embed a 
> sustainable approach to the curation of born-digital archives at 
> the Library. Previous projects include PARADIGM (2005-7), which 
> explored digital preservation issues relevant to manuscript 
> collections and collecting using the papers of politicians as 
> sample collections. Susan is also a member of the Data Standards 
> Group Committee of the UK Society of Archivists, and an Honorary 
> Lecturer at the Centre for Archive and Information Studies at 
> the University of Dundee, where she co-tutors a distance 
> learning module in the management and preservation of digital records.
> > 
> > Susan makes two additional suggestions for readings:
> > With regard to reading, perhaps it may be worth taking a look 
> at the futureArch project blog and some of the basic information 
> the project at http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/beam/projects/futurearch
> > 
> > If anyone wants to explore that further (beyond the website), 
> they may like to read the article I wrote with Janette Martin 
> back in 2005: Susan Thomas and Janette Martin, 'Using the papers 
> of contemporary British politicians as a test bed for the 
> preservation of digital personal archives,' Journal of the 
> Society of Archivists, Vol. 27 No. 1, April 2006, pp 29-56.> 
> > 
> > Next SISPA dialogue:
> > 
> > Our next SISPA dialogue in the Spring will draw upon an 
> earlier suggestion: Personal Diaries. It would be interesting to 
> invite Michael Piggott to chat with us during that week.  
> Any other suggestions you have for a guest for this dialogue 
> would be appreciated.  Certainly, diaries are widely 
> studied in the domains of archives, literary studies and 
> biographical research, and the topic may lend itself to the two 
> guests format.  
> > 
> > As always, I would be happy to hear any suggestions you have 
> about the SISPA dialogues format and future dialogue 
> topics.  
> > 
> > Looking forward to our discussion in a few weeks,
> > Catherine Hobbs (SISPA Chair)
> > 
> > Catherine Hobbs,
> > Archivist, Literary Archives (English-language) / Archiviste, 
> Archives littéraires de langue anglaise
> > Documentary Heritage Collection Sector / Secteur de la 
> collection du patrimoine documentaire 
> > Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada 
> > Place de la Cité, Room / Piece 598, 
> > 550, boul. de la Cité, Gatineau (QC), K1A 0N4
> > catherine.hobbs at lac-bac.gc.ca
> > Téléphone /Telephone 819-934-8331
> > Télécopieur / Facsimile 819-934-8333
> > 
> > Gouvernement du Canada / Government of Canada  
> www.collectionscanada.gc.ca> 
> > 
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Jeremy Heil
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