Archival Science in Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice - by Corinne Rogers & Alexandra Wieland (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

This book brings together scholars and practicing archivists and records managers to discuss key issues in the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of the profession.

Review Quotes

This book presents a fresh look at the theoretical basis and future of digital archives. The chapters, written by experts in the field, cover new ground on changing archival relationships in a digital age. The authors explain how the international InterPARES project and the work of Luciana Duranti affected archival practice and argue that disruptive innovations such as Artificial Intelligence represent a new wave of change for archivists. This edited book offers sophisticated approaches to managing, describing, and providing access to digital archives. This book, written by interdisciplinary scholars, bridges the gap between archival theory and practice.

About the Author

Alexandra Wieland is the Processing and Reference Archivist at Special Collections and Rare Books at Simon Fraser University. She is also an adjunct professor at the iSchool at the University of British Columbia, where she teaches about Freedom of Information and privacy. She was a graduate research assistant for InterPARES Trust and participated in research projects on Plurality and Policy: Designing for Trust in the Digital Age and Historical Study of Cloud-Based Services.

Corinne Rogers, PhD, is the Project Coordinator for InterPARES Trust AI (UBC, 2021-2026), a multidisciplinary, international partnership researching the uses and applicability of Artificial Intelligence in archival workflows to ensure trust and trustworthiness of records and data. As an adjunct professor in the Information School at the University of British Columbia, she teaches diplomatics and digital preservation. She was most recently a Systems Archivist at Artefactual Systems, lead developers and organizational home to open source projects for digital preservation, AccessToMemory (AtoM) and Archivematica.