Khmer Rouge archives: appropriation, reconstruction, neo-colonial exploitation and their implications for the reuse of the records

Accessing and preserving information: CombiningICT4Dand archival science to empower marginalized communities

“…The first model that was developed was the Records Continuum Model (Upward, 1996, 1997), followed by several others including the Information Continuum Model (Upward, 2000). Throughout the past three decades, these models have been used to analyze diverse recordkeeping contexts (Frings‐Hessami, 2018, 2019, 2020; McKemmish, 2017; Piggott, 2020; Reed, 2005; Rolan, 2017). However, the use of these models has been mostly restricted to Western settings (Piggott, 2012).…”

Archives in a changing climate: responding to a diversity of environments

“…Recognizing that the uncritical reproduction of historical language in the description of archival resources may distress and alienate potential users, the Find & Connect team decided to adopt a policy by which the original titles are maintained in a field called "archival reference", thus ensuring that the documents can still be located in the repositories and providing evidence of the language used at the time, but also making it clear that these were titles included in the original sources and not titles attributed by the Find & Connect team. Like some of the articles included in the first special issue dedicated to I-CHORA 8 (O'Neill 2019;Frings-Hessami 2019;McKemmish et al 2019), Wright's article elaborates on the concept of rights in records developed by Gilliland and McKemmish (2015) and the need to ensure that descriptive practices, access and disclosure processes "do not expose or exploit those who are vulnerable to suppression, appropriation, violence, discrimination, or other oppressive or traumatizing acts, or re-traumatize them" (p. 120).…”