Archival Records and Training in the Age of Big Data

TY - CHAP

T1 - Archival Records and Training in the Age of Big Data

AU - Marciano, Richard

AU - Lemieux, Victoria

AU - Hedges, Mark Charles

AU - Esteva, Maria

AU - Underwood, William

AU - Kurtz, Michael

AU - Conrad, Mark

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - For decades, archivists have been appraising, preserving, and providing access to digital records by using archival theories and methods developed for paper records. However, production and consumption of digital records are informed by social and industrial trends and by computer and data methods that show little or no connection to archival methods. The purpose of this chapter is to reexamine the theories and methods that dominate records practices. The authors believe that this situation calls for a formal articulation of a new transdiscipline, which they call computational archival science (CAS).

AB - For decades, archivists have been appraising, preserving, and providing access to digital records by using archival theories and methods developed for paper records. However, production and consumption of digital records are informed by social and industrial trends and by computer and data methods that show little or no connection to archival methods. The purpose of this chapter is to reexamine the theories and methods that dominate records practices. The authors believe that this situation calls for a formal articulation of a new transdiscipline, which they call computational archival science (CAS).

KW - Computational archival science

KW - CAS

KW - archival thinking

KW - computational thinking

U2 - 10.1108/S0065-28302018000044B010

DO - 10.1108/S0065-28302018000044B010

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-1-78754-885-5

VL - 44B

T3 - Advances in Librarianship

SP - 179

EP - 199

BT - Re-Envisioning the MLS: Perspectives on the Future of Library and Information Science Education

A2 - Percell, Johnna

A2 - Sarin, Lindsay C.

A2 - Jaeger, Paul T.

A2 - Bertot, John Carlo

PB - Emerald Group Publishing

ER -