Reinventing the Archive in a Virtual Environment: Australians and the Non-Custodial Management of Electronic Records
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: Australian archivists and records managers have been among the foremost international advocates of ‘distributed’ or ‘post-custodial’ management of electronic records. Ten years ago there was widespread acceptance of their view that those creating digital records would continue to manage them as archives, once they had ceased to use them in the day-to-day conduct of affairs. But in March 2000 the National Archives of Australia abandoned its commitment to distributed management. This paper considers some of the arguments that have been deployed in these debates and explores what happened to the expectations of those who championed distributed, rather than traditional custodial, management.
Author: Don Boadle
Institution: Charles Sturt University
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1965645404