This time, on the link roundup, there are disappearing documents, distributed digital archives projects, inaccurate quilts, government records, and more! The Case of the Disappearing Documents [wsj.com] Archives Team: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack [youtube.com] What Facebook’s Changes Mean for Museums and Visitor Serving Organizations [colleendilen.com] Metro ‘quilt’ art draws national scrutiny for historical inaccuracy [nashvillecitypaper.com] University’s digitization […]
Tag Archives: records management
The word "archive"
There is a problem of language in the archival world. And that first sentence has already run upon it, and it is both an internal community problem and an external, general problem. We have lost control of the term “archive;” or, perhaps, we’ve never had control of it in the first place. There are two […]