Archival Science in Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice

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.

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.

• PrefacePart 1: The Archival Discipline1. Knowledge Sharing: The Hallmark of a True Leader - Patricia C. Franks 2. Let’s Get Real: Opening Archival Theory to Empirical Reality - Kenneth Thibodeau3. Archival trustworthiness in the digital realm: Lessons learned from InterPARES - Maria Guercio 4. Digital Archival Bond: A Universal Bond for Digital Trustworthiness - Sherry XiePart 2: Archival Practice5. Archives in Latin-America and the Caribbean Region:The influence of InterPARES - Alicia Barnard6. Broadening the scope of archival education: Examining traditional approaches from a broader societal perspective - Shadrack Katuu7. Legislation: “Where Archival Universality Resides” - Elaine Goh8. Digital Images: Trustworthiness in the dawn of AI - Jessica BusheyPart 3: Interdisciplinarity & New Directions9. “The past is a foreign country…” yet the future must build its house there: Records and archives as critical infrastructure for future resilience - Darra Hofman10. Blockchain: The Theory and Practice of Trustworthy Archival Documents - Victoria Lemieux11: Artificial Intelligence and Archives: An alliance for holding the past and to inform the future - Emanuele Frontoni12: Facing Reality: Digital Archives in the Context of Our Climate Emergency - Lois EvansAuthor BiosEditor Bios