by Raffaella Vincenti | Sep 23, 2020 | Interviews
Here at Archivoz, we had the honor of interviewing Raffaella Vincenti, who since 2016 has filled the post of Office Head at the Vatican Apostolic Library, a posting officially recognized by Pope Francis in June 2020. Raffaella’s has been a brilliant career, from a...
by Hannes Dempewolf | Aug 31, 2020 | Interviews
Today, I am speaking with Hannes Dempewolf, Senior Scientist and Head of Global Initiatives at Crop Trust, about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the safeguarding of global crop diversity through the creation of a back-up archive of seeds from seed banks around the...
by Stephanie Kitchen | Jun 29, 2020 | Interviews
Today we are speaking with Stephanie Kitchen, Managing Editor at the International African Institute in London, England, about their African Digital Research Repositories project, why digital institutional repositories are important, and how they can effect change in...
by Monica Galassi | Jun 15, 2020 | Articles
Introduction One of my main professional interests relates to the intersections between practice and theory, and how we can lead transformation to reshape and support structural changes within cultural institutions. I believe archivists and information workers can...
by Geert Vermeire | May 13, 2020 | Articles
Libraries as Gardens is a sound project that wants to geolocate and map on a global scale the before, during, and after of the coronavirus lockdown, through people’s stories told and read in their personal libraries during quarantine and through their memories of...
by Maggie Schreiner | Apr 13, 2020 | Interviews
We had the pleasure of speaking with Maggie Schreiner, Manager of Archives and Special Collections at the Brooklyn Historical Society and volunteer at the Interference Archives. Read on to learn how she focuses on supporting movements for racial and economic justice...
by Melissa Bennett | Apr 8, 2020 | Archive, Articles
Write responsibly. Do not absorb the errors of the past but correct them. Finally, as archivists and researchers it is important that our writing does not entrench the errors of the past but aims to correct them in order to make collections, and writing about them,...
by Melissa Bennett | Apr 7, 2020 | Articles
Introduction Researchers and archivists working on colonial collections face a number of challenges arising from the historical contexts of these materials: where they came from, how they were brought together (or separated), and who has been their custodian. In these...
by Cristian Ispir | Apr 6, 2020 | Articles, Documentary jewels
The roll is a difficult instrument to manipulate and, as the National Archives handling instructions warn, has a mind of its own. The clerks were aware of its inadequacies and that is why they resolved to mark the regnal year and the sort of roll they were drawing up...
by Julia Mant | Mar 30, 2020 | Articles
About NIDA The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is Australia’s leading centre for education and training in the performing arts across the full range of dramatic disciplines including acting, costume, design, directing, musical theatre, properties, technical...
by Cristian Ispir | Mar 27, 2020 | Articles, Documentary jewels
At the turn of the fourteenth century, king Edward I enjoined his chancery clerks to “search all the rolls and remembrances, search Domesday at the Exchequer at York and all the other rolls of the Exchequer and Chancery, so that nothing is left unsearched, then go to...
by Jocelyn Arem | Feb 24, 2020 | Interviews
Today, we talk with Jocelyn Arem, founder of the Arbo Radiko archival storytelling studio, about leveraging the past to redefine the future and how she uses hidden archival materials to retell stories that otherwise might remain unheard. (Archivoz) What is archival...
by Hannah Nagle | Feb 19, 2020 | Articles
When I was 17 I walked into the art room at school one day to find a rubbish bag full of old black and white prints sat on my desk. My teacher had salvaged it from a skip on the side of a residential street full of the belongings of a man who had recently passed away....
by Matt Lee | Jan 29, 2020 | Archive, Documentary jewels
In January 2007 I moved from the UK to India to teach in the department of Visual Communication at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bengaluru. Walking through the city I came across matchboxes almost everywhere I went. At a cost of one rupee, these...
by Damilare Oyedele | Jan 15, 2020 | Interviews
We are speaking with Damilare Oyedele, co-founder of Library Aid Africa, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to championing the need for school and community libraries in Africa as a vehicle for sustainable development and a better quality of life for all....
by Vance Woods | Dec 20, 2019 | Editorial
One more year! We at Archivoz wish you all a happy holiday season, and hope that the coming year of 2020 is filled with personal and professional success for you all. We feel that the year’s end is a perfect time to thank our readers and contributors for having made...
by Florence Rasmont | Dec 9, 2019 | Articles, Projects
Photo: departure of Belgian workers for Germany, Antwerp, 1940 © CegeSoma/AGR Transmemo is a research project funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), which focuses on the memories of Belgian families of collaborationists and members of the resistance...
by Kathy Hillman | Dec 4, 2019 | Articles
To commemorate Keston College’s 50th anniversary, friends, former staff, Council members, and local officials gathered on June 20, 2019, in the Kent village of Keston in Greater London to unveil a plaque. Founder Michael Bourdeaux drew aside curtains on Keston’s...
by Benjamin Peuch, Freya De Schamphelaere Laura Van den Borre, Jean-Paul Sanderson | Nov 27, 2019 | Interviews, Projects
The inter-institutional project SODA (Social Sciences Data Archive) aims to develop a prototype for a data archive as Belgian representative in the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and beyond. To learn more about SODA, Archivoz’s...
by Hannah Nagle | Nov 25, 2019 | Articles, Technology
Working in digitisation as an Imaging Technician at the British Library, I know the digitisation process is typically a standardised and uniformed procedure. Metamorfoze, the National Programme for the Preservation of Paper Heritage in the Netherlands, provides a set...
by Vance Woods | Nov 15, 2019 | Editorial
It is a source of great pride to share with you that Revista Archivoz has reached a collaborative agreement with the Sociedad Española de Documentación e Información Científica (Spanish Society for Scientific Information and Documentation), Spain’s principal...
by Jessica Hilburn | Nov 11, 2019 | Interviews
Today we are speaking with Jessica Hilburn, of Benson Memorial Library, about Titusville’s Heritage Connection, collective memory, and how cataloging death can breathe new life into local history. (Archivoz) Tell us a little about the Heritage Connection website: who...
by Noemi Ortega Raventós | Oct 28, 2019 | Interviews
Interview with Mohammed Jasim, former Director of Mosul University Library, and coordinator of the international support for Mosul University Library. Mohammed will give an insight into the current situation at Mosul University Library, and the national and...
by Sam Bartle | Oct 16, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Projects, Technology
Introduction In June 2019, the East Riding Archives (Beverley, East Yorkshire, England) officially launched its new app, called ‘What Was Here?’. This marked the culmination of a 4-year journey in which we had sought to find new ways of engaging audiences with...
by Simon Smith | Oct 14, 2019 | Interviews
Established in 1984, the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) is Australia’s premier audiovisual archive, holding more than 3 million works, including films, sound recordings, television and radio programs in a variety of formats. Archivoz’s Evanthia Samaras met...
by Margret Aldrich | Oct 2, 2019 | Interviews
Margret Aldrich, Media and Program Manager with Little Free Library and author of The Little Free Library Book, speaks with us about book sharing, community building, and why open access isn’t just about the Internet anymore. (Archivoz) Can you tell us a little of the...
by Christopher Whitehead | Sep 30, 2019 | Articles, Projects
CoHERE (Critical Heritages of Europe: performing and representing identities) was a large, European Commission-funded project responding to an instrumental drive to solve critical social and political problems in Europe through recourse to heritage. The project was...
by Noemi Ortega Raventós | Sep 18, 2019 | Interviews, Projects
The interview is organised in two parts. The first explores the origins of the project and what it covers. The second considers the future of Qisetna and some archival questions. (Archivoz) What language barriers does the project face? (Juan Delgado) When we started,...
by Noemi Ortega Raventós | Sep 16, 2019 | Interviews, Projects
Today, we have an atypical interview, not with an archivist or anyone related to our sector, but with Juan delGado, a director and founder of a project called Qisetna. Here he explores Qisetna, an online platform aiming to preserve the cultural identity of Syrians...
by Chris Petersen | Sep 2, 2019 | Articles
On April 18, 1986, Dr. Linus Pauling (1901-1994), a world historical figure and the only winner of two unshared Nobel Prizes, formally announced his intention to donate his papers, along with those of his wife, to Oregon State University, his undergraduate alma mater....
by RMIT Design Archives | Aug 28, 2019 | Interviews
The RMIT Design Archives is based at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. Its collection focuses on post-war Melbourne architecture and design and represents multiple design disciplines—providing a valuable resource to support design research and practice....
by Laurie Bridges | Aug 21, 2019 | Interviews
Laurie Bridges is an Instruction and Outreach Librarian at Oregon State University’s Valley Library, where she acts as liaison to International Programs and Liberal Arts. She speaks with us about freedom of access to information and its relation to freedom of...
by Víctor Villapalos | Aug 10, 2019 | Editorial
During the last months, Archivoz has been settled down as a divulgation channel specialised in archives and records management. All of this has been possible, mostly due to the people following and reading us from all around the world. During last year, we created and...
by Asa Letourneau | Jul 31, 2019 | Interviews
Asa Letourneau is an Online Engagement Officer at Public Record Office Victoria (PROV)—the State Government Archives of Victoria, Australia. He specialises in creatively using technology to encourage user engagement and promote archival collections. Recently, Asa led...
by diego avella | Jul 29, 2019 | Articles
In a constant digital transformation environment, it’s mandatory for governments, economies, central banks and financial institutions to stay at the vanguard of the state-of-the-art trends and technologies emerging in this changing world. Also, due to...
by Kate Monypenny y Leonee Ariel Derr | Jul 24, 2019 | Interviews
Welcome to part two of the conversation about GLAM/R (galleries, libraries, archives, museums and recordkeeping institutions) in Australia. For those just joining us, GLAM/R is an acronym which has made its way into the vernacular of professionals from galleries,...
by Kate Monypenny y Leonee Ariel Derr | Jul 21, 2019 | Interviews
There is a clear intersection and cross over in the work of cultural institutions like galleries, libraries, archives, museums and even recordkeeping institutions. Over the last decade in Australia, an acronym has made its way into the sectors’ vernacular to refer to...
by Hannah Nagle | Jun 26, 2019 | Articles
During the Long Depression of the 1870s, a man named Edward Owens took up piracy in Chesapeake Bay. He had run out of money, his work as an oyster fisherman no longer able to support him. Born in Virginia in 1853, he chose Watt’s Island as the location for his new...
by Alex Green | Jun 17, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Featured, News of interest, Projects, Technology
At a time when the fragility and vulnerability of digital records are increasingly evident, maintaining the trustworthiness of public archives is more important than ever. Video and sound recordings can be manipulated to put words into mouths of people who never said...
by Özge Calafato | Jun 12, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Projects
Akkasah (an old word for camera in the Khaliji dialect), the Center for Photography at New York University Abu Dhabi, is home to an archive of the photographic heritage of the Middle East and North Africa. Founded in 2014 by New York University Abu Dhabi...
by Jarrod Harvey | May 22, 2019 | Articles, Technology
“People have had a lot of trouble getting stuff out of RecordPoint.” This sentence was a little worrying to hear. It was 2015, and our archive was contemplating digital preservation for the first time. We didn’t really know what it was, or how it worked. Neither did...
by Charlotte Berry | May 15, 2019 | Archive, Articles
The author of this article co-planned and participated in a panel presentation and debate on this topic in August 2017, and now in spring 2019, it seems an excellent opportunity to look back at the professional climate as it was 18 months ago and how professional...
by Víctor Villapalos | May 14, 2019 | Editorial
After nearly two years of operation, Archivoz continues to grow as an informative international project providing a platform for professionals from archives and information industries all around the world. It showcases their concerns and experiences as well as the...
by Evanthia Samaras | May 13, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Projects
Introduction: From film to archives, and back to film From a young age, I’ve been enamoured with films and the magic of bringing moving images to the screen. In my 20s I pursued undergraduate studies in media production and dabbled in many areas of film production,...
by Julia Ihnatowicz | Apr 17, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Projects, Technology
The Qatar Digital Library Since 2012, the British Library has been working with the Qatar Foundation and Qatar National Library to create and maintain the Qatar Digital Library. Launched in 2014, this free, bilingual portal hosts a growing archive of previously...
by Tuija Ainonen | Apr 8, 2019 | Articles, Projects
In November 2018, the British Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France launched two new websites that offer access to digitised copies of medieval manuscripts. The two libraries worked together to digitise 800 illuminated manuscripts from the period 700–1200,...
![‘[Insta]Poetry is not a luxury’: On the Urgency of Archiving the Diverse Voices of Social Media](https://www.archivozmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Instapoetry-15.jpg)
by Laura Gallon | Mar 6, 2019 | Articles, Technology
In today’s digital age, verse has gone viral. Since 2013, young poets have turned to photo-sharing platforms like Instagram to self-publish their texts and gain a wide readership. Fitting their words into the square Instagram picture frames, paying attention to font...
by Mike Jones | Feb 27, 2019 | Articles
For hundreds of years scholars and humanists have understood the importance of connected collections. Yet much of our documentation for archives and museums has become disconnected, this separation exacerbated by different technologies and distinct professional...
by Jessica Holland | Feb 13, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Projects
The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) Photo Archive has recently digitized and made available six collections of photographs spanning diverse subjects in archaeology, social history, anthropology, art and architectural history from 1944 to 2008 from across...
by Melanie Taylor | Dec 12, 2018 | Archive, Articles
Part one: Archive in Practice One dimension of photography is that it is concerned with the staging of a struggle against the loss of memory – an attempt to archive and preserve what is about to disappear for good.[1] Gerhard Richter These reflections by artist...
by Noemi Ortega Raventós | Nov 21, 2018 | Archive, Articles, Editorial, Projects
In October 2014, the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership launched the Qatar Digital Library (QDL), an online bilingual portal that provides free access to material from the British Library’s collections. The portal displays content related to the history and...
by Riley Linebaugh | Oct 31, 2018 | Archive, Articles, Projects
At the end of May 2018, a team assembled in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, in order to appraise, organize, and catalogue the High Court of Uganda’s archive. Over a period of three months, the team of 15+ archivists, academics, and High Court staff members catalogued what...
by Amanda House | Aug 29, 2018 | Articles
In July 2017 Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH), a major Heritage Lottery funded five year partnership led by the British Library was launched. The project, which forms part of the British Library’s Save Our Sounds programme, aims to preserve and provide access to as...
