Research in the Archival Multiverse Edited by Anne J Gilliland, Sue McKemmish and Andrew J Lau Research in the Archival Multiverse Research in the Archival Multiverse Edited by Anne J Gilliland, Sue McKemmish and Andrew J Lau Research in the Archival Multiverse © Copyright 2017 © Copyright of this collection in its entirety is held by the editors, Anne J. Gilliland, Sue McKemmish and Andrew J Lau. © Copyright of the individual chapters is held by the respective authors. All rights reserved. Apart from any uses permitted by Australia’s Copyright Act 1968, no part of this book may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the copyright owners. Inquiries should be directed to the publisher. 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Dewey Number: 027 CONTENTS Part I: IntroductIon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Dedication: Archives and Indigenous Communities .............. 2 Shannon Faulkhead and Kirsten Thorpe Preface .................................................... 16 Anne J. Gilliland, Sue McKemmish and Andrew J Lau Acknowledgements ....................................... 30 Chapter 1: Archival and Recordkeeping Traditions in the Multiverse and Their Importance for Researching Situations and Situating Research ................ 31 Anne J. Gilliland Part II: archIval Intellectual context and theoretIcal Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Chapter 2: The Archival Method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Luciana Duranti and Giovanni Michetti Chapter 3: A History of Archival Ideas and Practice in China ... 96 Zhiying Lian Chapter 4: Recordkeeping in the Continuum ............... 122 Sue McKemmish Chapter 5: Deciphering and Interpreting an Archival Fonds and Its Parts ................................ 161 Heather MacNeil Chapter 6: The Archival Multiverse and Eddies in the Spacetime Continuum ................................. 198 Frank Upward – v – ReseaRch in the aRchival MultiveRse Chapter 7: Archival Turns and Returns .................... 228 Eric Ketelaar Chapter 8: Memory Research / Archival Research ........... 269 Jeannette A. Bastian Chapter 9: When is a Record? ........................... 288 Amelia Acker Chapter 10: Beyond Pillars of Evidence ..................... 324 Jamie A. Lee Chapter 11: Race and Culture ............................ 352 Kelvin L. White Chapter 12: Introducing Critical Race Theory to Archival Discourse .................................. 382 Anthony W. Dunbar Chapter 13: Without a Trace ..............................411 Anjali Arondekar Part III: overvIews oF the aPPlIcatIon oF research methods In archIval studIes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .432 Chapter 14: Historical Case Studies of Pre-Modern European Archives ................................... 433 Randolph C. Head Chapter 15: Respect My Authority ........................ 456 Wendy Duff and Kate Cumming Chapter 16: Negotiated Methodologies ..................... 479 Shannon Faulkhead – vi – Contents Chapter 17: Grounded Theory ............................ 516 Jenny Bunn Chapter 18: Looking at Archival Concepts and Practice in the Light of Speech Act Theory .............. 537 Pekka Henttonen Chapter 19: Archival Mediation ........................... 558 Anneli Sundqvist Chapter 20: Archival IR ................................. 581 Jonathan Furner and Anne J. Gilliland Chapter 21: The Use of Models and Modelling in Recordkeeping Research and Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632 Hans Hofman Chapter 22: Capacities and Complexities .................... 659 Joanne Evans Chapter 23: Designing Expert Systems for Archival Evaluation and Processing of Computer-Mediated Communications ...686 Anne J. Gilliland Part Iv: research case studIes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .723 Chapter 24: Contemporary Archival Diplomatics as a Method of Inquiry .................................. 724 Heather MacNeil Chapter 25: Exploring Social Complexity ................... 762 Leisa Gibbons – vii – ReseaRch in the aRchival MultiveRse Chapter 26: Investigating Socio-cultural Aspects of the Implementation of an International Archival Descriptive Standard in Korea .................. 789 Eunha (Anna) Youn Chapter 27: Bibliometric Analysis as a Tool in Understanding the Development of Archival Thought ............ 811 Kimberly Anderson Chapter 28: Public Digital Records Management in the Ugandan Public Service ............................... 844 David Luyombya Chapter 29: Documenting Communities of Practice ........... 868 Karen F. Gracy Chapter 30: Aboriginal Community Archives ................ 900 Kirsten Thorpe Chapter 31: Examinations of Injustice ...................... 935 Lorraine Dong, Joel A. Blanco-Rivera, Michelle Caswell and Joanna Steele Chapter 32: Examining Activism in Practice ................. 968 Joy R. Novak Chapter 33: Using Grounded Theory to Understand the Archival Needs of Geologists .......................... 998 Sarah Ramdeen and Alex H. Poole Chapter 34: Applying Q Method to Archival Research ........ 1028 Amber L. Cushing Part v: BIograPhIcal notes on contrIButors . . . . . . . . . .1053 – viii – Part I Introduction