Archivaria

Richard Dancy

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Archives are more-than-human spaces, and scholars are increasingly exploring how traditional archival material can be used to understand the historical lives of animals. There are traces of animals in any archives because humans do not exist in isolation and have historically been ecologically and socially entangled with other species. There is, however, a great deal of scope to develop innovative methods for telling animals’ histories in ways that treat them as subjects, not objects. Using my PhD research into the historical problematization of cows in Kingston, Ontario, between 1838 and 1938, this article charts some of the methods I developed to better position historical animals as experiential subjects in analyses of the past. More specifically, I focus on how I found traces of cows in the Queen’s University Archives by looking at a range of municipal records, including city assessments and health documents. I also explain how I conducted a multispecies discourse analysis of those traces by using contemporary knowledge about the psychology and physiology of cows, employing map-making techniques, and crafting speculative vignettes. I conclude that tracing animals in municipal records, being sensitive to contemporary knowledge about them, and making use of creative methodological tools to visibilize their spatial and social worlds is both academically interesting and politically significant. These methods challenge the anthropomorphism typical of historical and urban analyses, consequently creating openings for different ways of telling stories.

Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder

Finding Traces of Cows in the Archives and Telling Stories Differently

在档案中寻找牛的踪迹并讲述不同的故事

Amy Marshall Furness

Archives by Artists. Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario. December 19, 2023 – October 4, 2024. Curated by DisplayCult (Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick)

艺术家档案：安大略省档案馆，多伦多，安大略省。2023年12月19日 – 2024年10月4日。由DisplayCult（詹妮弗·费舍尔和吉姆·德罗布尼克）策展

Robert J. Stark

Archival Historiographies: The Impact of Twentieth-Century Legacy Data on Archaeological Investigations. Olympia Bobou, Amy C. Miranda, and Rubina Raja, eds. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2022. xii, 180 pp. 9782503600185

档案史学：二十世纪遗产数据对考古研究的影响。奥林匹亚·博博、艾米·C·米兰达和鲁比娜·拉贾编。比利时图尔奈：布里尔，2022年。十二，180页。9782503600185

In recent years, the increasing volume of born-digital materials (i.e., those created digitally rather than digitized from analog originals) deposited in archives has fostered the development of new software-based tools and workflows for processing archivists. Archivists seeking practical guidance for preserving digital materials have a wealth of resources at their disposal, including many community-owned tools, workflows, and tutorials. This case study examines how archival standards and technological advances have influenced the semiautomated description of born-digital audio records through the lens of a recent project at the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections (CTASC) at York University Libraries (YUL). The Mariposa Folk Foundation Fonds, containing a large and growing collection of born-digital audio recordings, served as an opportunity to design and test a new software-aided descriptive workflow. The project leverages the programmable nature of born-digital materials in an attempt to streamline the time-consuming process for creating the item-level descriptions typically associated with sound recordings and born-digital records while also improving the discoverability of this material in the unmediated environment of online finding aids. This case study demonstrates how technology has influenced descriptive practices, with the advent of online finding aids providing increased access to archival descriptions, online databases permitting keyword searching, and tools to script metadata extracted from born-digital records enabling robust archival descriptions.

Katrina Cohen-Palacios

Sarah Lake

Leveraging Technology to Facilitate Access

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ISSN	0318-6954, 1923-6409
h-index	31

Publication Information	Publisher: Association of Canadian Archivists，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1996，Proportion of original research papers: 0.00%，Self Citation Rate:N.A.， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%

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Waiting for RiC

Finding Traces of Cows in the Archives and Telling Stories Differently

Archives by Artists. Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario. December 19, 2023 – October 4, 2024. Curated by DisplayCult (Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick)

Archival Historiographies: The Impact of Twentieth-Century Legacy Data on Archaeological Investigations. Olympia Bobou, Amy C. Miranda, and Rubina Raja, eds. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2022. xii, 180 pp. 9782503600185

Leveraging Technology to Facilitate Access

Waiting for RiC

Finding Traces of Cows in the Archives and Telling Stories Differently

Archives by Artists. Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario. December 19, 2023 – October 4, 2024. Curated by DisplayCult (Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick)

Archival Historiographies: The Impact of Twentieth-Century Legacy Data on Archaeological Investigations. Olympia Bobou, Amy C. Miranda, and Rubina Raja, eds. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2022. xii, 180 pp. 9782503600185

Leveraging Technology to Facilitate Access