档案学促进档案学作为一门自主科学学科的发展。该杂志涵盖档案科学理论、方法和实践的各个方面。此外，它研究了创建、管理和提供对档案、记录和数据的访问的不同文化方法。它还寻求促进世界各地与记录保存问题相关的概念、观点和态度的交流和比较。档案科学的方法是综合的、跨学科的和跨文化的。其范围包括记录过程相关信息的整个领域，分析在形式、结构和背景方面。为了实现其目标，该杂志借鉴了处理记录功能及其创建、保存和检索方式的科学学科；信息生成、管理的背景，和使用；以及不同时间和地点的记录创建的社会和文化环境。涵盖档案科学理论、方法和实践的各个方面，研究创建、管理和提供档案、记录和数据访问的不同文化方法促进交流比较世界各地与记录保存问题相关的概念、观点和态度记录过程相关信息的领域，根据形式、结构和上下文进行分析

Archival Science promotes the development of archival studies as an independent scientific discipline. This journal covers all aspects of archival science theory, methods, and practice, exploring various cultural approaches to the creation, management, and access to archives, records, and data. It seeks to facilitate the exchange and comparison of concepts, perspectives, and attitudes related to record preservation issues worldwide. The methodology of archival science is integrative, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural, encompassing the entire field of information related to the record process and analyzing it in terms of form, structure, and context. To achieve its goals, this journal draws on scientific disciplines that address the functions of records and their creation, preservation, and retrieval, as well as the contexts of information generation and management, and the social and cultural environments of record creation across different times and places.

《Archival Science》促进档案学作为一门独立科学学科的发展。该杂志涵盖档案科学的理论、方法和实践的各个方面，研究不同文化对档案、记录和数据的创建、管理和访问的方式。它还致力于促进全球范围内与记录保存相关的概念、观点和态度的交流与比较。档案科学的方法是综合的、跨学科的和跨文化的，涵盖与记录过程相关的信息领域，并分析其形式、结构和背景。为实现这些目标，该杂志借鉴了处理记录功能及其创建、保存和检索方式的科学学科，探讨信息生成和管理的背景，以及不同时间和地点的记录创建的社会和文化环境。

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Abstract This article starts from two observations about archival description. First, creating finding aids requires significant judgment and interpretation, and is therefore inevitably influenced by the positionalities—the perspectives, personal histories, and social identities—of the archivists. Second, finding aids occasionally call for revision, sometimes to fit a new data standard or reflect an evolving collection, but also to correct errors, reduce bias, and remove harmful language. In light of these observations, this article has two aims. First, it develops and presents a theoretical rationale for recording metadata about finding aids, including revision history and authorship, arguing for transparency about positionality as a response to recognizing the infeasibility of impartiality. Second, it presents the results of a survey of state archivists in the US, who were asked about their descriptive practices and their attitudes regarding disclosing their authorship of finding aids. Results of the survey reveal diverse practices, as well as some hesitation to embrace expressions of positionality in the context of description. The article closes with a discussion of options for conceptualizing metadata about finding aids and the professional role of archivists, concluding with two general recommendations.

Owen C. King

Archival meta-metadata: revision history and positionality of finding aids

档案元元数据：检索工具的修订历史与立场

Abstract This paper discusses the design and implications of a study that explored the potential for archives and library special collections to serve as historical environmental proxy data to support the reconstruction of the spatiotemporal spread of the American chestnut blight in Tennessee. By collecting, reconciling, and analyzing heterogeneous mundane primary source materials from 1904 to 1950, the major period of infection and tree loss, the case study reached beyond conventional evidence to ask new questions of nontraditional sources. QGIS and Python were used to reconcile and model nonstandardized and ambiguous natural-language keywords derived from these sources to identify trends and patterns that may not be evident from traditional document analysis. The paper argues that the contributions made by textual and visual information fragments found in these materials support an expansion of the term “proxy data” beyond what is currently understood as paleoclimate archives, i.e., physical, chemical, and biological materials preserved within the geologic record (USGS 2022). Such socially constructed records found in archives and library special collections offer additional qualitative and quantitative information about historical climate change to support modeling variable fluctuations over time. They can also provide a rich and dynamic context for the natural causes and human interventions that, in combination, act on the environment. However, the study also identifies significant limitations in the digital accessibility of relevant archival sources and a lack of specificity in their descriptions. These need to be addressed if integrating such source material into scientific studies is to become more widespread and scalable.

Nicole Wood

Archive and library special collections as proxy data: reconstructing the American chestnut blight through digitized collections

档案馆与图书馆特藏作为代理数据：通过数字化收藏重构美国板栗疫病历史

Jiarui Sun

Seventy years of strenuous efforts: tracing the development of archival higher education in China (1952–2022)

七十年砥砺前行：追溯中国档案高等教育的发展历程（1952-2022）

Nazelie Doghramadjian

Patricia Garcia

Ricardo Punzalan

An archival world turns: Armenian women’s archives in Southeast Michigan

档案世界转变：密歇根东南部的亚美尼亚女性档案

Abstract Trauma as a concept, a signifier and a frame has become increasingly visible in archival theory and praxis in recent years. A shift that is perhaps unsurprising given that society at large appears to have embraced trauma as a major interpretative category for our age. The recent spotlight on trauma can also be linked to accompanying movements in our discourse as we have begun to unpack and theorise the affective dimensions of records work and have moved towards more person-centred approaches. While the recent introduction of trauma-informed approaches to our field is a welcome development in many ways, this article seeks to critically engage with the Western concept of trauma to expose its intellectual lineages and the social and moral economies that have shaped its emergence in different spheres; and highlight how archival studies discourse on trauma is shaped in relation to different branches of Western trauma discourse. This article argues that as archivists and records workers adopt the language of trauma from adjacent arenas as an explanatory and transformative frame, it is vital that we do so in possession of an understanding of trauma’s conceptual legacies and in conversation with broader affective, liberatory and reparative framings. The article is written in the spirit of becoming truly ‘trauma-informed’.

Abbreviation	Arch Sci
Journal Impact	1.20
Quartiles(Global)	INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE(Q2)

ISSN	1389-0166, 1573-7500
h-index	39

Publication Information	Publisher: Springer Netherlands，Publishing cycle: 4 issues per year，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2001，Proportion of original research papers: 95.83%，Self Citation Rate:14.30%， Gold OA Rate: 42.42%

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Archival meta-metadata: revision history and positionality of finding aids

Archive and library special collections as proxy data: reconstructing the American chestnut blight through digitized collections

Seventy years of strenuous efforts: tracing the development of archival higher education in China (1952–2022)

An archival world turns: Armenian women’s archives in Southeast Michigan

Introducing the legacies and trajectories of trauma to the archival field

Archive and library special collections as proxy data: reconstructing the American chestnut blight through digitized collections

Introducing the legacies and trajectories of trauma to the archival field

An archival world turns: Armenian women’s archives in Southeast Michigan

Seventy years of strenuous efforts: tracing the development of archival higher education in China (1952–2022)

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