R H's List: ARK - Education and Research

AC+erm – 'Accelerating positive change in electronic records management' – was a project aiming to investigate and critically explore issues and practical strategies to support accelerating the pace of positive change in managing electronic records.

Its focus was on designing an organisation-centred architecture from three perspectives:
(i) people, including vision, awareness, culture, drivers and barriers;
(ii) working practices including processes, procedures, policies and standards; and
(iii) technology in terms of the design principles for delivering effective recordkeeping.

Funded By: Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (Grant No. AH/D001935/1)

Project Dates: January 2007 to March 2010

"The Network is an informal association of institutes which are entrusted with the education of archivists. Originaly Hans Scheurkogel (Archiefschool Amsterdam) had the idea to establish the Network. In January 2005, he emphasized in a primary working paper how desirable it would be to intensify the cooperation between the individual educational facilities in Europe. The Network of North-Western European Archival Educators was supposed to be the first step in this direction.

The Archive School Amsterdam invited colleagues from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom and they, therefore, met for the first time in May 2005 in Amsterdam to exchange their views. ..."

Programme of Summer Schools / Workshops.
"The ARCHIDIS Intensive Program will confront the challenges of creating, capturing, managing and preserving corporate and social memory in our digital information society. Through a case-study approach, participants will have an opportunity to apply a comparative lens to issues which are central to preventing digital amnesia: the loss of corporate and social memory through failure to appropriately manage archival records in the digital environment. ..."

Open-access peer reviewed research papers presented at the forums are published online after each event.

"SAA launched the Research Forum in 2007 to provide an opportunity to discuss and share information about research initiatives with relevance for archives and records management. Researchers, practitioners, educators, students, and the curious across all sectors of archives and records management are welcome to participate.

Relevant research has implications for good archival practice and occurs across a spectrum of activities—from “pure” research to applied research to innovative practice. If you’re engaged in research, seeking to identify research-based solutions for your institution, willing to participate in the research cycle by serving as a beta site for research trials, or simply interested in what’s happening in research and innovation—then the SAA Research Forum is for you!"

An initiative of the Center for Information as Evidence, UCLA.
"A collaborative effort amongst eight U.S. academic institutions to stimulate the growth of a new generation of academics in archival education who are versed in contemporary issues and knowledgeable of the work being conducted by colleagues. The initiative seeks to nurture and promote the state-of-the-art in scholarship in Archival Studies, broadly conceived, as well as to encourage curricular and pedagogical innovation in archival education across the United States and worldwide."

"IIAS is hosted by the Italian State Archives in Trieste, and gathers at the present nineteen member countries: Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Slovak Republic, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine."

"The activities of the IIAS
The main activity of the IIAS is the International Archival Day. From 1991 an official magazine called "Atlanti" has been issued, dedicated to the topics on archives. In 2007 the first year of the Autumn Archival School was organized, a post graduate course held from October 16th to 23rd and hosted by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics of Trieste. Other top activities of the IIAS are the "Glossary of Local Therminology of History", issued in 1995 in German, Italian and Slovenian; the 1996 International Course on Archival Science; the 1998 Course on Digital Management of Archives; the 2000 International Archival Day held in Trieste together with the local Municipality, attended by the same Major Mr. Illy and more than 200 participants."