Arrangement and Description in Two Dissenting Archives

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/arch.10675

Keywords:

Archives -- Evaluation, Social history -- Archival resources, Syrian Archive, People's Archive of Police Violence, Archives -- Methodology

Abstract

This article examines and compares two "dissenting archives": online archives documenting accountable records of violence against marginalised groups that fail to be recorded by official archives. Two exampes which are discussed are the People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland, and the Syrian Archive (documenting war crimes and human rights violations from the Syrian conflict). This article discusses the stated purpose of each, as well as their respective targeted user groups, navigability and findability, interpretability, standards, and reliability. These archives are highlighted as strong independent voices which represent a shift from archives as "truth" to archives as "story".

Metadata reused from the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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Author Biography

Nina Whittaker, Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT)

Nina Whittaker is a library assistant at the Walsh Memorial Library, part of the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT). They are currently working on a Master’s degree in Information Studies from VUW, with a specialisation in archives and records management. They are also one of the organisers of the re-formed Auckland Heritage Archives (AHA) group, which aims to build collaboration within the documentary heritage community in Tämaki Makaurau.

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Published

2018-06-01

Issue

No. 2 (2018)

Section

Articles