Now: Digital Repatriation/Return: Principles, Protocols & Practice by Gillian Moody, Senior Manager, First Nations Engagement
National Film And Sound Archive Of Australia (NFSA)
Co-design. Cultural protocol. Blacked out digitisation studio, clear signs indicating culturally sensitive work on-going. LTO tapes stored separately, not in the tape library. Digital files repatriated.
#ota2024 #OpeningTheArchives2024 #TandanyaAdelaideDeclarationSymposium
Invitation to #PARBICA2025, which will most likely be in Fiji.
(Me: SEAPAVAA is in talks with PARBICA to hold a joint conference in September 2025. Watch this space. #SEAPAVAA2025)
Opeta Alefaio, PhD at ANU, former director National Archives of Fiji.
Highlighted the state of Pacific archives, disinvestment, undervalued, lack of training and career path
Also lack of collected data for UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and SDG. Lack of evidence to support climate change work. Climate funds $10bil but need data and evidence to access it.
Used to have access to Aus/NZ archives leadership, but no longer. Growing gap CAARA vs PARBICA
Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration Symposium today.
The Declaration calls on the jurisdictional archives of the world to acknowledge and adopt the themes and commitments of the Declaration for immediate action. These commitments are: Knowledge authorities, Property and ownership, Recognition and identity, Research and access, and Self-determination
More about the declaration: https://aiatsis.gov.au/tandanya-declaration
Final session: Keynote panel - Opening national archives: A critical conversation.
Panelist:
Anahera Morehu (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti), Chief Archivist, Archives New Zealand
Timoci Balenaivalu, Principal Archivist - National Archives of Fiji
Mamao Tafao, Chief Librarian and Archivist, National Archives of Tuvalu
Simon Froude, Director-General of National Archives of Australia
Narissa: in my space, we haven't sort out the physical yet. Need to get experts from different areas. To work out what's gonna happen? Digitisation is great, make things accessible. But there's some concerns. Analogue still a big problem for us.
Louise: Confidence. Profile. Re: Paul - GLAM convergence. Archivist -> Digital archivist. We are good with aggregation. S/o to @tjowens - Lots to learn from archivist. Archivist used to dealing with scale.
Get behind the command line, take charge of the future.
@prwheatley: how can archivist in 2050 can take on the digital challenge?
Dr Elizabeth: Working together. Technology, tend to sort itself out. Core skills, foundation, principles, what really matters. Ensure we keep having these conversations. Bring people together, makes sure they understand.
Gillian: 2050, to survive we need to have self-confidence. Contested occupational landscape.
Louise: Part of the disinformation discussion. Who is the most authorative source? It's us - archives.
Anahera: Our babies would be users of the repository/archives. When should we start educate our kids?
Narissa: was asked, "Why don't you go to high school to go talk to them about this?" To start young.
Dr Elizabeth: RIMPA. Teaching archives to primary kids. Maybe projects of collecting.
Louise: been talking to ASA picture book about archiving. Our main role: why the recordkeeping mission matter? Rewarding moment. It's never too late.
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