The email archives that people accumulate are a dense, complex, and highly personal record of their past interactions. As email becomes increasingly ubiquitous, these include not only their work interactions, but also their relationships with family members, friends, doctors, teachers, etc. However, current mail clients do little to support these archives beyond providing a basic filing and sea...

Ethnomusicological archives build the musical memory of the world, covering the geographical and the historical aspects of music worldwide. This article gives a brief description of the nature and the functionality of ethnomusicological archives. It reflects the current state of data infrastructure (policy and technology), addressing issues of access to archives’ holdings, of online visibility ...

The author visited Canada during March 2010 to study Canadian Archival system especially records management in archives in Ontario province; the driving rationale for the study was the realization that there existed very less or no archives and record management program in India. This study intends to report different types of archives and record management (ARM) programs in Canada, with specia...

This paper seeks to describe recent moves to address the need for digital curation training from within the UK archives and records management profession. It outlines how such training has been included within established archival education programmes, at Aberystwyth University and University College London, as well as discussing moves by the recognised professional body, the Archives and Recor...

THE Archives of the Middlesex Hospital has reappeared after a lapse of twenty-five years. Not many will remember the original Archives, but, judging from a brief introduction to the new Archives by Victor Bonney, many notable papers were published, and many well-known names in medicine today were among the early contributors. The new journal has got off to a good start. The papers in the first ...

Web archives include both archives of contents originally published on the Web (e.g., the Internet Archive) but also archives of contents published long ago that are now accessible on the Web (e.g., the archive of The Times). Thanks to the increased awareness that web-born contents are worth preserving and to improved digitization techniques, web archives have grown in number and size. To unfol...

The Eugenics Society's archives were among the earliest collections acquired by the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, in February 1980, just over a year after its inauguration. At that time the collection consisted only of correspondence and other files, the minutes and press-cuttings books being retained by the Society and consultable there by appointment with the General Secretary. In spi...

Archives are an extremely valuable part of our cultural heritage. Although their importance, the models and technologies that have been developed over the past two decades in the Digital Library (DL) field have not been specifically tailored on archives and this is especially true when it comes to formal and foundational frameworks, as the Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, Societies (5S) ...

A survey has been made of the holdings and preservation requirements of ten major European public service broadcast archives. The survey also covered 'the business they do and how they do it': the contribution made by the archives to the business of broadcasting. The archives gave their plans for future services as media moves from 'tapes on shelves' to mass storage and electronic distribution....