[LINK] FW: Grey literature conference at NLA in October

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Paul Koerbin wrote:
> Tom K. wrote:
> 
> <<<It would seem to me that to ensure tenure survival, archivists need to 
> make themselves more relevant to the state by becoming peer reviewers of 
> Grey materials and cross referencing the apparent irrelevant material 
> with some form of hypertextual referencing "relevating" system and 
> associate same to our community id.>>>
> 
> By selecting content for preservation we are already reviewing it in a curatorial sense and making a decision that we think it has some research value for the future. But anyway, isn't this what APO does? http://apo.org.au/
> I think there is certainly scope for web archivists to add value to such portals by ensuring a chronological dimension and context (and whatever else that might engender).
> 

Tom's point seems to be about providing accessible Metadata to enable
location of relevant information at the right time.
It is the handwritten annotations in the margins of Official Reports and
Papers that are valuable. If we are talking about
dimensions, it is not only the chronological but the location that is
emerging as the space to be in.
Some notes: <http://ramin.com.au/marg/how-to-geo-tag.shtml>

I like the term relevating - this is certainly the key - and something that
needs to be handled properly in the Digitisation process.
Librarians and Archivists probably know how hard cataloguing is...but like
other hard stuff - this is often renegated first to someone without enough
knowledge to design an appropriate system then to "Data Entry" with tragic
consequences.

This posting points to an example, in my view, of how not to do things:
<http://aurora-i-t.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/leichhardt-library-have-now-released.html>

In a posting to one of Kate Lundy's Public Spheres, I wrote:
> An Action Plan for the Harmonisation of policies for the use of Digital images across agencies at all levels of government would be useful.
<http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/comment-page-1/#comment-104648>

Some other comments about Digitisation are here:
<http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/comment-page-1/#comment-106808>

> 
> <<<Could I suggest that disaffected archivists get together with 
> disaffected systems admins and utilise "grep" along with a few if 
> string="buzzwordoftheday"'s to regain ground stolen by Google and 
> forward copies of Archivists written abstracts to a non-affiliated Grey 
> think tank so the goodies can become accepted science.>>>
> 
> Is being disaffected a prerequisite for such action? If so, why? I don't concur that Google is winning or even competing in the curation of historical web content - though of course it is well placed to do so, should they be so inclined.
> 

Yes disaffection, leading to necessity is a good prerequisite for action.

My own experience of CRCs is limited to one involving [some university] and
[some professional association] -
I have no idea what the outcomes of the CRC were.

But serendipitously, the CRC allowed [some University] to enable me
to establish the ICT Governance Forum Mailing List and
something about the Duty of Care in ICT to get into AUSTLII
<http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/GovNeteJl/2008/3.html>

Due to some still mysterious event - the "official" Archives of the
ICT Governance Forum Mailing List  are no longer publically available.

However,  2004-2008 postings are available on the Wayback Machine at:
<http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://listserv.csu.edu.au/pipermail/ictgov/>

And More recent postings are available at answerpot.com.
<http://answerpot.com/forumdisplay.php?0-L207553-Ictgov%20ICT%20Governance%20Forum>

Marghanita
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