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Looking under the hood: unraveling the content, structure, and context of functional requirements for electronic recordkeeping systems
(2012-07-12)
Functional requirements for electronic recordkeeping systems have emerged as a principal tool for archival and records management professionals to communicate electronic recordkeeping standards to both records creators and ...
The interactive archives: social media and outreach
(2012-08-23)
In recent years, archival attention has turned towards the ways in which new digital media can be used to enable greater access to archives. The information in an archives means very little if it is not accessible and used ...
Medical records redefined: the value of the archival record in medical research
(2015)
Increasing the visibility and societal understanding of archives is an important task given the struggle archives have to show their worth and attract a larger and more diversified group of researchers. Researchers in the ...
Archives, Willard Ireland, Regina v. White and Bob, and Calder v. The Attorney General of British Columbia, 1963-1973, and the expansion of Aboriginal rights in Canada
(2011-09-09)
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This thesis explores the important role that archivists can and have played in the expansion of Aboriginal rights in Canada. It situates and explores the roles played by British Columbia Provincial Archivist ...
Towards transdisciplinary archival strategies: Canadian cartographic materials in a digital context
(2020)
Through an examination of the complex history of cartographic records in their archival contexts, this thesis explores the inherent subjectivity of maps, the archives that acquire them, and the digital technologies routinely ...
The role of archives in Indigenous language maintenance and resurgence
(2020)
For centuries, Indigenous peoples have been advocating for their rights to their land, cultures and languages in the context of (settler) colonial institutions that have repressed and removed these rights and knowledges, ...
Acute condition? exploring the status of corporate archives in Canadian hospitals
(2015-01-13)
In examining the status of corporate (or institutional, administrative or “business”) archives in Canadian hospitals this thesis combines an exhaustive review of the literature with historical and anecdotal evidence and a ...
Archival Foote-steps: the Lewis B. Foote First World War photographs and approaches to digital exhibitions
(2015)
The creation of exhibits and exhibit-going have been part of popular culture for centuries and have long been hallmarks of outreach to new audiences for archival services. With the explosion of digital technologies there ...
“Society seems like it doesn’t even know...”: archival records regarding people labelled with intellectual disability who have been institutionalized in Manitoba
(2017)
This thesis examines issues surrounding access to records relating to people labelled with intellectual disability who have been institutionalized in Manitoba. It argues that the devaluation of people labelled with ...
“Canada lives here:” situating the CBC digital archives within the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s archival landscape
(2017)
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has been a force on Canadian airwaves for nearly a century. Within that timeframe, kilometres of textual records and thousands of hours of audiovisual recordings have been produced. ...