Essays about: "archival access"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words archival access.

  1. 1. Cloud Computing and the GLAM sector : A case study of the new Digital Archive Project of Åland Maritime Museum.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Ubaid Ali Faruqi; [2023]
    Keywords : Cloud computing technology; Amazon Web Services AWS ; Data storage; AWS Simple Storage Service S3 ; Low-cost-high-storage; Prototype creation; Preservation and access; Sustainable Digitization; Scalability; Readiness for adapting; GLAM sector; User Experience UX ;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the benefits and drawbacks of cloud computing technology within the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector of Sweden and Finland. It employs the case study of the recently developed and launched Digital Archive Project at Åland Maritime Museum which leveraged the Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology stack to provide a cloud-based digital platform for the museum's archival materials. READ MORE

  3. 2. Piecing Together the Past : A study about the significance of digitally accessing family records between Australia and England, and the key players responsible

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Natanya Berggren Newton; [2023]
    Keywords : Genealogy; digital archives; archival unity; Australia; England; information gap;

    Abstract : With the rise in popularity of ancestral research many people have had to search for some records abroad and are therefore reliant on access to archives in more than one country. One of the countries heavily reliant on archives abroad is Australia, a multicultural country that received many British settlers from 1788. READ MORE

  4. 3. “We Were Called Low-Grades” : Current Archival Approaches to the Digitization and Dissemination of Eugenics Collections

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Georgia Gilbert Gladitz; [2022]
    Keywords : Digitization; Eugenics Collections; Access and Care; Digital Knowledge Dissemination; Difficult Histories; Archival Methodologies; Statens institut för rasbiologi; The Wellcome Library; The Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement; The Canadian Eugenics Archive;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the current methodological approaches to digital access and dissemination of eugenics archives. It looks in-depth at four institutions from around the world which provide some means of digital access to a specific eugenics collection that they control: the Wellcome Collection within the Wellcome Library in London, the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement founded in part by the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York, the Canadian Eugenics Archive, and the State Institute for Race Biology at the Uppsala University Library Special Collections in Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 4. Gendering Ethnicity : Colonialism and Structural Violence in the Swedish 1928 Reindeer Grazing Act

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Alva Blomkvist; [2022]
    Keywords : Swedish colonialism; Reindeer Grazing Act; Sámi; Sápmi; gender; violence;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how the gendering of ethnicity in the Swedish Reindeer Grazing Act of 1928 (RBL 1928) was part of a colonial structure of violence. The research context in which this thesis places itself is in the intersection of previous scholarship on the colonial interest in controlling Indigenous marriage, and scholarship on Swedish colonial history in Sápmi. READ MORE

  6. 5. Under sekretess : Arkivariers resonemang och dilemman kring sekretessbelagda handlingar

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap

    Author : Camilla Persson; Linnéa Stensson; [2020]
    Keywords : Archival science; Archive; Archivists; integrity; law; phenomenography; privacy; public access; public access- and secrecy act; street-level bureaucracy; sekretessutlämning.; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Archivists tackle a variety of problems in their daily work, among them are issues concerning privacy-based material. This work demands a good understanding of the laws which govern this practice, laws comprising the Freedom of the Press Act (tryckfrihetsförordningen SFS 1949:105), the Public Access and Security Act (offentlighets- och sekretsslagen SFS 2009:400), and the Archival Law (arkivlagen SFS 1990:782). READ MORE