Australian Society of Archivists

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Livia Iacovino
Beyond the Tomb: Privacy, confidentiality, and long‑term preservation of and access to electronic health records in national systems ‑ a case study of Australia's HealthConnect project
This paper considers the extent to which the 2004‑05 HealthConnect model for secondary uses of identifiable as well as de-identified health data would have satisfied the patient's and his or her descendents' requirements for long-term privacy and confidentiality within the framework of privacy and archival law. It also identifies the difficulties of managing long-term access to electronic health records held in multilayered distributed systems such as the one proposed for HealthConnect.

Mary Neazor
Permanent Retention of Name-Identified Census Records in Australia and New Zealand
This article offers a comparative view of the treatment of name-identified census records in Australia and New Zealand, and issues around their possible permanent retention ‑ in particular, the tensions between and within stakeholder groups.

Erie Ketelaar
Access: The Democratic Imperative
The author argues that there is a crucial link between access to archives and human rights. The right to access information is an important aspect of democratic accountability, promoting transparency and encouraging full participation of citizens in the democratic process. Providing access is an essential part of the mission of archival institutions. The public has to trust the integrity of the archival institutions, and that depends on the trust in and the integrity of the archivist.

Chris Hurley
Archivists and Accountability.
This paper is not about how good recordkeeping supports accountability. It is about the accountability of those who set the recordkeeping rules. It is about our accountability: our role and function, how our performance is measured, how we are monitored and corrected when we go astray. It says we don't understand our role and function, we don't have benchmarks against which our actions are judged, and there is nothing to correct or punish professional deviation. In short, we are unaccountable.

Fiona Ross, Sue McKemmish & Shannon Faulkhead
Indigenous Knowledge and the Archives: Designing Trusted Archival Systems for Koorie Communities
This article begins by contextualising the Trust and Technology project with a discussion of narrative and Koorie knowledge. It then focuses on the findings of the first stage of the T&T project, presenting an analysis of the transcripts of interviews from the perspective of key archival issues that have implications for the design of archival systems and services for Koorie communities.

WayneDoubleday
From System to Network? Developments in the State Records Authority of New South Wales Regional Repositories
In this article, recent developments in the State Records Authority of New South Wales regional repositories system are considered, building upon Don Boadle's 1995 article in Archives and Manuscripts which focused on the origins and establishment of the only statewide archival network in Australia.

Crista Bradley
Meditate, Mediate, Celebrate: Public Programming in a Postmodern World
This article discusses three main implications of the postmodern approach for the archival function: increased awareness about the mediating role of public programmers and their tools, recognition of the close connection between public programming and other archival activities, and an increased justification to design and deliver programs for the voices and interests present in all segments of society.

 

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