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An Archivist 💾 (she/her)

@archivist-liz.bsky.social
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#Archives (and more!) from a #feminist and otherwise critical perspective. Comments are my own. she/her/hers. #archivist #digipres #recordsmanagement @digipres.club

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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#ipres2026⁩ Patricia Sleeman of UNHCR described vendor lock-in as silent vandalism leading to information loss. They have faced enormous losses in budget and through that also staff cuts. 1/2
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Feelings about #gartner?
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I arrived in London for a two-day workshop. Not on #digipres, but on nuclear #fusion (and #archiving fusion projects)! I caught a beautiful early spring day and snapped the back of the Albert Memorial while walking in Kensington Gardens. Pretty cool!
A picture of the Albert Memorial taken from Kensington Gardens. In the foreground there are yellow daffodils and purple flowers. To the left there is a tree. It is springtime.
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
#digipres Stellenausschreibung am #Archiv der Uni #Wien zur Migration der Datenbank und zum Aufbau eines Digitalen Archivs. Bewerbungsfrist ist 2026-02-06. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Mitarbei...
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Looking to replace my iPhone 8, and I’m trying to decide whether to get a newer generation of #iPhone or finally switch to a smartphone with #Linux. I’m particularly interested in the #fairphone. Anyone have experiences? Recommendations? Preferred Linux distribution for phones?
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gcastaner.bsky.social @gcastaner.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Executive Director. International Council on Archives, Paris. Open until 13 February 2026 Call for applications TITLE Executive Director LANGUAGE French and English are required, with a full professional (level C1 or more) of one and at least a professional proficiency (level B2) in the other.…
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Executive Director. International Council on Archives, Paris. Open until 13 February 2026
Call for applications TITLE Executive Director LANGUAGE French and English are required, with a full professional (level C1 or more) of one and at least a professional proficiency (level B2) in the other. Limited working proficiency (level A2) or more in Spanish an asset. Source: PLACE OF WORK Paris, France REMUNERATION Monthly gross salary between 7 000 and 7 600 euros in relation with the candidate…
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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Apply for @atbw.bsky.social's Web Archiving School www.archivingtheblackweb.org/apply/
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Apply – ATBW
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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Times are tough #coertion #authoritarian governments. #Hope is powerful and it’s our duty as #archivists to open the door for our societies #Responsibility Trudy Peterson #ICABarcelona2025
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 Hope enables us to act. We are essential duty bearers for human rights - Trudy Huskamp Petersen
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 Archivists also need the authority to monitor compliance with retention schedules (and the responsibility to create records). If the archivists cannot enforce this, they may need to quit and/or inform the public
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 Keynote from Trudy Huskamp Petersen: Hope as an Archivist’s Discipline. One of our fundamental responsibilities is to make decisions on what to preserve for the future
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 Last paper of the first session: Prisons Museum: An archive with (spatial) site-documentation, records and witness accounts
The image displays a presentation slide titled "Prisons Museum: An archive with (spatial) site-documentation, records and witness accounts." It features three images: one of a person pointing at a wall in a prison setting, another of filing cabinets, and a third of a person in a room (prison)
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 The project working with the Moklen community in Thailand was challenging for several reasons. Moklen is endangered, and there is no written version of the language. Most of the cultural heritage is intangible. They agreed with the community on what to document
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Last day of #icabarcelona2025, starting with a paper by Naya Sucha-xaya on efforts with Thailand's Moklen indigenous and marginalized sea people communities through the "Moklen Community Language and Culture Repository" project
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Ending the day at #icabarcelona2025 in a workshop by @artefactual.com showing a prototype for Records in Common (RiC) in AtoM. This is definitely one for nerds, but it also makes RiC a little less intimidating
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Que legal! Shirt promoting systematic digital preservation from the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. The shirt includes a QR code to this link: proged.es.gov.br/preservacao-... #icabarcelona2025 #digipres
A man wearing a bright blue t-shirt with text about digital preservation stands with a purple medal around his neck. He has glasses and a mustache. The background includes seating and bags, suggesting an event setting. There is a QR code, linked in the post.
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 The second 🇧🇷 presentation was on a survey (?) of Brazilian archives on how well they fulfill requirements for trusted digital repositories (leaning on ISO 16363, Drambora, @nestornetzwerk.bsky.social , NDSA, Core Trust Seal). This was done in/by(?) the network Rede Cariniana
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 The first 🇧🇷 presentation was on a maturity model, which could be submitted through an online interface (that is still being expanded) #digipres
Slide in Portuguese showing part of a preservation maturity model
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 I’ve sat in on two presentations by Brazilian archivists on evaluating maturity and conformance to standards of trusted digital repositories. I don’t speak Spanish, but I’m mostly managing. But I’d be doing better with Brazilian Portuguese 😅
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 Response from a user of UNHCR Archives: “I was overwhelmed with emotions when I reviewed the information you provided. It's very important to me and my family... 1/2
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 The economic context of UNHCR: justifying money spent on (digital) archiving, records management and preservation: how many nutrition bars for those facing extreme malnutrition could be provided for that money?
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 @unhcr.org Archives have seen a surge of interest in research and academic/publication output
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 Now hearing Heather Faulkner of #UNHCR on the UNHCR Archives: 25 years of access and impact. UNHCR has suffered devastating budget cuts this year 💔
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Andy Jackson @anjacks0n.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
When searching for it, the AI overview seems to know more about the Open Fixed-layout Document (OFD) format than the search results! I'm guessing this is because the AI version is essentially translating Chinese sources that the search isn't showing me? #digipres
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 Alan Cobley mentioned an editorial on AI & the Caribbean in the Jamaica Gleaner (including risks of replicating & prioritizing Western thoughts & culture, especially based on the selection of training data). Also recommended for news on Melissa (BlueSky won’t let me post the url 🙄)
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It’s wild that Caribbean archival collections held in institutions of the Global North (aka former colonizers) are behind paywalls or only available by paying for paper or digital copies, including for those from the Caribbean. Example: digitized newspapers #icabarcelona2025
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 Archiving in the Face of Disaster: the climate conditions in the Caribbean, as well as the challenges of hurricanes, high winds, and in some cases volcanic activities. Extremely relevant as #hurricanemelissa hits Jamaica 💔
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It isn’t surprising, but it’s still heartbreaking that so many archives from former colonies were removed from the countries where they were created and/or deliberately destroyed. Few (almost none?) have been restored to the countries that should rightly hold them #icabarcelona2025
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 2nd Keynote by Alan Cobley on Decoloniality, Reparations, Digitization and AI: the new paradigms and new technologies shaping Caribbean Archives in the 21st century.
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Starting this morning at #icabarcelona2025 at a session on digital preservation. Learning about ODF/A, a format developed in China to meet Chinese standards. It’s similar to PDF/A. I’m embarrassed to admit I hadn’t heard of it before. #digipres
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Ethical Questions: -Are we using AI as a transformative tool, or a novelty one? -How do we ensure archivists remain in the driver's seat? -Are we using AI to illuminate archival literacy, or sidestep it? -How do we safeguard professional expertise in an AI-driven world?
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 Khali Allahmagani brought up an interesting use case for AI for transcription: Ajami Hausa (Hausa written in a special, Arabic script).
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 Just heard a presentation in Spanish by Riaño, John Agustin and Pirela, Johann Enrique (Universidad de La Salle, Colombia) on the possibilities and risks of AI for archives.
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Also, is it just me, or has the #icabarcelona2025 app crashed? Right now I can’t see what sessions are going on, so it’s a bit difficult to figure out where I want to be
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 The first keynote on AI-Readiness for Archives concluded with emphasis that by maintaining and preserving #fairdata, archives can be AI ready in a way that is tool-neutral. This is more important than being prepared to use specific tools - the tools will change.
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 AI readiness is not static. Requires iteration, adaptation, data stewardship
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 on the topic of AI readiness, open FAIR data is an important basis, including the idea that #FAIRdata should be machine actionable
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#icabarcelona keynote on the “openness” of AI
The image features a presentation slide titled "AI Openness?" It discusses the concept of AI openness as a spectrum, as outlined by the OECD, outlining key aspects of openness (or closedness) such as datasets, model weights, training code, fine-tuning, and documentation. Also, open source does not capture the specifications of AI systems
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#icabarcelona2025 1st Keynote by Merce Crosas on AI-Ready Archives
A slide from a presentation discussing the meaning of artificial intelligence (AI). It outlines four main definitions that have been considered: acting like a human, thinking like a human, thinking rationally, and acting rationally. The slide includes a checkmark next to "acting rational
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Going back and forth between devices, so if you only follow me here, you’re missing lots of posts. @archivist_Liz@digipres.club will always be my main account
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Can’t even begin to keep up with all the interesting presentations at #icabarcelona2025. Great presentation on geohistorical resources, again using @transkribus.bsky.social as part of an AI workflow.
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Absolutely 🔥presentation by @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social at #icabarcelona2025 of a new framework for assessing archival success, inspired by critical archival theory and methodologies to measure (the quality of) healthcare based on Structure - Process - Outcome.
A presentation slide outlining three components of archival work: "Structure" (context including space and resources), "Process" (interactions between archivists and creators), and "Outcome" (end results of archival practices).
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
First sessions of #icabarcelona2025. I caught (most) of the @library-archives.canada.ca presentation on the use of @transkribus.bsky.social and AI to extract information from structured and unstructured finding aids. Very interesting!
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Arrived in Barcelona for #ICABarcelona2025, but it’s too early to check in or even do the conference registration. So I’m getting a coffee nearby and dreaming of a nap and a shower. Sigh
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
#archivtagAT #archivtag2025 Andreas Rauber plädiert für Archivierung als intergrierten Teil von Informationssysteme. Er stellte auch kurz DBrepo vor
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Heute und morgen bin ich beim #archivtagAT #archivtag2025. Es fängt mit einem Keynote von Andreas Rauber zu Erhaltungsplanung (Preservation Planning) in digitaler Langzeitarchivierung. #digipres
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
#archivtagAT #archivtag2025 Andreas Rauber zeigt ein Beispiel von einem PDF, auch HTML hat oder als Virtual Machine gespeichert werden kann, die dann erweiterte Funktionen haben. Was passiert, wenn man so ein PDF normalisiert oder migriert wird? #wtfPDF
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An Archivist 💾 (she/her) @archivist-liz.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Last summer I visited the Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics. That visit turned into an interview (Allison Rein interviewed me). Very excited to share this. I hope it will help more people find our catalogue! #historyofscience www.aip.org/library/ex-l...
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Inside the International Atomic Energy Agency Archives Unit
An Interview with Archivist, Elizabeth Kata
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