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RE-INVENTING ARCHIVAL METHODS 2012 Do we agree on what the problems are?

RE-INVENTING ARCHIVAL METHODS 2012 Do we agree on what the problems are?. Chris Hurley. In the beginning …. The baby and the bath-water “How will we do that, Doctor?” “I haven’t the faintest idea .” “Do you think you can do it, Doctor?” “You’ll just have to trust me, Jo .”

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RE-INVENTING ARCHIVAL METHODS 2012 Do we agree on what the problems are?

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  1. RE-INVENTING ARCHIVAL METHODS 2012Do we agree on what the problems are? Chris Hurley

  2. In the beginning … • The baby and the bath-water • “How will we do that, Doctor?” “I haven’t the faintest idea.” • “Do you think you can do it, Doctor?” “You’ll just have to trust me, Jo.” • “Doctor, I’m coming with you.”

  3. Pre- and post- Bearman • The way forward came from the very place that was the source of all our problems – system analysis and design. • Many different applications to satisfy one design requirement. • I hope we never agree on the “problem” if it means going back to applying unvarying methods to varied situations.

  4. The “problem” as I see it • Back in the world of traditional knowledge – what to keep and what to discard. • Knowing what r/keeping purposes we needed to invent new methods to achieve looked to be the easy part. • Turns out, it isn’t.

  5. We’ve always known this. • Upward : the continuum maps, contains, articulates, and supports new approaches; • SPIRT : took one step further towards design solutions; • Barbara Reed : takes up the cudgels to remind people what we are trying to achieve; • We keep struggling to get that right because that’s the test of every “solution”.

  6. One illustration – ICA/Req • Incomplete statement of d/m requirements. • Someone has to keep up-dating our borrowings (and I bet they aren’t). • Harder for non-specialists to understand the pure recordkeeping requirements. • Blunts our ability to communicate with data managers and to tell them things they know little about and badly need to hear.

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