https://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/69603 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:02:01 GMT 2026-04-17T08:02:01Z https://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/69606 Title: The Digitisation and Open Access Politics of Social Movement Archives Author(s): Marco Humbel Abstract: Open Access to cultural heritage, also known as ‘Open Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums’ (Open GLAM), refers to a concept that asks heritage organisations to make, whenever legally possible, their digitised collections available online as open and interoperable data sets. So far, the discourse on Open Access to cultural heritage has primarily focussed on major art galleries. This thesis enriches the research and the discourse on Open Access to cultural heritage by focussing on the perspectives of organisations which understand archiving as a form of activism: Social Movement Archives. I ask: What does and what could Open Access to cultural heritage mean in the context of Social Movement Archives? Through Participatory Action Research (PAR) with the Marx Memorial Library London (MML), seven interviews with Social Movement Archives practitioners and a critical reading of the academic- and grey literature on Open GLAM, I investigate the digitisation and Open Access politics of Social Movement Archives, as crystallised in their missions, digitisation projects and ethical and legal practices. Crucially, I highlight the relevance of Social Movement Archives as sites for questioning and reflecting on institutionalised archival theory and praxis. This thesis offers a critical intervention in Open GLAM through the microcosm of Social Movement Archives. Throughout this thesis I demonstrate a certain, while not complete, incompatibility of Open GLAM with the political mandate of Social Movement Archives and the practical realities they operate in. I argue to move towards a social justice framework for Open Access to cultural heritage. The basis for the framework is an enhanced understanding of the archival principle of provenance, grounded in affective responsibilities towards collections’ stakeholders. Due to the recognition of digital archival collections as means for political action a social justice framework also assesses the positive and negative impact of Open Access in relation to social justice. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/69606 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/69605 Title: The Mystification of Digital Technology in Norwegian Policies on Archives, Libraries and Museums: Digitalization as Policy Imperative Author(s): Erik Henningsen; Håkon Larsen Abstract: In this article, we investigate how digitalization has attained the role of policy im- perative in the culture sector, and how the imperative is influencing contempora-ry policy discourses on archives, libraries and museums (ALM-organizations) in Norway. We have analyzed policy documents issued by state authorities within the Norwegian ALM-sector since the time around the turn of the century, and demonstrate through the analysis that one must take three types of cultural pro-cesses into consideration in order to understand how digitalization has attained the status as policy imperative. Each of the cultural processes amounts to a form of mystification. Firstly, one must understand that digitalization’s ascendancy into a policy imperative is in part a process of imitation, of other countries and societalsectors. Secondly, one must take into account the conceptual framing of the po-licy discourse, in particular in relation to the epochalist vision that structure the discourse. Thirdly, one must take into account the process of fetishism which is at work in this policy discourse. Combined, these processes lead to digitalization being perceived as a force which is external to social relations, dictating action on the part of actors working within the sector. As such, digitalization comes effecti- vely to serve as an overarching policy imperative in the culture sector Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/69605 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/69604 Title: Translating the Universal Declaration on Archives: working with archival traditions and languages across the world Author(s): Claude Roberto; Karen Anderson; Margaret Crockett Abstract: Translating archival concepts used in the Universal Declaration on Archives into languages with varying archival traditions is challen- ging. It is essential to make the UDA understandable for the general public without altering the meaning of the original text while ensuring coherence with archival practices in all countries where the target language is spoken. Twelve translators were surveyed on the translation of key UDA terms: archives, archivists, records, memory and open access. They reported on archival terminology resources and strategies they used to resolve difficulties in translating English or French archival terminology into languages that do not possess precisely equiva- lent concepts. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/69604 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z