1st Edition
The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving
Preface by Christian Larsen
Chapter 1: The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving: An Introduction
Marianne Rostgaard and Greg Bak
SECTION I: EVOLUTIONS IN NORDIC DIGITAL ARCHIVING
Chapter 2: Archival paradigms: The past, present and digitized future of Danish archiving
Marianne Rostgaard
Chapter 3: The Politics of Archival Appraisal in Sweden in the Digital Age
Samuel Edquist
Chapter 4: A Continuum of Recordkeeping? The possibilities and challenges of Born Digital Public Records in Denmark and Sweden
Ann-Sofie Klareld and Marianne Paasch
Chapter 5: A bold attempt to kill off the registry in Nordic public administration: A review of proposed archival legislation in Sweden and Norway
Herbjørn Andresen
SECTION II: THE VALUE OF STANDARDIZATION
Chapter 6: Continuities and Innovations: Comparing Danish and Canadian Digital Archiving
Greg Bak
Chapter 7: "One system to rule them all”: The limited success of Information Control Systems in Finland
Pekka Henttonen
Chapter 8: From national to international standards in Norway: From documents to data?
Martin Ellingsrud
Chapter 9: Transforming archival records into historical big data: visualizing human and computer-processes in the Link-Lives project
Olivia Robinson, Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen, Nicolai Rask Mathiesen and Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios
SECTION III: GAPS IN NORDIC DIGITAL ARCHIVING
Chapter 10: “That’s Us with the Originals” - Authenticity and Interactivity in Danish Digital Archiving
Asbjørn Skødt, Digital Preservation Officer, Danish National Archives
Chapter 11: Untangling Nordic Web Archives
Caroline Nyvang and Eld Zierau
Chapter 12: Collecting Social Digital Photography: Nordic Archives and Museums Learn Through Participatory Collection Strategies
Bente Jensen
Chapter 13: Private audiovisual media archives in Greenland: A case study of TV-Aasiaat’s audiovisual archives from the 1990s
Aviaq Fleischer
SECTION IV: CULTURES OF RECORDS PROFESSIONALS
Chapter 14: On Archives and User Participation in The Nordic Countries
Isto Huvila
Chapter 15: Archival associations in Sweden
Lars-Erik Hansen and Anneli Sundqvist
Chapter 16: Archival education in a Nordic context
Anneli Sundqvist
Chapter 17: Digital Iceland: Why Records Professionals need to be Part of Digitisation
Ragna Kemp Haraldsdóttir
Chapter 18: The Nordic model: some reflections on its strengths and omissions
Elizabeth Shepherd
Biography
Greg Bak is an Associate Professor of Archival Studies in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada, where his research and teaching focus on digital archives, archival decolonization and the histories of digital cultures.
Marianne Rostgaard is an Associate Professor of History at Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. She headed the research network Digitization and the Future of Archives funded by the Independent Research Fund, Denmark (IRFD) and is currently researching use and reuse of digital public sector records.
“… a well-written book with interesting and burning questions where many aspects are certainly current even outside the Nordic countries.
Charlotte Borgerud, Uppsala University, in ARCHEION
“… rewarding in terms of advancing and challenging my own thinking and knowledge around pressing concerns and new approaches.”
Grant Hurley, University of Toronto Libraries, in Archivaria
“… samlet sett har fremstillingen lykkes i å se både styrker og svakheter ved den nordiske modellen på en god måte.”
Martin Bould, National Archives of Norway, in Aksess
