DO^riS karmac HFJ] DEVENT it Foreword Hogeschool van Amsterdam Archiefschool Faculteit Digitale Media en Creatieve Industrie Hogeschool van Amsterdam DEVENTit B.V. Developers Sc Inventors in IT Doxis Informatiemanagers Karmac Informatie Innovatie B.V. Picturae DE REE archiefsystemen PICTURAE DE REE - Erg goed in Erfgoed Almost two decades ago, in an article in The American Archivist, I argued that research in archivistics (or: archival science) would save the archival profession, because research is the instrument for experimenting, inventing, changing, and improving - and a profession that is not involved in "The endless cycle of idea and actionendless inventionendless experiment" (T.S. Eliot) is doomed (Ketelaar, 2000). Often, archive professionals do not realize that many if not all managerial or practical questions can be solved more fundamentally when one allows for some theoretical and methodological reflection. "Research," Barbara Craig (1996) wrote, "cultivates a habit of examining received notions for their continuing pertinence and relevance." (p. 110) Such a habit is essential for the archival professional who has to be equipped to deal with the constant change in his or her environment, effecting changes in records creation, preservation, communication, and use. As Arnoud Glaudemans and Jacco Verburgt declare in the first sentence of their essay in this volume: "Any account of present-day archives should not only address practical, operational or managerial issues but also explicate the relevant theoretical issues regarding the specific nature and societal impact of digital information - if only because practical, operational or managerial issues, important as they obviously are, always presuppose some underlying theoretical framework." Archivistics offers such a theoretical framework, drawing on concepts like context, authenticity, findability, and access. In researching the ontological and epistemological archive(s), archivistics applies the archival method that is specific for the discipline, but it also adopts methods from other disciplines. This is evidenced by the various chapters in the recent book Research in the Archival Multiverse (Gilliland, McKemmish, Lau, 2016). But not only in methods: archivistics is increasingly profiting from what other disciplines can offer in conceptual and theoretical understanding of archival phenomena. So, for example, in performance studies dance may be understood as "the choreographic activation of the dancer's body as an endlessly creative, transformational archive" (Lepecki, 2010, p. 46). This resounds archivistics' concern with the fluidity of the archive as keeping former instantiations of a record 'in reserve', to be released not as exact copies but as re-enactments. And just as "the originating instantiation" of a dance keeps possibilities for later re-enactment in reserve, so gets each activation of a record along the records continuum extra significance in the light of subsequent activations. Other 'archival turns' are also relevant to the theory, methodology and practice of archivistics. This volume shows what is brought to the archivistics' table from fields like media archaeology, speech act theory, information science, data science, philosophy, semiotics, genre studies, and organization science. At the same time, several essays in this volume indicate how archival theory and methodology can enrich other disciplines. In this way Archives in Liquid Times tries to cross disciplinary boundaries which so often keep scholarly and professional communities locked in their own discourse. Eric Ketelaar This publication has been made possible by: Postbus 125, 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands T+31 (0)6-21158210 archiefschool@hva.nl www.hva.nl/archiefschool Postbus 60, 3750 GB Bunsschoten, The Netherlands T+31 (0)33-2992277 office@deventit.nl www.deventit.nl Mailing address and visiting address The Hague Loire 126, 2491 AJ The Hague, The Netherlands Visiting address Zwolle Dr. van Deenweg 84-92 ruimte B.5, 8025 BL Zwolle, The Netherlands T: +31 (0)70-3177172 info@doxis.nl www.doxis.nl Pascallaan 68-74, 8218 NJ Lelystad, The Netherlands T +31 (0)320-286959 info@karmac.nl www.karmac.nl Droogmakerij 12, 1851 LX Heiloo, The Netherlands T +31 (0)72-5320444 contact@picturae.com www.picturae.com Lijnbaanstraat 2, 9711 RV Groningen, The Netherlands T +31 (0)50-3112600 info@de-ree.nl www.de-ree.nl Specialist in informatielogistiek Digitalisering Opslag Outsourcing archiefsystemen VTT

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