Current Projects

At the moment the section has planed to run the following projects within the term 2008-2012:

• Survey of archival research and researchers
  This project explores the critical issue of sharing and developing knowledge of research in the discipline of archives and records management across national boundaries, as the basis of future research strategies. Individual universities have begun to develop extensive research programmes, with successful grant-funded research, dissemination and doctoral research communities. In a few countries, there are emerging national programmes of research (for example the AERI doctoral project in the USA, the work done on the research strategy in the Netherlands, and the emerging UK educators research framework). ICA is in the unique position of offering a focus for researchers in our discipline working internationally. However the future development of research is greatly hampered by a lack of knowledge of existing research activity: sharing of this knowledge is an essential part of the framework for building future strength in our discipline. Working together with SAE, academics and doctoral students from three countries (Karen Anderson, Elizabeth Shepherd, and Christophe Jacobs), will build some of the essential infrastructure and facilitate future developments.
• Digital recordkeeping curriculum resources
  There is a need to develop avante-garde curriculum and resources for education and training modules about digital recordkeeping and preservation that can be delivered in house by archival organizations and professional associations at different levels of scope and depth. The modules would be offered in packages or separately. .
• Online Directory of Archival Education
  The first edition of the Directory of Archival Schools was developed by SAE and released on CD in 2004. The Directory needs updating and needs to be in a form that can be updated more efficiently and be accessible through the ICA Website. There still needs to be an option to create CD version upon request or if there is sufficient demand. There are regular requests on the various archives and records listservs about courses and being able to point to a source that is reasonably current would provide an effective and unique service.
• Training the Trainer Resource Pack
  The Training the Trainer Pack seeks to fill a gap in local level expertise in delivering training about archives and records. Some archivists and records managers do not have access to formally trained educators or are not qualified themselves, but have to give training in their own organisation or community. The Pack can also support educators, by giving them a range of learning strategies and advice about training in cross cultural contexts. At Kuala Lumpur initial plans were made to organise an Arabic translation, to broaden the language coverage. This will be actively pursued as part of the project.

URL:http://www.ica-sae.org/projects.html
e-mail to Dr. Karsten Uhde, as at: 03.11.2009