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Some Recent Publications

 

· “Control through Communication” in a Comparative Perspective, Archivaria 60 (2006) 71-89. 

· Writing on Archiving Machines, in: Sonja Neef, José van Dijck, and Eric Ketelaar (eds.), Sign here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2006) 183-195.

· (Dé)Construire l’archive, Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps No. 82 (avril-juin 2006) 65-70.

· Everyone an archivist, in: Niklaus Bütikofer, Hans Hofman, and Seamus Ross (eds.), Managing and Archiving Records in the Digital Era. Changing Professional Orientations (hier + jetzt, Verlag für Kultur und Geschichte, Baden, 2006) 9-14.
· Access: The Democratic Imperative, Archives and Manuscripts 34 (2006) 62-81.

· Archives in the Digital Age: New Uses for an Old Science  Archives & Social Studies: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, vol. 1, no. 0 (March 2007) 167-191.
· Archive im digitalen Zeitalter: “New Uses for an Old Science”, Archivpflege in Westfalen-Lippe 66 (April 2007) 4-11. 

· The Return of Dutch Archives from Moscow. In: Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, F.J. Hoogewoud and Eric Ketelaar (eds.), Returned from Russia. Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues (Institute of Art and Law, Builth Wells U.K. 2007)  241-249.

· Archives as Spaces of Memory, Journal of the Society of Archivists 29 (2008) 9-27.

· Hrvatsko arhivsko zakonodavstvo I praksa: izmedu sna I jave / Archival legislation and practice in Croatia: between Dream and Deed, Arhivski Vjesnik/Bulletin d’archives, 51 (2008) 129-148.

· The Genealogical Gaze: Family Identities and Family Archives in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries ,  Libraries & the Cultural Record 44, 1 (2009) 9-28.

· A living archive, shared by communities of records, in: Jeannette A. Bastian and Ben Alexander (eds.), Community archives. The shaping of memory (London, Facet 2009)  109-132.

 

 

 

Selected Publications 

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General

· The Archival Image. Collected essays [with a preface by A. NUIS and an introduction by YVONNE BOS-ROPS] (Hilversum 1997) 125 pp.

· The Difference Best Postponed ? Cultures and Comparative Archival Science, Archivaria 44 (1997) 142-148, repr. in: P.J. Horsman - F.C.J. Ketelaar - T.H.P.M. Thomassen (ed.), Naar een nieuw paradigma in de archivistiek. Jaarboek 1999 Stichting Archiefpublicaties ('s-Gravenhage 1999) 21-27. 

· Unikaalnost archivnoi naoeki (The unique character of archival science), in: Meztunarodnaja naoetsjnaja konferentsija 'Ístoriki i archivisti' (International scientific conference 'Historians and archivists') (Moskwa 1998) 77-81. 

· Archivistics Research Saving the Profession. The American Archivist 63 (Fall 2000) 322-340.

·  Research in and on archives. Paper presented at the National Scholarly Communications Forum’Round Table, Canberra, 1 november 1999. 

·  Archivists in Communion. Address delivered at the opening of the XIVth International Congress on Archives of the International Council on Archives, Seville, 22 September 2000, Archievenblad 104/9 (november 2000) 10-11.

·  Tacit Narratives: The Meanings of Archives.  Archival Science 1 (2001) 131-141. Spanish translation: ‘Narrativas tácitas: los significados de los archivos’. In: Luis Hernández Olivera and Terry Cook (eds.), Combates por la memoria. Archivística de la posmodernidad  (Asociación de Archiveros de Castilla y León, Salamanca 2007) 137-147.
·  Time future contained in time past. Archival science in the 21st century,  Journal of the Japan Society for Archival Science 1 (2004) 20-35 [Japanese translation ibidem, 4-19]. Reprinted in: Masahito Ando (ed.), Introduction to Archival Science. Memory and Records into the Future. An anthology of articles translated into Japanese (Nichigai Associates, Tokyo 2006) 26-46.

·Archives in the Digital Age: New Uses for an Old Science  Archives & Social Studies: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, vol. 1, no. 0 (March 2007) 167-191
·Archive im digitalen Zeitalter: “New Uses for an Old Science”, Archivpflege in Westfalen-Lippe 66 (April 2007) 4-11.

 

 

 

Social and Cultural Archivistics

 

· Archives of the people, by the people, for the people, in: S.A. Argiefblad / S.A. Archives Journal 34 (1992) 5-16. repr. in ERIC KETELAAR, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 15-26. 

· Von Papierarchiven zu Menschenarchiven. Zur Eröffnung des 7. Deutsch-niederländischen Archivsymposiums, in: Archivpflege in Westfalen und Lippe, Heft 37 (April 1993) 2-3.

· Archivalization and Archiving,  Archives and manuscripts. The Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists 27 (1999) 54-61.
· Ethnologie archivistique, La Gazette des archives nr. 192 (2001) 7-20.

· Archival Temples, Archival Prisons:  Modes of Power and Protection, Archival Science 2 (2002) 221-238.
· Empowering Archives: What Society Expects of Archivists, in: Susan Lloyd (red.), Past Caring? What does Society Expect of Archivists? Proceedings of the Australian Society of Archivists Conference. Sydney 13-17 August 2002 (Canberra: Australian Society of Archivists 2002) 11-27.

· Recordkeeping and Societal Power, in: Sue McKemmish, Michael Piggott, Barbara Reed & Frank Upward (eds.), Archives: Recordkeeping in Society (Wagga-Wagga, Charles Sturt University 2005) (Topics in Australasian Library and Information Studies, No. 24) 277-298.

Spanish translation: ‘Gestión de registros y poder social’. In: Sue McKemmish, Michael Piggott, Barbara Reed, Frank Upward (eds.), Archivos: gestión de registros en sociedad  (Concejalía de Cultura: 3000 Informática, Cartagena 2007) 379-404.

· Sharing: Collected Memories in Communities of Records, Archives and Manuscripts 33 (2005) 44-61.
· [with Sue McKemmish, and Anne Gilliland-Swetland] “Communities of Memory”: Pluralising Archival Research and Education Agendas, Archives and Manuscripts 33 (2005) 146-175.
·The Panoptical Archive, in: Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg (eds.), Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory. Essays from the Sawyer Seminar (The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2006) 144-150.
· [with Victor-Jan Vos] Amsterdam Communities' Memories: Research into how Modern Media can be applied to Archive Community. In: Larry Stillman and Graeme Johanson (eds.), Memory Constructing and Sharing Memory: Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment: Selected papers from the 3rd Prato International Community Informatics Conference; Community Informatics Research Network 9- 11 October 2006 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle UK 2007).

· Archives as Spaces of Memory, Journal of the Society of Archivists 29 (2008) 9-27.

· A living archive, shared by communities of records, in: Jeannette A. Bastian and Ben Alexander (eds.), Community archives. The shaping of memory (London, Facet 2009)  109-132.

 

 

 




 

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Archival History

· Muller, Feith and Fruin, in: Miscellanea Carlos Wyffels (=Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique  57 (1986)) 255-268. repr. in ERIC KETELAAR, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 43-53. 

· Al pie del cañón: el papel de los archivistas a la guerra, in: ALA 1991 nr. 17, 31-35. 

· Archivists in War, in: Interdependence of Archives. Proceedings of the twenty nineth, thirtieth and thirty first International Conferences of the Round Table on Archives (special issue of Janus, 1998) 159-163. 

· Archival Theory and the Dutch Manual, The Difference Best Postponed ? Cultures and Comparative Archival Science, in: Archivaria 41 (Spring 1996) 31-40. repr. in ERIC KETELAAR, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 55-65. 

· The Archivist's Creed, Task and Aim. Revisiting the first two international congresses 1950, 1953, in: F. DAELEMANS (ed.), Miscellanea in honorem Caroli Kecskeméti (Bruxelles-Brussel 1998) (= Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique, numéro special 54) 241-251.
· [with Peter Horsman and Theo Thomassen] Introduction to the 2003 Reissue, in: S. Muller, J.A. Feith and R. Fruin, Manual for the arrangement and description of archives. Translation of the second edition by Arthur H. Leavitt, with new introductions… (Society of American Archivists, Chicago 2003) V-XXXIIII.

Reprinted as “New Respect for the Old Order: The Context of the Dutch Manual”,  American Archivist 66 (2003) 249-270.

· The Genealogical Gaze: Family Identities and Family Archives in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries ,  Libraries & the Cultural Record 44, 1 (2009) 9-28.

 


 


 

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History of Recordkeeping

· Recordkeeping Systems and Office Technology in Dutch Public Administration, 1823-1950, in: Jahrbuch für europäische Verwaltungsgeschichte/Yearbook of European Administrative History 9 (1997) 213-222.
· “Control through Communication” in a Comparative Perspective, Archivaria 60 (2006) 71-89. 


 

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Archival Policies and Systems

· Archivstatistik als Instrument archivischer Planung, dargestellt insbesondere am Beispiel des niederländischen Archivwesens, in: Der Archivar, 33 (1980) 39-48. 

· A guide for surveying archival and records management systems and services; a RAMP study [co-author Frank B. EVANS] (Paris 1983) 28 pp. = Guiá para la encuesta sobre los sistemas y servicios de la gestión de documentos y la administración de archivos. Un estudio de RAMP (París 1983) 41 pp.= Guide pour inventorier les systèmes et services d'administration d'archives et de gestion de documents: une étude RAMP (Paris 1983) 43 pp. 

· Centralization, decentralization and the Archives in the Netherlands, in: Janus, 3 (1986) 16-25. N.B. Updated version in: ERIC KETELAAR, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 93-101. 

· Centralisation, décentralisation et archives, in: Centralisation, décentralisation et archives. Actes de la vingt-quatrième conférence internationale de la Table Ronde des Archives (Paris 1987)17-45 = Centralization/decentralization and archives, ibidem, 91-116. 

· Financing archival services, in: Financing archival services. Proceedings of the twenty-eight International Conferences of the Round Table on Archives (special issue of Janus, 1998) 5-22 = Le financement des archives, in: Le financement des archives, in: Actes de la vingt-huitième conférence internationale de la Round Table des Archives (Janus 1998) 5-27. 


 

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Archival Education and Ethics

· Archival training in Indonesia (Paris 1980) 28 pp. 

· Das Berufsbild des Archivars in den Niederlanden heute und in der Zukunft, in: Archivpflege in Westfalen und Lippe nr. 25 (Mai 1986) 35-37. repr. in: ERIC KETELAAR, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 109-114. 

· The archival image, in: The American Archivist 58 (4)(Fall 1995) 454-456, repr. with footnotes added, in: ERIC KETELAAR, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 115-118. 

· Professional ethics: the moral defence of the Archivist .Paper presented at the conference "Cyber, Hyper or Resolutely Jurassic ? Archivists and the Millennium", University College Dublin, 3 oktober 1998.
Bildung der Archive und Ausbildung der Archivare: neue Identitäten

· Bildung der Archive und Ausbildung der Archivare: neue Identitäten,  in:  Archivpflege in Westfalen und Lippe
 
nr. 51 (Oktober 1999) 40-44.

· Training, refresher courses and additional training. Text presented...at the European Summit in Brussels...(Algemeen Rijksarchief - Archives Générales du Royaume, Brussel-Bruxelles 2002) 11 pp. (European Bureau of National Archivists 1).

· The Ethics of Preserving and Destroying Private Archives, Archives News/Argiefnuus 43/4 (June 2001) [Festschrift Verne Harris] 70-77. 

· [review of] Verne Harris, Exploring Archives: An Introduction to Archival Ideas and Practice in South Africa, Archivaria 51 (Spring 2001) 195-198. 

· [review of] Tomas A. Lipinski (ed.), Libraries, Museums, and Archives. Legal issues and Ethical Challenges in the New Information Era (The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, and London, 2002), Journal of the Society of Archivists 23 (2002) 272.

 


 

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Archives and Records Management Law

·  Archival and records management legislation and regulations; a RAMP study with guidelines (Paris 1985) 121 pp. = Legislación y reglamentos en materia de archivos y gestión de documentos: estudio RAMP con principes rectores (París 1985) 90 pp. = Législation et réglementation en matière d'archives et de gestion des documents: une étude RAMP accompagnée de principes directeurs (Paris 1986) 83 pp. A Bulgarian translation of chapters 1.1 and 1.2 in: Archiven pregled 1991, 25-32.

· Préface, in: C. COUTURE - M. LAJEUNESSE, Législations et politiques archivistiques dans le monde (Québec 1993) 5-6.

· The Archivist and the Legislator, in: Der Archivar 49 (1996) 599-603. 

· Hrvatsko arhivsko zakonodavstvo I praksa: izmedu sna I jave / Archival legislation and practice in Croatia: between Dream and Deed, Arhivski Vjesnik/Bulletin d’archives, 51 (2008) 129-148.


 

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Creation of Records
 

· Can we trust information? Paper presented at the First International Congress on Ethical, Legal, and Societal Aspects of Digital Information,Monte Carlo, 10-12 March 1997, publ. in: The International Information & Library Review 29 (1997) 333-338; repr. (with footnotes added) in: Eric Ketelaar, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 119-124. 

· Archiving Society, in: Annual report 1998 Brill (Leiden 1999) 41-56. 

· The Second Memory, in: Annual report 1999 Brill (Leiden 2000) 49-64. 

· Forming Archives, in: Annual report 2000 Brill (Leiden 2001) 49-64.

· The benefit of archives, in: Annual report 2001 Brill (Leiden 2002) 49-64. .

· Quellen der Zukunft, in: Verena Kinle - Wolf-Rüdiger Schleidgen (red.), Zwischen Tradition und Innovation. Strategien für die Lösung archivischer Aufgaben am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts, Siegburg 2002: Respublica Verlag (Veröffentlichtungen der staatlichen Archives des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Reihe E, Heft 8)127-138.

· Writing on Archiving Machines, in: Sonja Neef, José van Dijck, and Eric Ketelaar (eds.), Sign here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2006) 183-195.

 

Spanish translation by Alejandro Delgado Gómez: El escribir sobre máquinas de archivar (2007).

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Access to Archives

· Die veröffentlichten Bestandsübersichten der niederländischen Archive: Instrumente für Benutzer und Archivare, in: Archivpflege in Westfalen und Lippe, Heft 21 (Januar 1984) 19- 23. 

· L'accès aux archives dans les Pays-Bas, in: La Gazette des archives (1985) 196-201.

· The right to know, the right to forget ? Personal information in public archives, in: Archives and manuscripts. The Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists 23 (1995) 8-17. repr. in ERIC KETELAAR, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 27-34. 

· Der Archivar als Vermittler zwischen der toten Vergangenheit und dem lebenden Volk, in: Der Archivar 48 (1995) 589-596. repr. in ERIC KETELAAR, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 35-41. 

· Understanding Archives of the People, by the People, and for the People, in: J.D. Bindenagel (ed.), Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets Proceedings (Washington D.C. 1999) 749-761. 

· Looking through the Record into the Rose Garden, in: Arkhiyyon. Reader in archives studies and documentation. Israel Archives Association 10-11 (1999) XXVII-XLII.
· Access: The Democratic Imperative, Archives and Manuscripts 34 (2006) 62-81. Reprinted in: Made Kept & Used. Celebrating 30 years of the Australian Society of Archivists  (Australian Society of Archivists, Canberra 2007) 5-17.

 

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Information Technology

· Exploitation of new archival materials. Report for the 3rd Plenary Session of the XIth International Congress on Archives (Paris 1988), 27 pp. repr. in: Archivum, 35 (1989) 189-199, repr. in ERIC KETELAAR, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 67-79. Translations: La mise en oeuvre des nouvelles archives (Paris 1988), 24 pp. repr. in ERIC KETELAAR, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 81-92.Die Auswertung neuartigen Archivguts (Paris 1988), 13 pp. La utilizacion de los nuevos materiales archivistos (Paris 1988) 23 pp. Russian transl. (Paris 1988) 21 pp. Chinese transl. (without notes) in: XI International Congress on Archives, Paris 1988 (Beijing 1990) (ISBN 7-80019-256-3) 135-147. Bulgarian translation in: Archiven pregled 1989, 287-298. 

· Introduction of the 10 points for a follow-up to the DLM-Forum, in: Proceedings of the DLM-Forum on electronic records. Brussels, 18-20 December 1996 = INSAR. European Archives News, Supplement II (Luxembourg 1997) 350-352. French version: Présentation des dix points pour un suivi du DLM-Forum, dans: Actes du DLM-Forum sur les données lisibles par machines. Bruxelles, 18-20 décembre 1996 = INSAR. Courrier Européen des archives, Supplément II (Luxembourg 1997) 350-352. 
· A quoi les réseaux?, in: Gli archivi dalla carta alle reti. Le fonti di archivio e la loro communicazione. Atti del convegno Firenze, 6-8 maggio 1996 (Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali, Roma 2001) 61-63.

· Preserving archives, in: Annual report 2002 Brill (Leiden 2003) 49-64.

· The Archive as a Time Machine, in: Proceedings of the DLM-Forum 2002. @ccess and preservation of electronic information: best practices and solutions. Barcelona, 6-8 May 2002, INSAR European Archives News, Supplement VII (Luxembourg 2002) 576-581.

· Being Digital in People’s Archives, in: Archives and Manuscripts 31 (2003) 8-22..

· Everyone an archivist, in: Niklaus Bütikofer, Hans Hofman, and Seamus Ross (eds.), Managing and Archiving Records in the Digital Era. Changing Professional Orientations (hier + jetzt, Verlag für Kultur und Geschichte, Baden, 2006) 9-14.

 

 

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International Cooperation

· Centralisation, décentralisation et Archives = Centralization/decentralization and Archives, in: Actes de la vingt-quatrième Conférence Internationale de la Table Ronde des Archives/Proceedings of the twenty-fourth International Archival Round Table Conference (Paris 1987), 17-45, 91-116 = Centralización y descentralización de archivos, in: ALA órgano de communicación de la asociación latinoamericana de archivos 1 (1987) 5-18, 2 (1987) 5-20. 

· Deutsches und niederländisches Archivwesen in einem künftigen Europa, in: Archivpflege in Westfalen und Lippe nr. 33 (April 1991) 13-16. 

· The European Community and its archives, in: The American Archivist 55 (Winter 1992) 40-44. Bulgarian translation in: Archiven pregled 1994, 70-74. Updated version: The archivist and archival Europe, in: Janus 1992.2, 248-250. 

· Unfolding South African Archives: a Candid Report on a Working Visit, in: S.A. Archives Journal / S.A. Argiefblad 35 (1993) 53-66. 
· Transaustralian Archives and Manuscripts, in: Archives and Manuscripts 33/2 (November 2005) 14-17.
· [with Sarah Tyacke, John Herstad, and David Leitch] International Evaluation of the National Archives Service of Finland (Ministry of Education, Helsinki 2006) 76 pp. 
· The Return of Dutch Archives from Moscow. In: Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, F.J. Hoogewoud and Eric Ketelaar (eds.), Returned from Russia. Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues (Institute of Art and Law, Builth Wells U.K.)  241-249.
 

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Varia

· Rotterdam out of plumb thanks to the city archives, in: Les archives et les archivistes au service de la protection du patrimoine culturel et naturel. Actes de la vingt-septième Conférence Internationale de la Table Ronde des Archives. Dresde 1990 (Roma 1993) 126-127. 

· Grusswort des "Algemene Rijksarchivaris" der Niederlande, in: Drittes Deutsch-Niederländisch- Belgisches Archivsymposion...Annalen (Brussel-Bruxelles-Brüssel 1994) 9-15, repr. as 'Privatarchive, Sonderarchive und die Benützer, in: ERIC KETELAAR, The Archival Image. Collected essays (Hilversum 1997) 103-107.

· [with ELS KETELAAR - DE VRIES REILINGH] Holland in Ann Arbor. The Fiftieth Anniversary of The Netherlands Visiting Professorship at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor 2001) 39 pp.

 


 
 

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Legal History

· La réforme de la constitution française de l'an III. Les idées de Daunou et Merlin après Fructidor, in: H. MOHNHAUPT (ed.), Revolution, Reform, Restauration. Formen der Veränderung von Recht und Gesellschaft (= Ius Commune. Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte. Sonderhefte, 37) (Frankfurt am Main 1988) 75-89.