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Tweeting The Government: Preliminary Findings From A Genre Analysis Of Canadian Federal Government Tweets, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luanne Freund, Mackenzie Welch
Tweeting The Government: Preliminary Findings From A Genre Analysis Of Canadian Federal Government Tweets, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luanne Freund, Mackenzie Welch
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Social media is rapidly becoming an integral part of the Canadian Federal Government’s communication plan. Its use has been institutionalized with the adoption of the Guidelines for External Use of Web 2.0, which provides policy guidelines for government agencies on using social media tools. Twitter, a microblogging site, has rapidly gained popularity with Canadian government agencies. The primary purpose of this research is to identify the communicative intents behind federal government agencies’ use of Twitter. A random set of 2,000 tweets were collected over a one month period in 2012 and were coded using a schema derived from both relevant …
Records Management And Peer-Reviewed Journals: An Assessment, Donald C. Force, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Records Management And Peer-Reviewed Journals: An Assessment, Donald C. Force, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
There currently exists no North American peer-reviewed journal for records and information professionals (RIM) devoted primarily to matters of active and/or semi-active records. Peer-reviewed literature is often cited as a characteristic of a profession. This project reports on research that questions whether there exists an expressed desire for a North American peer-review journal. The study also presents an analysis of the current journal landscape in the RIM and related fields.
Preserving Social Media: Opening A Multi-Disciplinary Dialogue, Lisa P. Nathan, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Preserving Social Media: Opening A Multi-Disciplinary Dialogue, Lisa P. Nathan, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Digital artefacts generated through use of social media tools= have potential long-term value to individuals, organizations and societies. If there is a desire to systematically collect and preserve accounts of daily life, government activities, and societies’ documentary heritage, archival approaches must account for changing information systems—the tools, policies, and practices through which we engage in the contemporary information ecosystem. Through this paper we argue that in light of the growing complexity of digital information practices, particularly in relation to the use of social media, archivists need look to the scholarship of design and planning, in particular the work of human …
Heritage, Records & Trust: Understanding SocietyʼS Past Through Social Media?, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Lisa P. Nathan
Heritage, Records & Trust: Understanding SocietyʼS Past Through Social Media?, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Lisa P. Nathan
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
The relationship between the archival concept of the record requires examination and analysis in a social media context. If there is a desire to systematically collect and preserve accounts of daily life, archival theory must account for changing information systems, both the tools and the practices through which we engage them. At the same time system designers need to draw upon contemporary archival theory. The field of human computer interaction is uniquely positioned to work with archivists to both inform archival theory and to be informed by archival theory in recognition of the longer-term, multi-lifespan functions information systems play in …
Book Review—Clio Wired: The Future Of The Past In The Digital Age, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Book Review—Clio Wired: The Future Of The Past In The Digital Age, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age is a collection of eleven essays that takes its title from history’s muse, Clio, and is authored (some articles are co-authored) by the late American historian Roy Rosenzweig, founding director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Virginia. The Center uses digital media and technology to advance history education and research and investigates their impact on history education, research, dissemination, and preservation. The essays examine and explore the impact that digital media, in particular the Internet, have had on history—from research and teaching …
Records Governance In Enterprise 2.0: Toward An Archival Understanding Of Social Media (Poster), Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luciana Duranti
Records Governance In Enterprise 2.0: Toward An Archival Understanding Of Social Media (Poster), Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luciana Duranti
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Social media are consistently evolving with the ever-increasing ability to combine tools and information to create new forms of documents that can pose challenges to traditional paradigms and raise questions of intellectual property, privacy and confidentiality, authorship and ownership.
University Institutional Repositories: An Investigation Into Long-Term Preservation And Copyright Compliance, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
University Institutional Repositories: An Investigation Into Long-Term Preservation And Copyright Compliance, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
This poster presents a research project that explores the challenges presented to Institutional Repositories (IRs) by the requirements of long-term digital preservation and copyright compliance. IRs have been developed by universities throughout North America and Western Europe with the goals of preserving and making accessible the scholarly output of academic communities, including materials that range from publications to scientific data sets. However, the literature shows that these same institutions lag behind when it comes to policies and procedures for long-term preservation and the licensing of their contents. IRs face some serious challenges: How to ensure the long-term preservation of and …
How To Preserve A Million Digital Records When Everyone Has A Million Other Things To Worry About, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Corinne Rogers
How To Preserve A Million Digital Records When Everyone Has A Million Other Things To Worry About, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Corinne Rogers
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
How do you preserve digital records in a million-dollar organization when everyone has a million other things to worry about? This case study presents a synthesis of archival and organizational theory to inform policy and procedures development for long-term preservation of digital records in an established post-secondary institution with 16,000 full-time and 32,000 part-time students. We discuss the process of documenting current practices and developing policy that embraces best practices and seeks to implement change in today’s reality of cutbacks and unique particularities of organizational culture. Offering practical solutions to policy development for digital records preservation, we present a model …
Digital Monks Share Their Code—What Would Hugh Taylor Say About Open Source Software?, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Corinne Rogers
Digital Monks Share Their Code—What Would Hugh Taylor Say About Open Source Software?, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Corinne Rogers
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
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