2024/01/01 by Sarah Glassford, Dominique Marshall, Chris Trainor +2 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Digital and Traditional Archives Management #Social Science and Policy Research
paper · doi:10.4000/131lg
openalex publication_date 2024/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Development archives, like all archives, are an expression of power. Furthermore, archives in over-developed countries tend to prioritize the records of government institutions and of influential men deemed to be “important.” At the same time, nongovernmental organizations in “donor” countries are able and expected to generate archival records related to development projects overseas. Conflict and storage issues in less developed countries can leave these Northern NGO archives in possession of materials not available in “recipient” countries. This paper examines the work of “archival rescue” in Canada. The process of digitization and description is also a process of archival creation, with implications inherent in the subsequent posting of these records online.