This study examines how photographic material has been classified and contextualized on the digitization platforms of the major Swedish memory institutions – the National Library of Sweden, the National Archives of Sweden, and the Nordic Museum. Combined with a series of interviews with digitization practitioners at these institutions, the paper examines the cultural-historical approach to defining the concept “photography” and classifying digitized photographs, as well as how photographic material is treated similarly to or differently from other kinds of material housed at these institutions. These results of this question are used to examine the likelihood that, driven by similarities in digitization practices, significant differences between Swedish libraries, archives, and museums are disappearing.

This thesis examines the state-sponsored rise of local patriotism in the post-1961 period, interpreting this as part of the effort to strengthen popular support for and the legitimacy of the Soviet regime during the second phase of de-Stalinization. It shifts the analytical focus away from the Secret Speech of 1956, the time of Khrushchev’s full-scale assault on Stalin and his legacy, to the Twenty-Second Party Congress of 1961, the inauguration of a utopian and pioneering plan to build Communism by 1980. The thesis considers how this famously forward-looking programme gave rise to an institutionalized retrospectivism as Soviet policy makers turned to the past to mobilize popular support for socialist construction. It examines how this process played out in the Russian North West, where Soviet citizens were encouraged to turn inwards to examine their local history and traditions, and to reread these through the lens of Soviet socialism. The thesis takes as a case study the towns of Novgorod, Pskov, and Vologda, where the state-sponsored regeneration of local traditions significantly impacted on the self-perception of local communities. In the first part, I look at the strategies for representing and displaying local culture in pubic institutions: the textual treatment and symbolic ordering of urban space in local tourist guides; the heritage movement and the attribution of cultural value to certain objects from the local landscape; and the primary focuses of the exhibitive 'gaze' in local museums. The second part of the thesis shifts the focus from institutionalized culture to popular culture, examining the informal practices and oral traditions that exist alongside the authoritative discourses of social identity in the post-Soviet period. The popular interpretation of public sculpture, the collective imagination of urban space, and the 'common knowledge' of the past as it is articulated in oral narratives are the focuses of discussion.

Submitted by Cristhiane Guerra (cristhiane.guerra@gmail.com) on 2016-08-02T15:37:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4741735 bytes, checksum: 1f38d537f634c6aff1a89ae7ed9c6907 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-02T15:37:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4741735 bytes, checksum: 1f38d537f634c6aff1a89ae7ed9c6907 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-15 / This paper investigated the career and contributions of the educator, archivist and writer Clemilde Torres Pereira da Silva to the memory-institutions of Paraíba. This is the unveiling of the narratives and the stories remembered and resignified by the educator about her performance in the context of memory-institutions of Paraíba. To this end, we investigated her career paths from 1942, a period starting with the beginning of her studies in the city of Bananeiras (PB), through 2013, in which she was working as Director of Afonso Pereira Archive, founded by herself in 1998, in the city of João Pessoa (PB). Categorized in the field of theoretical and methodological approach of the New Cultural History and guided by the premises of Oral History, this study aimed to unveil, through thematic interviews, the reminiscences of Clemilde Torres about her family origins, her education and her early works as an archivist. Here we described the engagement of the educator as archivist in the spaces in which she worked and the consolidation of her professional career in the memory-institutions of Paraiba, especially Afonso Pereira da Silva Archive. The study revealed that the educator performed a contributive educative action to society and to education, as she produced and made available information through documents of different ages. Finally, we highlighted her contribution as a writer of historical narratives that facilitate the reconstruction of the past, shedding light to the educational practice of Clemilde Pereira in memory preservation spaces. / Este estudo investigou a trajetória profissional e as contribuições da educadora, arquivista e escritora Clemilde Torres Pereira da Silva às instituições-memória da Paraíba. Trata-se do desvelamento das narrativas, das histórias lembradas e ressignificadas pela educadora sobre sua atuação no âmbito das instituições-memória da Paraíba. Para tanto, foram investigados seus percursos profissionais construídos entre 1942, período que compreende o início de sua formação profissional realizada na cidade de Bananeiras (PB), até o ano de 2013, período em que permanecia atuando como diretora do Arquivo Afonso Pereira, fundado pela educadora em 1998, na cidade de João Pessoa (PB). Inscrito no campo da abordagem teórico-metodológica da Nova História Cultural e guiado pelas premissas da História Oral, este trabalho, buscou desvelar, por meio de entrevistas temáticas, as reminiscências de Clemilde Pereira sobre sua origem familiar, sua formação inicial e seus primeiros trabalhos da atuação como arquivista. Nele, foi descrito o engajamento da educadora como arquivista nos espaços em que atuou e a consolidação da trajetória profissional nas instituições-memória da Paraíba, sobretudo no Arquivo Afonso Pereira da Silva. O estudo revelou que a educadora desempenhou uma ação educativa contributiva à sociedade e à educação ao desempenhar um trabalho de produção e de disponibilização da informação através de documentos épocas distintas. Por fim, foram evidenciadas suas contribuições como escritora de narrativas históricas que favorecem a reconstrução do passado, ensejando luz à prática educativa de Clemilde Pereira nos espaços de preservação da memória. Palavras-chave:

The digital age has ushered in the increased preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage material within memory institutions through the creation of digital reproductions. This study explores individual digitisation professionals' perceptions of ethical issues This study explores individual digitisation professionals' perceptions of ethical issues and ethical guidelines. Employing a survey study in the form of a questionnaire, this exploratory study intends to lay a foundation upon which further research can be done. The questionnaire garnered both qualitative and quantitative data. A small sample of digitisation professionals from Northern Europe and North America were surveyed and the qualitative findings were analysed through the use of a thematic analysis method. This study finds that there is much to consider such as culture, narrative, and individual rights. This study highlights that there is a spectrum of ethical issues faced by digitisation professionals, with a majority of respondents discussing consent, privacy and cultural sensitivity. In discussing the findings, a lens of professional ethics theory is applied to understand how attitudes towards ethical issues and ethical guidelines in digitisation can be understood. This study creates insights into what a group of digitisation professionals perceive as lacking in ethical guidelines regarding digitisation and the ethical issues. Further research in this area is encouraged.

The aim of the thesis "Memory institutions on the threshold of the 21st century: media activities of the National Film Archive and the Deutsches Filminstitut" is to explain the context in which the archives are acting, and in particular explore specific media operations of two leading European film archives. The focus of the first part of the text is to describe the changing conditions mainly related to digitalization. The traditionally rigid institutions must adapt to this new conditions if they want to onform to the standards of cultural institutions of the 21st century. The main part of the text then analyzes the media actions of the National Film Archive and reference institution Deutsches Filminstitut. The thesis analyzes the specific media actions from onlinepresentation of the institution up to the work with journalists and, if necessary, proposes the optimization of existing processes. The reason of focusing just on media activities is the increasing need to develop new audiences, recruited from persons who were up to this moment not interested in the activities of the archives, and last but not least, the fact that a good media activity can be a compelling argument when approaching sponsors from the private sector. In the perspective of continual reduction of state contributions to cultural...

The thesis focuses on the mediation of electronic information resources of cultural heritage from public libraries to public. The text is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. Introductory chapters explain key terms - cultural heritage, digitization of analog cultural object and digital library and describe chosen benefits that providing of electronic information resources of cultural heritage brings to public libraries. The thesis also includes analysis of chosen electronic information resources of cultural heritage. They are presented Manuscriptorium, Kramerius, Moll Collection, online portal Europeana and web site of American Memory project. The practical part of this thesis presents the results of a supply and demand survey. The first survey was implemented on web pages of Czech regional libraries and the second survey is user survey among the Czech public. The last chapter is formed by recommendations for public libraries which offer electronic resources of cultural heritage.

1 Abstract Theses is devoted to some selected issues of cultural heritage online domain within context of information politics in which it takes a place. After dealing with terminology, including cultural heritage definition based on anthropological concept of culture and segmentation of cultural heritage according to UNESCO activities, the second chapter presents cultural heritage digitization and bringing online activities of European Union as a part of European information politics since 90s of 20th Century (important projects out of Europe are mentioned). Regarding to these politics the chapter focuses on participation of Czech Republic on putting European cultural heritage online. The third chapter is focused on college and university education in digitization and bringing cultural heritage online in USA and Europe, with a special focus on Slovac and Czech Republic. The fourth chapter sums up general characteristics of cultural heritage information systems and introduces some possible ways of their use in education and as information sources in libraries. The last chapter presents outputs of project devoted to development of digital library specialized on bringing online data obtained by research in private libraries.