'On 2 April 2019, the Victorian Branch of the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) and Monash University organised a panel discussion on the relationships between research, education and professional practice in the Australian recordkeeping field. The panellists included Catherine Nicholls, Records Manager at Monash University and part-time doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University; Katherine Jarvie, Assistant Director, Information Management and Archives at RMIT and part-time doctoral student at Monash University; Wenting Lyu, PhD student in archival science at the School of Information Management, Nanjing University and visiting PhD student in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University; James Hill, recent graduate and 2018 Margaret Jennings Award recipient; and myself as the new General Editor for Archives and Manuscripts.' (Editorial introduction)
'What happens when a human coder meets a machine one? This article explores this question with reference to the archive of Professor Germaine Greer: Australian-born feminist, performer, scholar, and professional controversialist. It does so by staging two very different data encounters with the 70,000-word finding aid for the print journalism series, a key component of Greer’s archive. The first encounter is archivist’s creation of the finding aid; the second, archivist and literary scholar’s interpretation of this archival metadata using sentiment analysis. Interrogating these activities side-by-side opens up a productive middle ground between humanities scholars and computer technicians, between historians and archivists, between the hand made and the machine made.' (Publication abstract)
'Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia is a fascinating biography of commercial photographer Ernest Lund Mitchell, intertwined with a detailed examination of how his photographs, particularly of Western Australia and Queensland, were used to promote Australia to the Empire. The work is based on author Joanna Sassoon’s PhD thesis and journal articles. (Introduction)'
