3a Hope Activated - Climate Ethics and Archives in an Age of Urgency
Tracks
Collaboration and Advocacy
| Tuesday, October 18, 2022 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
Presentation Type
Traditional Paper -- Moderator: Rachel U’Ren
Session Information
Unusual Partners: In Session 3 archivists consider archives fundamental to most aspects of human activity; others don’t always realise the vitality of the archival function. The speakers in this session demonstrate that vitality in collaborations with usual – librarians and historians – and unusual – climate scientists and artists – partners. The presentations will also make clear the potential archivists have for pro-active participation, in initiating collaboration and creatively pursuing its implementation.
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Ms Michaela Hart
Senior Digital Archivist
Department of Health - Victoria
Hope Activated - Climate Ethics and Archives in an Age of Urgency
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At the 2021 Brisbane ASA conference Hart gave a paper titled Hope in the Anthropocene, Connecting to Archival Long Game. This asked what our responsibility as archivists is to ensure that records, and also the planet will still be around in 500 years. It questioned what role sustainability and climate ethics play, and how we can influence our institutions to place these things front and center when planning for digital preservation, system development and repository management.
Since 2021 Hart has been collaborating with colleagues in archives and climate science to test what collaboration might look like, and will be sharing some stories about this. Key to this is activating climate data within our collections that might be hidden to research scientist, by developing climate focused finding aids and applying a new lens to our appraisal activity.
Since 2021 Hart has been collaborating with colleagues in archives and climate science to test what collaboration might look like, and will be sharing some stories about this. Key to this is activating climate data within our collections that might be hidden to research scientist, by developing climate focused finding aids and applying a new lens to our appraisal activity.
