Acknowledgement of country
This website was created on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, whose sovereignty was never ceded.
I acknowledge them as the Traditional Custodians of the country on which I live and work and pay my respects to their elders, past and present.
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About
I’m a digital archivist working in Melbourne, Australia. My work is currently focused on digital preservation, processing workflows and metadata in the archival context.
More broadly, I’m interested in how and whether archivists can meaningfully represent digital objects that exist outside of their original places of creation.
Hi, internet. It’s been 13 months since I last posted here. I spent some of the weekend dusting off my dashboard and making inconsequential tweaks to the site layout and design. In the middle of the tidy up, I came across this tweet: Yes, friends, I’m afraid it’s true. We are what we delete. Nein … Read More
Just over a year ago, in October 2016, I was stoked to enjoy my very first on-the-company-dollar conference experience. That this experience coincided with my 30th birthday was a kind of professional poetry, I thought: crossing the threshold of a new decade and seeing my move to a new career beginning to pay off at … Read More
Hello. My name is Elise.
I’m a digital archivist working in Melbourne, Australia. This website is the product of my desire to continue the conversations that get started with peers and colleagues around conference time, and to engage further with the wider archival community.
My work is currently focused on digital preservation, processing workflows and metadata in the archival context. More broadly, I’m interested in how and whether archivists can meaningfully represent digital objects that exist outside of their original places of creation.
You can also find me on Twitter @quarterfalls
Welcome, dear reader, to this, the inaugural post on a little blog about archives. It’s January, so the timing is right for new beginnings. My name is Elise, and I’m a new archivist. I first set foot in an archives during my undergraduate years, when I happened to get a job as a shop girl … Read More