{"id":1629,"date":"2023-06-02T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T01:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2023-06-06T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:43:28","slug":"international-archives-week-5-9-june-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/international-archives-week-5-9-june-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"International Archives Week 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In June we celebrate archives and what they do. Here at Curtin, Curtin Information Management and Archives preserves and keeps the records through which Curtin demonstrates its accountability, its heritage and its values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working in the University Archives involves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Research, cataloguing, preservation, curation, digitisation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A lot of problem solving with new and old technology, privacy matters, security, digital preservation, storage, intellectual property; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Talking and being accessible to the Curtin community, the public and researchers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We keep official documents such as committee records, reports, letters, certificates, theses, building plans, objects, and we have a large photo and film archive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some interesting objects that we have collected and are preserved in the Archives include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An award-winning dress, designed and created by a student in 1998,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An early drawing of the City of Perth by George Temple-Poole (1911),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engineering model of Binar-1 cube satellite,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Professor De Laeter\u2019s briefcase with his PhD paper on mass spectrometry,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Film cameras from Humanities, showing the evolution of film technology and equipment,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uniforms from our WAIT days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC01712-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1682\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC01712-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC01712-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC01712-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC01712-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC01712-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Closeup of award-winning dress created by textiles student. Crafted from metal lace, created from soft drink cans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/85928_843462_02-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1680\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/85928_843462_02-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/85928_843462_02-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/85928_843462_02-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/85928_843462_02-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/85928_843462_02-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Original WAIT jumper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Unexpected items found in old archives boxes include children\u2019s drawings, an original pin from Gough Whitlam\u2019s election campaign (It\u2019s Time), forks, serviettes, and desiccated bugs (it\u2019s why we have a freezer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The transition from hardcopy to analogue to digital has presented every archive with challenges and questions to consider and overcome. How do we ensure the digital file is a master, how do we maintain its integrity, how do we store it and make it accessible and usable into the far-off future? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Items from 100 years ago can still be read as they are in the form of paper, printed photographs, film negatives, objects, etc &#8211; but floppy disks, VHS tapes, CDs or DVDs, early digital file formats have reached or will reach a point of obsolescence in a matter of years. Content that may only be 10-20 years old is already or will be inaccessible because they are on these carriers.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9576-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1683\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9576-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9576-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9576-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9576-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9576-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Information on paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>These photos of objects in our collection were created around the same time. They both contain information but are recorded on two different formats. One is nothing special (paper) and the other is a new analogue technology for the time (U-Matic video cassette tape). In one format, the information is easily readable and accessible. On the other, the information is not because it requires specific limited hardware to read it and to migrate it to more accessible format. Soon there will be more undigitised U-matic tape in the world than working hardware capable of playing it back.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9577-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1684\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U-matic is a magnetic tape-based analog video cassette format. The more often it is played the more it can deteriorate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June we celebrate archives and what they do. 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