About the Call for Contributions
We encourage submissions from all who engage with archives: students, new professionals, experienced archivists and recordkeepers, information professionals, academics, researchers, artists, and community members.
It is a space to explore the challenges and opportunities posed by technologies, consider what ideal engagement practices could look like, and acknowledge the communities who support the archives. How do we view archives and archivists in the future? How will communities engage and collaborate with archives in the future? What technological innovations and changes are driving the way archives work and preserve information?
We invite you to share your experiences of and ideas for Archival Futures. This could be through community, engagement, or technology - a combination of these - or other avenues that might not typically be thought of as part of the archivist's role.
Topics could include, but are not limited to:
- Digital accessibility
- Privacy, cultural, ethical, and social considerations
- Audiences
- Indigenous self-determination
- Community outreach and access
- Archival education
- Using technology to improve engagement
- Impact of digital transformation on archival concepts
- Artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning.