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Digital stewardship for river stewardship: creating the Richmond River open access repository
Archives and records (Abingdon, England), Vol.45(2), pp.135-152
03/05/2024
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Abstract
The catchment of the Richmond River in Lismore, Australia, presents a challenge for record collection and preservation. Firstly, material records belonging to the community are periodically destroyed in flooding. The places where these are physically located as historical archives are often situated in the floodplain. Secondly, relevant records are dispersed across multiple government levels and organizations, posing further threats to their preservation and access. This paper seeks to explore those challenges and describe the development of a river repository at Southern Cross University, funded in part through a grant for flood recovery projects. The repository and our research are motivated by the challenges and considerations surrounding the preservation and management of cultural and scientific materials in the current era, characterized by human impact on the environment and climate change and the integration the Anthropocene heralds between the human and non-human world. Digital stewardship encompasses caring for and managing records and data, goals we extend to the Richmond River and its health.
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- Title
- Digital stewardship for river stewardship: creating the Richmond River open access repository
- Creators
- Adele Wessell - Southern Cross University, HumanitiesClare Thorpe - Southern Cross University, Library Services
- Publication Details
- Archives and records (Abingdon, England), Vol.45(2), pp.135-152
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 18
- Identifiers
- 991013196013802368
- Copyright
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- Library Services; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Humanities
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article