Nordic Model of Digital Archiving

Greg Bak is an Associate Professor of Archival Studies in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada, where his research and teaching focus on digital archives, archival decolonization and the histories of digital cultures.Marianne Rostgaard is an Associate Professor of History at Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. She headed the research network Digitization and the Future of Archives funded by the Independent Research Fund, Denmark (IRFD) and is currently researching use and reuse of digital public sector records.

• Chapter 1: The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving: An Introduction; SECTION I: EVOLUTIONS IN NORDIC DIGITAL ARCHIVING; Chapter 2: Archival paradigms: The past, present and digitized future of Danish archiving; Chapter 3: The Politics of Archival Appraisal in Sweden in the Digital Age; Chapter 4: A Continuum of Recordkeeping? The possibilities and challenges of Born Digital Public Records in Denmark and Sweden; Chapter 5: A bold attempt to kill off the registry in Nordic public administration: A review of proposed archival legislation in Sweden and Norway; SECTION II: THE VALUE OF STANDARDIZATION; Chapter 6: Continuities and Innovations: Comparing Danish and Canadian Digital Archiving; Chapter 7: "One system to rule them all”: The limited success of Information Control Systems in Finland; Chapter 8: From national to international standards in Norway: From documents to data?; Chapter 9: Transforming archival records into historical big data: visualizing human and computer-processes in the Link-Lives project; SECTION III: GAPS IN NORDIC DIGITAL ARCHIVING; Chapter 10: “That’s Us with the Originals” - Authenticity and Interactivity in Danish Digital Archiving; Chapter 11: Untangling Nordic Web Archives; Chapter 12: Collecting Social Digital Photography: Nordic Archives and Museums Learn Through Participatory Collection Strategies; Chapter 13: Private audiovisual media archives in Greenland: A case study of TV-Aasiaat’s audiovisual archives from the 1990s; SECTION IV: CULTURES OF RECORDS PROFESSIONALS; Chapter 14: On Archives and User Participation in The Nordic Countries; Chapter 15: Archival associations in Sweden; Chapter 16: Archival education in a Nordic context; Chapter 17: Digital Iceland: Why Records Professionals need to be Part of Digitisation; Chapter 18: The Nordic model: some reflections on its strengths and omissions

“… a well-written book with interesting and burning questions where many aspects are certainly current even outside the Nordic countries.Charlotte Borgerud, Uppsala University, in ARCHEION“… rewarding in terms of advancing and challenging my own thinking and knowledge around pressing concerns and new approaches.”Grant Hurley, University of Toronto Libraries, in Archivaria“… samlet sett har fremstillingen lykkes i å se både styrker og svakheter ved den nordiske modellen på en god måte.”Martin Bould, National Archives of Norway, in Aksess