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This paper explores grassroots community activist art archives and their ability to disseminate and preserve digital protest art in the period surrounding the Belarusian 2020 presidential election. This paper focuses on the cultural aspects of these digital archives and argues that they have become a recent source for describing, defining and communicating Belarusian culture in ways that have challenged the norms of political power and the centrality of the archives of state institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since Croatian constitutional reforms of 2000, official documents for appointment of new Croatian ambassadors have borne the signature of the President of the Republic of Croatia. However, they have not borne the countersign of the Prime Minister that is usually submitted to the Head of State as a separate document earlier on in the appointment procedure. Inspired by this uncommon practice, this paper examines the history of countersign by means of application of H. O. Meisner's "Aktenkunde" (the modern diplomatics of files). It studies its antique and medieval roots with particular emphasis on its development from the 16th century onwards. Since Meisner's modern diplomatics as an auxiliary science of history has not been particularly known in Croatia, the first part of this paper presents his theory as well as the parallel development of the French "diplomatique de l'époque moderne". The diplomatic analysis specially focuses on documents for appointment of high-ranking civil and military officials issued by Austrian, Croatian and Hungarian Habsburg chancelleries in the period between the 16th century and 1918. The Habsburgs had at their disposal five types of documents for appointment of officials that, apart from decrees, were validated by sovereign's signature placed below the text to the left, and by a countersign of competent authority's head, originally placed directly below sovereign's signature and later on underneath the signature more to the right. This paper also underlines the importance of auxiliary historical sciences, here the diplomatic, since public documents like other state symbols (the national flag, coat of arms or decorations) form part of state identity and should follow centuries-old diplomatic traditions that were almost forgotten during the Communist era in Croatia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we reflect on how the principle of the 'right to be forgotten' (RTBF), specifically the right to erasure as enshrined in Article 17 (and to some extent Art. 19 and Art. 21) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR; Regulation (EU) 2016/679), or the right to delete undesirable, unflattering or reputation‐damaging archived records of oneself from search engines or databases, might apply to academic publishing. In particular, we focus on archival (library and information) science, post‐publication peer review, and reflect on whether RTBF is compatible with open science principles. Even though RTBF became enshrined in EU law in 2018, its trans‐Atlantic export to the United States faces resistance because it is seen as being incompatible with First Amendment rights. We ponder the pertinence of the debate regarding local versus global applicability of RTBF when considering the transnational nature of some collaborative research. Although RTBF applies broadly to search engines such as Google, we question whether authors have this right and also whether publishers are subjected to this law with respect to science databases, or even 'local' (i.e., publisher‐controlled) archives, especially in the light of retractions or withdrawals, in which data and files are removed from a preprint or journal's website or, in extreme cases, where all or most bibliometric information is scrubbed clean, as in the case of 'silent retractions'. We extend our reflections further to appreciate whether authors or editors are entitled to RTBF in extreme instances of misconduct or fraud. The fundamental right to privacy and personal choice, as is suggested by (or enshrined in) RTBF, is not—in our view—compatible with several principles related to the integrity of data and information, or even their preservation, and may be diametrically opposed, depending on the situation. We encourage wider debate on this budding pertinent issue as a fundamental aspect of academic rights and freedoms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to perform a qualitative synthesis of literature concerning the representation of information in displaced archives. Methodologically, this communication is configured in a metasynthesis oriented to theory building, constituting a non-reactive, documentarybased and exploratory type of study, focused on articles and books chapters published in English between 1954 and 2019. The collection of texts is supported by the SPICE strategy, applied to the search in databases (WoS and EBSCO). We adopted content analysis according to the assumptions of Charmaz and Finfgeld-Connett. Of the 443 records, 155 texts that responded to the research purposes were included. Three themes emerged from the content analysis around the aforementioned theme with a view to theory building: "anarchivism as (non-) representation", "archive of the archive", and "archival canon". Finally, displaced archives constitute an emerging theme in several domains, so it is important to explore the complex nature of this phenomenon from the point of view of representation and knowledge organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the history and practices of collecting have received considerable attention over the past few decades, the notion of erasure - of the deleting, removal or destruction of material, whether deliberate or otherwise - has remained largely in the shadows. We challenge this neglect by placing erasure centre stage and treating it as a productive phenomenon in its own right. Indeed, we suggest that it forms a significant precondition for the very possibility of memory and collections. This article draws upon a recent turn to consider questions of forgetting, ignorance and ending to lay out the grounds for analysing the various roles played by erasure in making and unmaking our world. Inspired by Paul Connerton's discussion of different types of forgetting, we present five distinct forms of erasure that we regard as principally important: (i) repressive erasure, (ii) protective erasure, (iii) operative erasure, (iv) amending erasure and (v) calamitous and neglectful erasure. In each case, we discuss the characteristic logic of the erasure at hand and provide examples of the historical and media-specific forms in which it has been enacted. Our aim in doing so is to provide future researchers with some of the analytical tools and perspectives necessary to engage in further erasure studies. For if we are interested in making sense of the shifting and complex world we inhabit, then the interdisciplinary study of the compelling yet elusive phenomenon of erasure is an excellent place to start. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to give a new definition of the word “Archives” as a result of an accurate survey of doctrinal orientations on this specific subject, analyzing - word by word – each particular lemma which makes up the new proposal. Even though there is no definition that is valid in every context, but archival theory seems to suffer largely from a heterogeneous vision, downstream of a rigorous scientific journey, but dense of conceptual and lexical unexpected contingencies. Each term - with meanings and contexts - does not constitute a simple signifier, but refers to a specific baggage of every disciplinary and cultural tradition. For these reasons, we will attempt to provide an overview of the definitions of archives, from the particular to the general.