CORE083 Archives as Interdisciplinary Databases for the 21st Century

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Stanislav Bárta, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Mgr. Tomáš Černušák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Stanislav Bárta, Ph.D.
Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Olga Barová
Supplier department: Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 12:00–13:40 B2.32, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Prerequisites
TYP_STUDIA(BM) && FORMA(P) && !(PROGRAM(B-HI_) || OBOR(FBHIpV) || PROGRAM(B-AR_) || OBOR(FBARpV) || PROGRAM(B-PV_) || OBOR(FBPVpV))
The course is open to students in the five-year Bachelor's and five-year Master's cycle, with the exception of the History, Archival Studies and Auxiliary Historical Sciences programmes.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 20/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to present archives and their cultural wealth as potential sources of a large amount of analog information of various types and multifaceted use. Students will familiarize themselves with the possibilities that archives offer in processing qualification theses or complementing materials for various professions through model situations in different fields (social sciences, natural sciences, technical sciences). They will learn about the system of storing and retrieving documents, essential information tools or databases, forms and possibilities of digitization, as well as the applicable legislation.
They will also get acquainted with current trends in the field (e.g., the issue of long-term data preservation), or the broader societal context reflecting the relationship between politics, power, and control over archives; the intersection of public and private in archives; the protection of personal data and the right to be forgotten, etc.
Students will broaden their horizons regarding overlooked sources of information for their fields, think in a broader context, and reflect on their academic and life work with regard to future preservation and use.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to: • Explain the specifics of functionig of the archivess;
• Describe the network of archives in CZ;
• Find and assess archival sources;
•apply the use of archival sources in the context of their own discipline.
Syllabus
  • The function and position of archives in society;
  • Memory and information institutions and search strategies.
  • Archives, power, and politics.
  • Long-term archiving of research data.
  • Protection of personal data, security, and archiving of personalized data (medical data, census data, etc.).
  • Landscape transformation in archival sources.
  • Society and people and their research (history of everyday life, demography, etc.).
  • Law and its sources.
  • History of science and technology.
  • Archives in virtual space.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Jacques Derrida: Archive Fever. A Freudian Impression, (see https://www.jstor.org/stable/465144 )
  • Lise Jaillant (ed.): Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence Working with Born-Digital and Digitized Archival Collections
  • WANNER, Michal. Slovník současné archivní terminologie. 1. vydání. Praha: Odbor archivní správy a spisové služby MV, 2022, 599 stran. ISBN 9788076161184. info
  • SULITKOVÁ, Ludmila. Archivnictví a spisová služba. Edited by Radek Pokorný. Vydání první. Ústí nad Labem: Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem ve spolupráci s nakladatelstvím Scientia, spol. s r.o., 2017, 195 stran. ISBN 9788075610270. info
    not specified
  • Lise Jaillant (ed.): Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence Working with Born-Digital and Digitized Archival Collections.Bielefeld University Press 2022.
Teaching methods
Lecture; discussions; reading recommended literature
Assessment methods
Colloquium in the form of a group debate on a written individual reflection on the use of archives for one’s own field.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
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