Sites to Visit

Identity and basic rights through records

• Read the Universal declaration of human rights on the United Nations web pages at http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html. As you look over the 30 Clauses of the Declaration, think about the ways in which good recordkeeping is necessary to ensure their fulfilment.

• The Refugee Council (United Kingdom) at http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/

• Amnesty International at http://www.amnesty.org/

• Kosovor Refugees - Losing IDs by Jetty Chakkalakalat on the Canadian Council for Refugees site at http://www.web.net/~ccr/kosovoid.htm

• Human rights watch, Kosovo: Focus on Human Rights at http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/kosovo98/refugee416.shtml

• Human rights watch, Syria: The Silenced Kurds at http://www.hrw.org/hrw/summaries/s.syria9610.html

• Refugee Council of Australia at http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/

• Why records management - on the World Banks website - explores records management as a key support for effective development at http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/archives/learning.nsf/ContentOnly/41A187C704279D23852568A7002575B4

Archives and records

Archives and records: Arsenals of law and order

• Sue McKemmish The smoking gun: Recordkeeping and accountability on the Record Continuum Research Group at Monash University at http://www.sims.monash.edu.au/research/rcrg/publications/recordscontinuum/smoking.html

• Enron scandal at-a-glance on the BBC News Online pages at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1780075.stm

• HIH Collapse on the Understanding Company Law educational site created by Phillip Lipton and Abe Herzberg for lecturers and students of Australian corporate law at
http://www.lipton-herzberg.com.au/hih.htm

• Read article on Administrative & Civil Service Reform: Reluctance to Release Information on the World Bank web pages at http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPUBLICSECTORANDGOVERNANCE/EXTADMINISTRATIVEANDCIVILSERVICEREFORM/0,,contentMDK:20134075~menuPK:1919825~pagePK:210058~piPK:210062~theSitePK:286367,00.html

• Records have often made the difference between life and death, success and failure in human affairs. Look at the resources on the Law Museum's timetable of world legal history at http://www.duhaime.org/Law_museum/hist.htm to investigate some of those momentous occasions.

• Visit the International Records Management Trust's site at http://www.irmt.org/

• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Documents in law, history and diplomacy at http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

The mandate and work of archival authorities

1. Documenting the present

• Visit the National Archives of Australia's online publication Designing and Implementing RecordKeeping Systems (DIRKS) for an excellent example of a public archival authority providing policies, guidelines and 'how-to-do-it' support for developing sound recordkeeping regimes at http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/publications/dirks-manual.aspx

2. Reconstructing the past

• Visit some collecting archives of different sorts with strong online access facilities such as

• Collecting, preserving, and researching history: A peek into the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division - A brief overview of the importance of collecting private papers and an explanation of how material is acquired, organised and made ready for research use.Available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/special.html

• Using archives: A practical guide for researchers - from the National Archives of Canada site at http://www.archives.ca/04/0416_e.html

Crimes, scandals, risks and records

• Visit the Georgia Bureau of Investigation: Division of Forensic Sciences: Questioned documents section to see how forensic science can help determine the authenticity of documents at http://www.ganet.org/gbi/fsquest.html

• Medieval Sourcebook: The donation of Constantine (This document was later proven to be a total fabrication. One of history's notorious forgeries) at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/donatconst.html

• National Fraud Information Center & Internet Fraud Watch (NFIC/IFW) News & views
Sponsored by the US National Consumers' League, this archive of news accounts of fraud frequently cites inadequate recordkeeping or security as a major contributor to the crimes. At http://www.fraud.org/news/newsset.htm

• Visit the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Directory of Computer Crime pages and check out Recombinant culture: Crime in the digital network by Curtis E.A. Karnow and Landels, Ripley & Diamond at http://cpsr.org/prevsite/cpsr/privacy/crime/karnow.html/

• National Fraud Information Center & Internet Fraud Watch: Scams against businesses at http://www.fraud.org/scamsagainstbusinesses/

• Visit the Deaths in custody publications on the Australian Institute of Criminology website at http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/dic/index.html

Records and archives in fiction, film and exhibitions

• The fictional world of archives, art galleries and museums on David Mattison's site at
http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~mattison/ficarch/index.htm

• and Archives and records on film and television at http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~mattison/ficarch/index-filmstv.htm

Exhibitions

• National Archives of Australia: Documenting a democracy: Australia's story. The project, a partnership of Australia's eight government archives, led by the National Archives of Australia, was partly funded by the National Council for the Centenary of Federation under its History and Education program.
Available at http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/

• State Library of New South Wales.
Papers of Sir Joseph Banks at http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/banks/

• Library of Congress: American Memory Collection: Historical collections for the National Digital Library
A listing of the available scanned images of records from key collections of the Library of Congress. The project is continually adding material for viewing.
Available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

• American treasures of the Library of Congress
An entertaining smorgasbord featuring expected and unexpected 'treasures' from the Library's vast and varied holdings. Last updated December, 1999.
Available at http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/

• Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas - Mariners' Museum - Newport News, Virginia. Available at http://www.mariner.org/captivepassage/index.html

• US National Archives & Records Administration(NARA) Exhibition Hall - browse some of the online exhibitions at http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/index.html. For example, American originals
provides a selection of intriguing records and images connected with Presidents or major events: the Declaration of Independence; the Titanic; Al Capone. Available at http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/american_originals_iv/impact.html

• Public Record Office UK: The National Archives millennium exhibition
A multimedia exhibition of key records of British achievement. Requires advanced IT to run well.
Available at http://www.pro.gov.uk/virtualmuseum/millennium/default.htm

• The British Library: Online Exhibitions
The British Library has created on-line versions of current, past and permanent exhibitions in the Library.
Available at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/homepage.html

• The Smithsonian Institutions. Library and archival exhibitions on the web
An extensive collection of links that serves as a gateway to online exhibitions from many institutions featuring an astonishing range of archives, paintings and objects documenting significant events in history.
Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/

• National Archives of Canada- Living memory exhibition
This virtual exhibition showcases key records and images that shaped Canada's national memory.
Available at http://www.archives.ca/05/0509_e.html

Archives and the construction of culture

• Visit the Mystica, an on-line encyclopedia of the occult, mysticism, magic, paranormal and more... to find out more about Stonehenge http://www.themystica.com/mystica/pages/mysteries.htm

• Learn more about Machu Picchu, centre of Inca culture in this article by Gary Ziegler at http://www.gorp.com/gorp/location/latamer/peru/machu.htm

• Visit Mayan civilisations past and present from the pages of Native American Indian Resources at http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/maya.html
and the Guide to the Mayan People on the USA People Search website at http://www.usa-people-search.com/content-guide-to-the-mayan-people.aspx.

• See the Movable Heritage and Museums page on the UNESCO site at http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=34324&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html and the Intagible Heritage page at http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=34325&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html which includes links to a number of important sites and documents including the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.

• Safeguarding of vital records in the event of armed conflict and related links are accessible on the UNESCO web pages at http://www.unesco.org/webworld/other/war_archives/home.htm

• Visit UNESCO's In focus: Conflict in the Balkans on cultural aspects of ethnic cleansing during the Balkan conflicts at http://www.unesco.org/webworld/focus_kosovo/index.html

• Visit the UN High Commissioner for Refugees news page at http://www.unhcr.org/news.html and search on identity records.

• Learn more about the Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale University at http://www.yale.edu/cgp/

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