Archival and recordkeeping research

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Method/Technique Definition Potential applications and examples
nexus between recordkeeping, law and ethics (Iacovino, 2004)
exploration of archives, power, and memory (Ketelaar, 2005a).
Historiography See Chapter 12: Historical Research. Historical studies of archival science, recordkeeping and archival
practice, archival institutions, the profession, development of national
or regional archival traditions, key figures in the profession.
Examples include:
history of Australian recordkeeping (Piggott, 1998)
Lester Cappon, the relationship of history, archives, and
scholarship (Cox, 2004)
role of archival practice in colonialism, imperialism, and religious
movements (Burton, 2005; Portuondo, 2009)
archival knowledge cultures in Europe, 1400-1900 (Head, 2010)
Waldo Gifford Leland (Wosh, 2011).
Surveys, interviews
and focus groups
See Chapter 6: Survey designs, and Chapter
16: Questionnaires, Individual Interviews and
Focus Group Interviews.
Extensively used for data collection, in particular in action research,
case studies, second generation grounded theory approaches,
ethnography and systems analysis and design research (see examples
in those sections).
Examples include:
user information seeking practices (Gilliland-Swetland, 2001)
archival professional personality types (Craig, 2000; Pederson,
2002).