Archives for Maintaining Community and Society in the Digital Age

This book explores how a society accepts and utilizes a system of archives to improve the quality of people’s lives at each level of community, organization, and government. This is the first book that examines the political, economic, and social backgrou

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SpringerBriefs in Political Science

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Keiji Fujiyoshi Editor

Archives for Maintaining Community and Society in the Digital Age

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Editor Keiji Fujiyoshi Faculty of Sociology Otemon Gakuin University Ibaraki City, Osaka, Japan

ISSN 2191-5466 ISSN 2191-5474 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Political Science ISBN 978-981-15-8513-5 ISBN 978-981-15-8514-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8514-2 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore

To all who are struggling to build up the “core to share” in any social sphere of the world

Preface

This small book is the second combined output of our cooperative research on archives and is based on a session in the 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (IIS) held in Delhi, India, in February 2012. The title of the session was “Archives for Maintaining Community and Society in the Digital Age,” and it comprised nine report presentations with important concepts for the study of archives in society. Our research began in September 2005 when we first visited the National Archives of Australia (NAA) and the Australian War Memorial (AWM) in Canberra, as well as the Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) and other archives and museums such as the Immigration Museum and Old Melbourne Gaol (OMG) in Melbourne. This visit caused a kind of culture shock, not only because government archives su