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Archive and Access: Documents in the Time of Democracy: by Rochelle Pinto — published May 02, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 05:45 AM — filed under: Digital Access, Archives
This is the seventh in a series of blog posts documenting Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijeet Bhattacharya's CIS-RAW project, Archive and Access. In this entry, Rochelle Pinto introduces a sub-set of posts that will look at the political significance of public access to official documents on the internet.
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Archive and Access: The Inalienable Right to the Archives - Entering the Capital: by Rochelle Pinto — published Apr 18, 2009 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:42 AM — filed under: Archives
This entry complements the prior discussion by Aparna Balachandran of the Delhi State Archives and its status as a repository of records. Her discussion compares the place of the user and that of the document in the Delhi State Archives as opposed to in the National Archives. This post by Rochelle Pinto discusses questions relating to the National Archives of India and other archival entities.
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Archive and Access: The Delhi State Archives: by Aparna Balachandran — published Apr 18, 2009 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:43 AM — filed under: Digital Access, Archives
In this, the fifth entry in a series on the CIS-RAW Archive and Access project, Aparna Balachandran reports on two state archives located in Delhi, the National Archives of India, and the Delhi Archives.
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Applications to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment under the Right to Information Act: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Mar 06, 2009 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:50 AM — filed under: Archives
The Centre for Internet and Society filed two applications to the MSJE under the Right to Information Act seeking certain information relating to the implementation of the National Policy for Electronic Accessibility and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
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Archive and Access: The Archive and the Indian Historian: by Aparna Balachandran — published Dec 11, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:44 AM — filed under: Archives
This post is the second in a series by Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto. It comes to the question of how we can extend some of the questions and concerns that have arisen around contemporary archives to the documentary archive. It argues that the conventional understanding of the print archive as a fragile, irreplaceable national cultural legacy is a limited one and tries instead to rethink questions of ownership and access, issues thrown up in sharp relief by the digital archive.
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Archives and Access: Introduction: by Aparna Balachandran — published Dec 11, 2008 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:05 PM — filed under: Histories of Internet, Researchers at Work, Archives
The members of this research project team are Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore and Abhijit Bhattacharya from the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta. This intial post tries to outline the concerns underlining this project which will attempt to critically examine archiving practices and policies in India in order to conceptualize ideas about ownership and use towards the goal of the greatest public good; reflect on issues of digitization and access; and facilitate public conversations and the articulation of a collective voice by historians and other users on possible interventions in these institutions.
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Launch of Public Juris (An Online Archive of Legal Resources): by Aparna Balachandran — published Nov 10, 2008 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:07 PM — filed under: Workshop, Researchers at Work, Archives
Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya announce the launch of Public Juris, an online archive of legal resources.
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