Today it’s a pleasure to have Dr Greg Rolan joins us from Monash University for Big Ideas to talk about participatory recordkeeping and rights in records by design #ResIdeaa
GR introduces the records continuum model and the link to the ICA’s records in context model #ResIdeas
GR poses the question: are society’s recordkeeping systems serving all stakeholders? Who are they failing? #ResIdeas
GR talks about shifts in recordkeeping discourse in the light of post-modern perspectives that offer a critical perspective on our practice #ResIdeas
GR talks about what it means to be ‘participatory’ when designing systems. Using typologies used in development contexts, GR explores how inclusion of stakeholders can range significantly in level of participation #ResIdeas
GR introduces what the continuum model can look like through the lens of participatory agency #ResIdeas
GR uses the example of a care leaver to think through rights and needs around records #ResIdeas
GR suggests that designing a system to meet multiple needs that moves away from accepted categories of ‘creator, owner, subject, user’ throws up new challenges- it has to operate in complexity #ResIdeas
GR talks us through his design-science approach which he used with the objective of enabling the design of a system that would enable a pathway to hospitality for all participants #ResIdeas
GR has some interesting things to say around the ‘what is a record’ debate. Arguing for a view of records as ‘representations’ #ResIdeas
GR now uses a concrete example. Recordkeeping Systems design that meets the needs of care leavers. The key is active participatory involvement from a wide range of community partners and participants #ResIdeas
GR talks about the importance of centring the care leaver perspective #ResIdeas
GR leaves us with a provocation - the moral defence of records that acknowledges the notion of stewardship and pluralistic intellectual control - open world logic. There is no single arbiter of truth but we need mechanisms for arbitration as a means of enabling trust #ResIdeas
