Barrett, Creighton
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Item Open Access Building Trust in Information: Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance (review)(Society of American Archivists, 2017) Barrett, CreightonItem is a review of the book Building Trust in Information: Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance, edited by Victoria L. Lemieux.Item Open Access Managing privacy and access with digital forensics tools and techniques(2017-09-28) Barrett, CreightonPresentation on digital forensics given at Right to Know: Balancing Access and Privacy symposium held at Dalhousie University on September 28, 2017. The free public event was held on International Right to Know day and was co-hosted by Dalhousie University Libraries, the Dalhousie School of Information Management, and Library and Archives Canada.Item Open Access Digital forensics tools and methodologies in archival repositories(2017-05-16) Barrett, CreightonItem is a presentation on digital forensics given at a Faculty of Computer Science Research Seminar on May 16, 2017.Item Open Access Review of the 2016 Scientific Archives Workshop(2017-05-11) Barrett, CreightonItem is a presentation on the 2016 Scientific Archives Workshop given at the 2017 Council of Nova Scotia Archives conference on May 11, 2017. The presentation was part of a members' "Show and Tell" session.Item Open Access Accessing the inaccessible: digital forensics at the Dalhousie University Archives(2017-05-11) Barrett, CreightonItem is a presentation on digital forensics given at the Council of Nova Scotia Archives conference on May 11, 2017.Item Open Access Tools for identifying duplicate files and known software files(2017-04-28) Barrett, CreightonItem is a lightening talk presentation given on April 28, 2017 at the 2017 BitCurator Users Forum held at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The talk provides a brief overview of FSlint, Forensic Toolkit, and the Reference Data Set published by the National Software Reference Library (NSRL).Item Open Access “Why are we saving All these artist publications + Other Galleries stuffs?” The Emergence of Artist-Run Culture in Halifax(2016-01-22) Barrett, CreightonItem contains the text for five wall panels prepared as part of the exhibition "“Why are we saving All these artist publications + Other Galleries stuffs?” The Emergence of Artist-Run Culture in Halifax," curated by Creighton Barrett and Peter Dykhuis. The exhibition presented archival material from the Mezzanine Gallery fonds at NSCAD University and the Eyelevel Gallery fonds and Centre for Art Tapes fonds held by the Dalhousie University Archives. Select documents, posters, and photographs from 1970 to 1984 were intermingled in chronological order for the first time. The exhibition was presented by the Dalhousie Art Gallery from January 22 - April 17, 2016. Texts prepared for this exhibition include a main panel that introduced the exhibit and four "thematic" panels that introduced clusters of documents which disrupted the chronological orientation of the exhibition. Document clusters were based on quotes from documents in the Eyelevel Gallery fonds and Centre for Art Tapes fonds. The document cluster titled "The machinery by which we have been moved" also included a card with information about artist interviews included in an audio loop that accompanied a video projection of documents and photographs. The card erroneously omitted information about a radio interview with artist and dub-poet Clifton Joseph that was included in the audio loop. Panel text was set by Michelle Gallant, Dalhousie Art Gallery.Item Open Access "The machinery by which we have been moved"(2016-01-22) Barrett, CreightonItem is a video compilation of chronological assortment of documents and photographs from the Eyelevel Gallery fonds and Centre for Art Tapes fonds held by the Dalhouhsie University Archives. The video was produced for the exhibition "Why are we saving All these artist publications + Other Galleries stuffs?" The Emergence of Artist-Run Culture in Halifax, presented by the Dalhousie Art Gallery from 22 January – 17 April, 2016. The video projection was accompanied by an audio loop that features a selection of radio interviews with artists discussing issues such as technology, taxation, funding challenges, and performance art. See http://hdl.handle.net/10222/72740 for related exhibition texts, including a list of interviews included in the audio loop.Item Open Access Digital archives collection assessment(2017-01) Barrett, Creighton; Rosati, DomenicIn May 2016, the Dalhousie University Archives (DUA) initiated an assessment of the Archives Permanent Collection for born-digital archival material stored on digital media carriers. The collection assessment was conducted by Domenic Rosati, Archives Student Intern, with guidance from Creighton Barrett, Digital Archivist. The collection assessment was finished in October 2016. This report outlines the assessment methodology; provides a summary of the data; and establishes a preliminary plan for how to act on the assessment findings.Item Open Access Using archival material to study performing arts and audience reception: presentation for CANA / ENGL / THEA 4501(2017-01-23) Barrett, CreightonItem is a presentation given to students in Dr. Roberta Barker's Canadian Theatre Since 1968 course (CANA / ENGL / THEA 4501.03) on January 23, 2017 in the Killam Memorial Library. The presentation touches on broad issues in performing arts archives and provides an overview of the theatre archive held in the Dalhousie University Archives. The presentation also provides students with information about how to access archival theatre production records for an archival research paper assignment. The collaborative project was described in: Roberta Barker, Creighton Barrett, and Doyle Lahey. “Archival Collaborations: Using Theatre Archives to Teach Canadian Theatre History and Archival Literacy.” Canadian Theatre Review 156 (Fall 2013): 46-51. doi:10.3138/ctr.156.009.Item Open Access Beyond the research data: acquiring and preserving the personal archives of Canadian scientists(2016-11-01) Barrett, CreightonIn recent years, a great deal of attention has been given to the management and preservation of research data and scholarly publications. National and international initiatives are slowly improving access to the data and publications produced through public research funding. These efforts have given new critical roles to librarians and archivists working to acquire, manage, and preserve information in all disciplines, but especially in the sciences and social sciences. Less attention, however, has been given to the personal archives of researchers who produce this scientific material. Policymakers can mandate the deposit of research data and publications produced through research grants but what then becomes of the ancillary records such as correspondence, gray literature, photographs, media coverage, and teaching material? Do the definitions of “research data” and “publication” define the boundary of scientific archives? What standards and best practices should be applied to the analog and digital personal archives of scientists? This presentation will address these questions and other challenges faced by archivists working with scientific material by considering several case studies from the Dalhousie University Archives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Computer punch tape containing fish and bacteria data collected in the early 1960s was recently re-discovered during a comprehensive collections assessment for digital records. A recent mass digitization project enabled the online dissemination of the personal archives of the late oceans policy expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese. In 2015, web archiving tools were used to capture research data produced by the late Ransom Myers, a world-renowned marine biologist and mathematician. In 2016, the Archives acquired hundreds of floppy disks and several hard drives as part of the personal archives of the late Bill Freedman, an environmental scientist who studied the effects of economic activity on ecosystems and biodiversity in the Canadian Arctic and boreal and temperate forests. These case studies will illustrate the fuzzy boundary of scientific archives and highlight some of the current approaches used by the Dalhousie University Archives to acquire and preserve the personal archives of Canadian scientists, including web archiving, digital forensics, digitization, and standards-based cataloguing and preservation activities. The presentation will underscore the importance of personal archives to the long-term preservation of scientific research data and scholarly publications.Item Open Access Digitizing and exhibiting the archives of artist-run centres in Halifax, Nova Scotia(2015-11-20) Barrett, CreightonItem is a presentation given as a "Digital Humanities Brown Bag" session in the Dalhousie University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences on 20 November 2015. The presentation addressed the digitization of archival material carried out as part of an upcoming exhibition project featuring archival collections of Eyelevel Gallery and the Centre for Art Tapes.Item Open Access “Nearer to the Exercises of Heaven”: Nineteenth-Century Maritime Presbyterians and The Choir(Bibliographical Society of Canada, 2015) Barrett, Creighton; MacDonald, Bertrum H.Le chant, plus particulièrement le chant de psaumes, est une tradition très ancienne au sein des églises chrétiennes. Les églises tout comme les écoles de chant utilisaient des hymnes et des chants qui étaient diffusés à travers les pays et les océans par le biais de la transmission orale et, de plus en plus, par le biais de livres imprimés. Les instructions relatives au chant, les chants eux-mêmes et les hymnes étaient imprimés, réimprimés et modifiés afin de satisfaire la demande locale. Des styles musicaux qui perdaient la cote dans certains pays continuaient d’être populaires dans d’autres contrées. En Nouvelle-Écosse, le premier livre de chants, The Harmonicon, a été publié en 1838 à une époque où l’Église presbytérienne était dominante. Trois décennies plus tard, la demande pour un nouvel ouvrage de chants a incité la synode de l’Église presbytérienne des basses provinces de l’Amérique du Nord britannique à publier The Choir, une compilation conçue pour satisfaire « le sain goût de la musique sacrée ». Publié pour la première fois à Halifax en 1871, The Choir a été l’ouvrage de référence pour les congrégations presbytériennes des Maritimes pendant le reste du siècle. Les auteurs de cet article retracent l’histoire de la publication du Choir, ouvrage qui a été compilé par le Comité de chant de l’Église presbytérienne. Tous les détails concernant les éditions et les réimpressions du livre sont fournis et expliqués par les auteurs. Ces derniers concluent leur article par une analyse des contenus de l’ouvrage. Ils se penchent plus spécifiquement sur les éléments textuels qui montrent que les compilateurs ont porté une attention particulière au public local à qui cet ouvrage était destiné. Parmi ces éléments, mentionnons l’utilisation des noms de lieux locaux pour les titres des chants de même que l’inclusion d’hymnes composés par des habitants de la Nouvelle-Écosse et de « fuging tunes » (un hymne qui ressemble à une fugue, avec différentes voix (soprano, alto, etc.) chantant le même texte à des moments décalés). De tels hymnes étaient d’ailleurs composés pour un style de chant vieillot qui était toujours en vogue dans les Maritimes, bien longtemps après qu’il est disparu du répertoire de la musique religieuse ailleurs en Amérique du Nord et au Royaume-Uni.Item Open Access Geographic Information Management and Archives(2015-11-18) Barrett, CreightonItem is a presentation given to students in INFO 6681 Geospatial Information Management (Fall 2025), taught by Jennifer Grek Martin. The topic of the presentation is "geographic information management and archives." The presentation illustrates how the Dalhousie University Archives worked with the GIS Centre to develop a map of finding aids in the Archives Catalogue and Online Collections.Item Open Access Diagram of Dalhousie Libraries Digital Collections (Version 1.0)(2015-06-05) Barrett, CreightonItem is a diagram that illustrates a proposed architecture for creating and providing access to digital collections at the Dalhousie University Libraries. The diagram was presented at a Research and Scholarly Communications planning meeting on June 16, 2015Item Open Access Dalhousie Libraries Digital Collections(2011-07-27) Barrett, CreightonItem is a presentation on the maintenance of digital collections created by the Dalhousie Libraries. The presentation was shared with staff of the University Archives and the Libraries Website Assessment Committee.Item Open Access Digital Archives Update(2015-10-15) Barrett, CreightonItem is a presentation given to the Dalhousie Libraries' Library Council on October 15, 2015. The topic of the presentation was a new "pilot" archives document delivery service, the Archives Catalogue and Online Collections, and a suite of new copyright tools developed as part of the Elisabeth Mann Borgese Digitization Project.Item Open Access Twenty-Five Years of Popular Music in Nova Scotia:The Archives of Solar Audio and Recording Limited(2015-10-01) Barrett, CreightonItem is a presentation given to the Performing Arts Research Forum at the Dalhousie University Fountain School of Performing Arts on October 1, 2015. The topic of the presentation was the archives of Solar Audio and Recording Limited.Item Open Access Using the Dalhousie University Archives(2015-09-24) Barrett, CreightonItem is a presentation on using the Dalhousie University Archives given to Dr. Jerry Bannister's ASSC 1200 / HIST 1900 students on September 24, 2015. The presentation introduces the Dalhousie Libraries and the University Archives and provides information on the Archives Catalogue and Online Collections and other research tools.Item Open Access Flyer for rountable discussion on residual media and closing reception for "Investigation 1: Electronic equipment discarded between 2004 and 2009 by arts and cultural organizations in the Halifax Regional Municaplity"(Artifact Institute, 2014-08) Dallett, Tim; Kelly, Adam; Wilson, ConnieIn conjunction with its ongoing project Investigation 1: Electronic equipment discarded between 2004 and 2009 by arts and cultural organizations in the Halifax Regional Municipality, the Artifact Institute is hosting an informal roundtable with an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners to discuss various ways of engaging with residual media. The roundtable will address different ways of thinking about and dealing with the ever-increasing accumulation of electronics, touching on questions of technological practice, ecological and social activism, media arts, archival work, archaeology, material cultural studies, and waste management. The event will be of interest to anyone curious about how their relationship to technology is affected by the notion of obsolescence. The roundtable will be bookended by a closing reception for Investigation 1. Participants in the roundtable discussion: Bruce Barber, Media Arts, NSCAD University Becka Barker, Media artist Creighton Barrett, Dalhousie University Archives Robert Bean, Media Arts, NSCAD University Ashley Bedet, Artifact Institute Erica Butler, Habitat Radio, CKDU-FM Bob Chiasson, Plan B Tim Dallett, Artifact Institute Adam Kelly, Artifact Institute Connie Wilson, Artifact Institute