COMMA 2017-2 Miscellany
A miscellany issue, by its very nature, is difficult to categorize. A medley of different ideas, themes and foci, it can be challenging to find the common thread or tease out a leitmotif running through the submissions. The 2018 miscellany edition of Comma is no different. We have submissions in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. The authors hail from South, Central and North America, Europe, Africa and Australia. These articles cover records management issues, (including autoclassification software, access barriers to administrative records and records management taxonomies), archival concerns (decolonization of archives, reprography, histories of archives, physical access challenges, archival theft, open government and Wikipedia); and professional concerns (job requirements in the international field, the need to further standardize Arabic archival terminology). Not only do the fourteen contributors write in different languages, come from different places and reflect on different issues, but their experience-levels range from new students of archival science to well-established professionals.