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Frank Upward

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Frank Upward is a principal researcher in the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics. Previously he was a senior lecturer at Monash University, conducting units in archives, records, information management and information systems activities with particular reference to recordkeeping systems design. He has worked as a consultant and practitioner in these cognate information processing areas and is a co-director of the Recordkeeping Institute, a not for profit organisation that promotes better recordkeeping practices.

Email: frank.upward@bigpond.com

Publications by date

Community Informatics and the Information Processing Continuum
Also published in abbreviated form in Larry Stillman and Graham Johanson (eds.) (2007) Constructing and Sharing Memory: Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 318-332
Authors: Frank Upward and Larry Stillman

Teaching Recordkeeping and Archiving Continuum Style
Archival Science, vol. 6, no. 2, June 2006, pp. 219-230
Authors: Frank Upward and Sue McKemmish

Continuum Mechanics and Memory Banks
Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 33, no. 1, May 2005, pp. 84-109
Author: Frank Upward

Continuum Mechanics and Memory Banks: (2) The Making of Culture
Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 33, no. 2, November 2005, pp. 18-51
Author: Frank Upward

The Records Continuum and the Concept of the End Product
Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 32, no. 1, May 2004, pp. 40-63
Author: Frank Upward

A La Recherche Du Tigre Perdu, Contre Sainte-Beuve: Re-constructing the Possibilities in 'Evidence of Me ...' (pdf, 273kb)
First published in Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 29, no. 1, May 2001, pp. 22-43
Authors: Sue McKemmish and Frank Upward

Modelling the Continuum as a Paradigm Shift in Recordkeeping and Archiving Processes, and Beyond - A Personal Reflection'
First published in Records Management Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, 2000, pp., vol. 10, no. 3, 2001, pp. 115-139
Author: Frank Upward

The APB Bank: Managing Electronic Records as an Authoritative Resource Case Study and Teaching Notes
Society of American Archivists, December 1997
Authors: Barbara Reed and Frank Upward

Structuring the Records Continuum, Part Two: Structuration Theory and Recordkeeping
First published in Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 25, no. 1, May 1997, pp. 10-35
Author: Frank Upward

Structuring the Records Continuum - Part One: Postcustodial Principles and Properties
First published in Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 24, no. 2, 1996, pp. 268-285
Author: Frank Upward

In Search of the Continuum: Ian Maclean's 'Australian Experience' Essays on Recordkeeping
First published in The Records Continuum: Ian Maclean and Australian Archives First Fifty Years, Sue McKemmish and Michael Piggott(eds), Ancora Press in association with Australian Archives, Clayton, 1994
Author: Frank Upward

Somewhere Beyond Custody
First published in Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 22, no. 1, May 1994
Authors: Sue McKemmish and Frank Upward