https://www.granthurley.ca/ Recent content on Grant Hurley Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Wed, 07 Apr 2021 02:06:04 -0400 https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/automatically-downloading-and-renaming-uploaded-files-from-formstack-with-wget/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 02:06:04 -0400 https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/automatically-downloading-and-renaming-uploaded-files-from-formstack-with-wget/ As part of a conference I am currently organizing, we use the site Formstack to gather information from speakers like their bios, paper titles and such. Formstack includes the ability for user to upload files to a form. In our case, we included the option for speakers upload photographs of themselves for inclusion in the program. Formstack does not have an automated way to export these files via their user interface as far as I am able to tell. https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/running-and-integrating-archivematica-and-atom-with-vagrant/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:00:27 -0400 https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/running-and-integrating-archivematica-and-atom-with-vagrant/ Hark! An Archivematica-generated DIP in AtoM! I really like the Vagrant option that Artefactual makes available for testing Archivematica and AtoM. It’s quick and easy to get an instance of each up and running that is great for testing in a super low-risk situation. Though we also have development instances of Archivematica for this purpose at my workplace, one understandable but roadblock-y thing is that librarians/archivists like myself don’t get admin access (probably for good reason), so when I need to verify something that requires root permissions it’s really useful to have the local option. https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/the-alcuin-society-awards-creating-a-dataset-and-looking-at-rates-of-new-winners-over-time/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 08:21:51 -0400 https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/the-alcuin-society-awards-creating-a-dataset-and-looking-at-rates-of-new-winners-over-time/ This post was also published on the Alcuin Society’s blog. For the past few years, I’ve been slowly poking away at a data project related to the history of book design in Canada. My goal was to produce a complete list of all the winners of the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada and I’m happy to say that this project is finally complete, or at least complete enough to release online. https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/digital-preservation-is-people-thinking-about-digital-skills-for-archivists/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:47:46 -0500 https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/digital-preservation-is-people-thinking-about-digital-skills-for-archivists/ This piece was originally presented as part of the afternoon panel on digital preservation at the Archives Association of Ontario’s 2018 Institutional Issues Forum on October 25, 2018. Many thanks to the AAO for hosting me and giving me a space to think through some issues that have been on my mind for a while. My thanks also go to Ryan Kirkby for shepherding the session, to Heather Ryckman, my excellent fellow panelist. https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/three-synthesis-statements-on-open-government-and-archives-and-records-management/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:05:13 -0500 https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/three-synthesis-statements-on-open-government-and-archives-and-records-management/ As the InterPARES Trust project starts to wrap up, it has provided an occaison to reflect on the five years of work (!) that was completed. I was priveleged to work as a research assistant and later research consultant (i.e. pro bono post-graduation) on project NA08: “The Implications of Open Government, Open Data, and Big Data on the Management of Digital Records in an Online Environment.” NA08 included some fantastic people and inspirational professionals: Valerie Léveillé, John McDonald, Kelly Rovegno, Jim Suderman, and Kat Timms, who produced an impressive body of papers and insights from this project. https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/notes-from-the-aca-screening-of-stories-we-tell/ Fri, 23 Jun 2017 11:44:22 -0400 https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/notes-from-the-aca-screening-of-stories-we-tell/ At the recent ACA conference in Ottawa, I had the wonderful opportunity to host a screening of one of my favorite films - Sarah Polley’s 2012 documentary Stories We Tell. I’ve long been convinced that this film has a lot to say about archives. It’s a film fundamentally concerned with how we understand the past through the contradictions of memory and the opaque borders shared between memories and what has been recorded. https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/taking-collaboration-from-buzzword-to-action-a-take-on-the-aao-2017-conference/ Tue, 09 May 2017 21:06:04 -0400 https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/taking-collaboration-from-buzzword-to-action-a-take-on-the-aao-2017-conference/ A conference swag item was this coaster with embedded flower seeds. Quite a nice metaphor, no? Though I’ve been a volunteer for the Archives Association of Ontario since late 2015, I finally had the chance to attend my first AAO conference last month at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. I’d long heard that the AAO conference is one that is firmly devoted to archival practice, and this edition (the 14th since 2004! https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/hello-world-situating-myself/ Sun, 09 Apr 2017 16:02:31 -0500 https://www.granthurley.ca/blog/hello-world-situating-myself/ In the tradition of ‘hello world’ posts everywhere, I’d like to begin this blog by greeting anyone out there in internet land, particularly archives-and-libraries-on-the-internet-land. This blog is a place to hold my thoughts, to write out a problem or question that’s been nagging me, and to report on the successes and failures of my work. I’m especially interested in interrogating questions in archival theory and practice, and particularly, in digital preservation and related areas of study. https://www.granthurley.ca/cv/ Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:52:50 -0400 https://www.granthurley.ca/cv/ Current Role Current Committee & Service Roles Education Certifications Past Roles Past Committee & Service Roles Teaching Awards & Grants Student Roles Current Role Canadiana Librarian, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, ON. At the Fisher Library, I serve as the curator of our significant and extensive Canadian collections with a focus on primary sources and rare books documenting Canadian history and the literatures of Canada. https://www.granthurley.ca/research/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:48:30 -0500 https://www.granthurley.ca/research/ Books Refereed Journal Articles Non-Refereed Journal Articles Book Chapters Reports & Guides Proceedings Book Reviews Theses Conference Presentations & Posters Talks & Webinars Exhibitions & History Projects Other Writing Books Hupfield, M. & Hurley, G. (2025). WAABAZII. Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and Theorema Editions. Refereed Journal Articles Hurley, G. (2017). Your comments here: Contextualizing technologies, seeking records and supporting transparency for citizen engagement. Tidsskriftet Arkiv, 8(1), 1-25. https://www.granthurley.ca/about/ Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:16:04 -0500 https://www.granthurley.ca/about/ Hello! I am an archivist and librarian. My pronouns are he/him. I work as the Canadiana Librarian for the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. I also serve as a sessional instructor for the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto for the course INF2229H: Processing Digital Archives. The work of stewarding library collections, both digitial and physical, is grounded on Indigenous lands. I am grateful to live on the traditional lands of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River.