Mike Jones

Mike Jones

Mike Jones

Consultant Research Archivist

eScholarship Research Centre

About

Mike Jones is an archivist, researcher and historian. He started at the eScholarship Research Centre in 2008, following a Masters by Research in Art History at the University of Edinburgh and a period working in the corporate sector. After six and a half years at the ESRC, Mike successfully applied for the McCoy Project STRAPA (Strategic Australian Postgraduate Award) and commenced his PhD with the University’s School of Historical and Philosophical Studies in mid-December 2014. While undertaking postgraduate research he remains a Consultant Research Archivist at the ESRC, as well as holding a Research Associate position at Museum Victoria and providing support to government and community-based digital and archival projects as an independent consultant.


During his time at the ESRC Mike has held significant positions on numerous digital and physical archival projects – including as Lead Archivist and Acting Program Manager of the National Find & Connect Web Resource Project – and has collaborated with academics, government departments, community organisations and the GLAM sector. He has also run training sessions, given lectures, and been a guest presenter talking about archives, documentation, metadata, research data management, and social media.


Mike is a committee member for the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities and the Victorian Branch of the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA), and a reviewer for the annual Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations’ Digital Humanities conference and the Journal of Knowledge Management. In addition to the McCoy Project scholarship, Mike was awarded a 2013 Mander Jones award (with Rebe Taylor and Gavan McCarthy), the 2015 Wyselaskie Scholarship in History (awarded to the student with the best performance in the first year of the PhD), and is the 2016 recipient of the Sharman Award from the Australian Society of Archivists.


His Twitter handle is @mikejonesmelb, and he blogs periodically at http://www.mikejonesonline.com/contextjunky/

Selected Publications

Documenting Things: bringing archival thinking to interdisciplinary collaborations
Jones, M, 2016, 'Documenting Things: bringing archival thinking to interdisciplinary collaborations,' Australian Library Journal, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 213-223. DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2016.1204976

The decontextualised object: archives, evidence, knowledge and loss
Jones, M, 2016, 'The decontextualised object: archives, evidence, knowledge and loss,' International Council on Archives Congress 2016, Seoul, South Korea.

Mind the gaps: missing connections in museum documentation
Jones, M, 2016, 'Mind the gaps: missing connections in museum documentation,' ICOM Milano 2016: 24th General Conference, Milan, Italy.

What we talk about when we talk about things
Jones, M, 'What we talk about when we talk about things,' DHA2016: Digital Humanities Australasia, Hobart, Australia.

Artefacts and archives: considering cross-collection contextual information networks in museums
Jones, M, 2016, 'Artefacts and archives: considering cross-collection contextual information networks in museums,' presented at MWA2015: Museums and the Web Asia 2015, 5-8 October 2015, Melbourne, Australia. Printed in Proctor, N, and Cherry, R (eds.), 2016, Museums & the Web: Selected Papers and Proceedings from Two International Conferences, Museums and the Web, Silver Spring, MD, pp. 123-135.

Joining the Dots: Building Connections within GLAM Organizations
Jones, M, 2015, 'Joining the Dots: Building Connections within GLAM Organizations,' in Decker, J (ed.), Collections Care and Stewardship, Innovative Approaches for Museums, Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 91-98.

Collaborating across institutional and jurisdictional boundaries: enabling the emergence of a national innovation system through public knowledge management
Vines, R, Jones, M, and McCarthy, G, 2015, ‘Collaborating across institutional and jurisdictional boundaries: enabling the emergence of a national innovation system through public knowledge management,’ Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 187-197. DOI: 10.1057/kmrp.2013.41

Looking beyond the archive: utilising Encoded Archival Context in a broader societal context
McCarthy, G, Smith, A, & Jones, M,  2014, ‘Looking beyond the archive: utilising Encoded Archival Context in a broader societal context,’ Journal of Archival Organisation, Vol. 12, No. 1-2, pp. 143-164. DOI: 10.1080/15332748.2015.1001206

Identity, records and archival evidence: exploring the needs of Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants
Jones, M, & O’Neill, C, 2014, ‘Identity, records and archival evidence: exploring the needs of Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants,’ Archives and Records, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 110-125. DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2014.951032

Contrapuntal archival methods
Jones, M, 2014, ‘Contrapuntal archival methods,’ Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 184-186. DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2014.911684

An educative intervention: assisting in the self-assessment of archival practice in 12 community service organisations
Downing, Melissa, Michael Jones, Cathy Humphreys, Gavan McCarthy, Cate O’Neill and Rachel Tropea, ‘An educative intervention: assisting in the self-assessment of archival practice in 12 community service organisations,’ Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2013, pp. 116-128.