Access to records for people who were in out-of-home care: moving beyond 'third dimension' archival practice

Abstract

The Records Continuum model, particularly its notion of the pluralised, ‘fourth dimension’ where records can have multiple meanings and multiple stakeholders, provides a useful framework for examining ‘care’ records and the roles they can play in the emerging processes of remembering and forgetting, providing services and restoring justice to Forgotten Australians and to all those affected by the history of institutional ‘care’. 1 1. This article contains excerpts from the presentation given by Vlad Selakovic in April 2010. Vlad has made an enormous contribution to the ‘Who Am I?’ project, and we thank him for his willingness to share his story and his desire to collaborate with project part..