Global archival frameworks of the kind imagined in the pluralising 4 th dimension of the records continuum model face a major challenge: how to build archival systems and associated practices that operate and inter-operate effectively worldwide, but respect and empower the local and indigenous. In this paper we explore the nature of that challenge and the implications for archival research and education agendas, and for archival science itself in an increasingly globalised world. Disclaimer: The authors are keenly aware that this article grapples with complex insider-outsider issues and is inevitably framed in terms of a particular world view. This may well be challenged by or will evolve based on the richer understandings of differing worldviews that it is hoped will flow from engaging with the local and the indigenous, and pluralising our research and education agendas on the basis of those understandings. We would also hope to see this engagement reflected in the pages of this and other archival journals. Archival Paradigms In human societies, individuals and groups make and keep records that document their activities and function as evidence and memory. While records and recordkeeping may take many forms, which records are made and kept relates to prevailing ideas about their usefulness and continuing value to individuals, groups and the wider society. Societies institutionalise their collective archives according to their own evidence and memory paradigms. These paradigms influence what is remembered and what is forgotten, what is preserved and what is destroyed, how archival knowledge is defined, what forms archives take, how archives are described and indexed, and who has ownership, custodial and access rights relating to them. They also shape archival notions of reliability, authenticity, and trustworthiness. 1
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