Veronica Bullock
This reference document reviews and classifies salient data collected through the Significance (2001) Survey, and provides a foundation for the development of the second edition of Significance. Please note that this document was originally produced in landscape format, and is available in this form via the .pdf printing option on the next page.
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Veronica Bullock
This short list of overseas references to use of Significance (2001) is based on an internet search in April 2008. At the Significance 2.0 Workshop on 30 April we were told that the methodology is also being used in Vietnam and Africa. We look forward to receiving other (preferably cited) suggestions of overseas usage via the Comments box.
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Ian Cook
This Powerpoint presentation by Facilitator Mr Ian Cook, charts the origination of the concept of significance assessment in thinking about movable cultural heritage in Australia, and follows its development into the Heritage Collections Council publication Significance: A guide to assessing the significance of cultural heritage objects and collections (2001).
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Robyn Sloggett
Associate Professor Sloggett describes a transformation in the care and understanding of University of Melbourne archive, gallery, library and museum collections brought about by use of the significance assessment methodology, as scoped in Significance (2001).
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Roslyn Russell and Kylie Winkworth
This paper was provided to Workshop participants. It provides summaries of the authors' views on the salient features of significance assessment. It also presents their ideas on the direction to be taken by Significance 2.0., based on their combined experience since the release of the first edition in 2001.
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Karen Anderson
Professor Anderson encourages the authors of Significance 2.0 to give equal weight to archival appraisal and management decisions, as to significance assessment methodology.
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Margie Burn
Ms Burn explains how a relatively small proportion of library materials are suitable for significance assessment, and that Significance (2001) is a useful guide to libraries when there is a need to assess significance e.g. to nominate an item or collection for internal or external registers and to set priorities (for disaster planning, digitization or conservation treatment / Memory of the World), to apply for grants or to inform acquisition decisions.
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Eric Archer
Risk assessment and management were developed to deal with undesirable change. These techniques have been used particularly in business, but also within government and other organisations e.g. emergency management agencies, insurance companies.

Mr Archer believes that risk management is becoming more relevant to the conservation and management of collections. He refers to a proposed approach to one aspect of sustainable collection management at the National Museum of Australia, which is predicated upon significance assessment.
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Joy Suliman
Ms Suliman evokes ancient Arabia as she illustrates the power of story. She likens a well crafted story to a well crafted ‘statement of significance’. Each should enable listeners or readers to connect and re-live past experience and values. She also brings us right up to date by providing some valuable insights into how to craft statements of significance for online impact and utility.
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Meredith Walker
As an advocate of Australia ICOMOS and the Burra Charter, Ms Walker firmly places the origins of heritage significance assessment in the built heritage sector, and explains the influence of bureaucracies in overlaying management measures e.g. local, state, national and international. She also makes a case for adapting frameworks of criteria and statements of significance to particular situations.
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Roslyn Russell and Kylie Winkworth
Ms Winkworth made a case for the inclusion of principles in Significance 2.0 as an aid to extending the concept and practice of significance, for example from museums and galleries to archives and libraries. This revised paper takes Workshop discussions into account.

The authors welcome your comments on this ‘working draft’, and also invite you to read and comment on other papers presented at the Workshop by clicking back from this page.
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Roslyn Russell and Kylie Winkworth
Ms Winkworth and Ms Russell have been working on a chapter in Significance 2.0. about levels of significance and thresholds, as scoped at the April 2008 Workshop.

They have provided this discussion paper to describe where there thinking is up to, and to encourage feedback from those interested in this topic.

We also invite you to read and comment on other papers presented at the Workshop by clicking back from this page.
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Ian Cook
Facilitator Mr Ian Cook captures the salient points of the day’s presentations and discussions in this summary table.
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Roslyn Russell and Kylie Winkworth
The Project Team developed an outline for the content and structure of Significance 2.0 on the day after the Workshop, 1 May 2008. This was subsequently revised by the authors to create the following indicative draft Contents. The authors are basing their current work on this plan, in conjunction with a matrix of case studies.
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