Current Research Themes

🧠 Artificial Intelligence & Archives
☁ Cloud Archiving
📦 Big Data Governance
🏛 Digital Preservation
♿ Archive Accessibility
🔐 Right to be Forgotten
📚 Digital Libraries
🗂 Records Management

Academic News

2026 Article accepted on the interdisciplinarity of information science programs in Arab universities.
2025 Research project funded by Sultan Qaboos University on AI and medical records management.
2025 Recent work on archive accessibility, digital preservation and digital transformation in Oman.

Conferences & Symposia Organized

Published & Edited Books

Archives in the Digital Age
Archives in the Digital Age: Preservation and the Right to be Forgotten
Abderrazak Mkadmi · © Wiley / ISTE Editions, 2021 · Digital Tools and Uses Set, vol. 8 · ISBN 9781786306706 · 240 pp.
Archiving has become an increasingly complex process. The challenge is no longer to store data, but to store it intelligently so that it can be exploited over time while maintaining its integrity and authenticity. This book examines how the right to memory confronts the right to be forgotten.
Les archives à l'ère du numérique
Les archives à l'ère du numérique : Préservation et droit à l'oubli
Abderrazak Mkadmi · © ISTE Editions, 2021 · Tools and Digital Uses Series, vol. 6 · ISBN 9781784057343 · 220 p.
French edition — examines the growing complexity of digital archiving and the tension between the right to memory and the right to be forgotten.
DTUC'18 Proceedings
DTUC '18: Proceedings of the 1st Digital Tools & Uses Congress
Dir. E. Reyes, S. Szoniecky, A. Mkadmi et al. · © ACM, New York, 2018 · ISBN 978-1-4503-6451-5
First international Digital Tools & Uses Congress: multidisciplinary conference with five symposia — Web Studies, IoT, Recommender Systems, CIBAHN, and Digital Frontiers.
CIDE.15 – Métiers de l'information
Information, Library and Archive Professions in the Age of Digital Differentiation
Dir. A. Mkadmi, K. Zreik · © Europia Productions, 2012 · ISBN 979-10-90094-10-9 · 231 p.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Electronic Document (CiDE.15): digitization, document life cycle, digital sustainability, metadata, social networks.
Archivage numérique et réseaux – CIBAHN 2016
Digital Archiving and Networks – Proceedings of CIBAHN 2016
Dir. A. Mkadmi, I. Saleh, K. Habchi · © ISD Editions, 2016 · ISBN 978-9973-904-13-3 · 249 p.
Proceedings of the first edition of CIBAHN: a forum on the transformation of the archivist profession in the age of social web.
Recherche collaborative d'informations
Collaborative Information Retrieval: Rethinking IRS Architecture in the Digital Age
Abderrazak Mkadmi · © Éditions Universitaires Européennes, 2016 · ISBN 978-3-639-52769-8 · 300 p.
Use of XML towards the Semantic Web, ontologies, semantic annotation and collaborative work tools — illustrated by the ICRS system.
Lecture numérique et usages du web
Digital Reading and Web Uses
© Institut Supérieur de Documentation, 2010 · ISBN 978-9973-904-10-2 · 186 p.
Papers from the ISD study days of April 2009 on digital reading: ten French and Tunisian researchers on the changes in reading in the digital age.
Les hypermédias : conception et réalisation
Hypermedia: Design and Implementation (chapters 1 & 2)
Dir. Imad Saleh (chap. 1–2 co-written with Mkadmi & Reyes) · © Hermès Science, Lavoisier, 2005 · 340 p.
Two chapters: From Hypertext to Hypermedia (overview of hypertext and the HyWebMap system) and Hypermedia in the Service of Collaborative Work (ICRS and Hypertectol, Paragraphe Lab, Paris 8).
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