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Archival description in OAI-ORE

J. Digit. Inf., 2010
International Conference on Open Repositories : Proceedings, The 5th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2010), Madrid, Spain, 6-9 July ...
Kaplan, Deborah, Sauer, Anne, Wilczek, Eliot   +2 more
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Archival description and finding aids

OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, 2002
Archival arrangement and description establish physical and intellectual control over archives and manuscripts, enabling users to find the records they need. Description is the process of analyzing and recording information about these materials. The descriptive tools used to convey this information are called finding aids. In order to find manuscripts
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Archival Description

Journal of Internet Cataloging, 2001
This essay focuses on the nature of archives, the function of description and how the former governs the requirements of both the content and structure of descriptive products. Archival description is at the heart of archival work and is informed by the archival principle of respect des fonds, which in turn governs the way archives are arranged and ...
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In-place Synchronisation of Hierarchical Archival Descriptions

2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2018
This short paper describes work undertaken by the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project to achieve reliable and repeatable harvesting of hierarchical archival metadata that is robust to structural changes and reorganisation of the source material.
Mike Bryant 0001, Linda Reijnhoudt, Boyan Simeonov   +2 more
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Archival description, information retrieval, and the construction of thesauri in israeli archives

Archival Science, 2005
The introduction of computers, beginning in the late 1960s, for use in the description of textual archival materials has posed new challenges for archivists in general, and Israeli archivists in particular. Today, Israeli archives face several issues: acceptance of international standards and their adaptation to the conditions and needs of Israeli ...
Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll, Assaf Tractinsky   +1 more
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Archival Description of Notated Music

2020
A guide to archival description of notated music, co-published by the Music Library Association and Society of American Archivists (SAA). Intended for use in conjunction with SAA's Describing Archives: A Content Standard. Includes a broad overview of music description in an archival context, an extensive discussion and bibliography of related resources
Music Library Association, Becerra-Licha, Sofía, Bewley, John, Feustle, Maristella, Novara, Vincent J., Snyder, Matthew, Spicher, Karen, Surles, Elizabeth   +7 more
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The Organization and Description of Science Archives in America

Isis, 2013
The creation of science archives, the historical study of modern science, and major changes in archival practice roughly coincided in the 1950s and 1960s. This has allowed science archives to respond to contemporary issues in the history of science. It has also allowed them to develop as an integral part of the revolution in archival practice since ...
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System evaluation of archival description and access

ACM SIGIR Forum, 2012
How do archives provide access to their records and let users search? The answer is archival description. Encoded Archival Description (EAD) in Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the de facto technical standard for "electronic" archival descriptions.
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Participatory description: decolonizing descriptive methodologies in archives

Archival Science, 2019
By looking at current examples of participatory archives, this paper hopes to introduce and encourage a discussion of participatory description. How does an originating community describe their records? How can the nuances of another language be allowed for in archival description?
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Archival Arrangement and Description

2017
Arrangement and description are processes traditionally associated with the transformation of an individual or corporate archive into a broader archival framework in order for it to function, alongside other such archives, as accessible collective memory.
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