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Sound Practice: Evaluating DACS Compliance in Archival Description of Music Recordings
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal, 2018 Standardization of descriptive practice supports improved access to archival collections with sound recordings of music. However, description of music sound recordings is complicated because of the unique characteristics of both music and sound ...
Elizabeth Surles
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Addressing cultural insensitivity in archival description
Journal of New Librarianship, 2020 Issues surrounding inappropriate language use in library cataloging and archival description have a history of discussion. This literature review examines biased language in library and archive use for collection description and explores collaborative ...
Autumn Wetli
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A unified platform for archival description and access [PDF]
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2007 The archival community has developed content and data structure standards to facilitate access to the diverse and unique sets of archival records, personal papers, and manuscript collections that are held by archival repositories and special collections libraries. However, these standards are difficult for archivists to use and are often implemented in
Christopher J. Prom +3 more
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Linked Open Data native cataloguing and archival description
JLIS.it, 2021 In the last years cultural heritage institutions have radically changed the way they publish their data. Publishing Linked Open Data (LOD) offers many advantages, in terms of innovation, visibility, and engagement with patrons.
Marilena Daquino
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EAD - enabling armchair delivery : approaches to encoding finding aids at the University of Liverpool [PDF]
, 1998 EAD is increasingly being selected as the primary data format for constructing archival finding aids in the British Archive Community as the new technologies and know-how required to encode lists are being embraced in many repositories. One major problem
Allinson, Julie
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Adoption and diffusion of Encoded Archival Description [PDF]
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2005 AbstractIn this article, findings from a study on the diffusion and adoption of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) within the U.S. archival community are reported. Using E. M. Rogers' (1995) theory of the diffusion of innovations as a theoretical framework, the authors surveyed 399 archives and manuscript repositories that sent participants to EAD ...
Elizabeth Yakel, Jihyun Kim 0002
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Many-to-many: the archival bond as a measure of potential relationships
JLIS.itThe article examines the function of the archival bond and the different ways in which it manifests itself in processes of documentary sedimentation, and then proceeds to analyse the persistence of this foundational concept and its evolutions within the
Federico Valacchi
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Not the institutions but the subjects matter. Beyond the necessary approximation of finding aids?
JLIS.it, 2023 This article analyzes the archival tools’ historical, scientific, and cultural dimensions and their underlying techniques. The aim is then to identify the ways in which it could be possible to go beyond the inevitable approximation of the information in
Federico Valacchi
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Reconciliation through Description: Using Metadata to Realize the Vision of the National Research Centre for Truth and Reconciliation [PDF]
, 2015 PostprintThis articlewill discuss the history and context surrounding the document collection and statement gathering mandates of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the challenges the newly established National Research Centre for ...
Callison, Camille +2 more
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Crosswalking EAD: Collaboration in Archival Description
Information Technology and Libraries, 2005 Different library departments must work together, both formally and informally, in implementing encoded archival description and in repackaging descriptive information about archival collections to other formats, particularly machine-readable cataloging.
Amy McCrory, Beth M. Russell
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