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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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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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Technology and the Transformation of Archival Description

Journal of Archival Organization, 2006
SUMMARY The emergence of computer and network technologies has presented the archival profession with daunting challenges as well as inspiring opportunities. Archivists have been actively imagining and realizing the application of advanced technologies to their professional functions and activities.
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Enrichment and Structuring of Archival Description Metadata. [PDF]

, 2011
Cultural heritage institutions are making their digital content available and searchable online. Digital metadata descriptions play an important role in this endeavour. This metadata is mostly manually created and often lacks detailed annotation, consistency and, most importantly, explicit semantic content descriptors which would facilitate online ...
Zervanou, Kalliopi, Korkontzelos, Ioannis, van den Bosch, Antal, Ananiadou, Sophia   +3 more
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Automated Archival Descriptions with Federated Intelligence of LLMs

International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Enforcing archival standards requires specialized expertise, and manually creating metadata descriptions for archival materials is a tedious and error-prone task. This work aims at exploring the potential of agentic AI and large language models (LLMs) in
Jinghua Groppe, Andreas Marquet, Annabel Walz, S. Groppe   +3 more
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EAD as an Archival Descriptive Standard

The American Archivist, 1997
Encoded Archival Description has a great deal of potential as an archival descriptive standard. Not only is it a data structure that is widely applicable to a variety of institutions and collection types on an international scale, it may also foster common practices regarding data content for finding aids. To become an official SAA descriptive standard,
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Descriptive Standards and the Archival Profession

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2003
SUMMARY Studies of professions emphasize various meansby which an occupation increases its authority over areas of activity within its jurisdiction. Development of standards and codification of knowledge are important stages in professionalization for any occupation.
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Descriptive Cataloging for Archival Materials

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 1990
This paper describes the significant characteristics of archival materials and of archival methods of description and arrangement. Key sections of Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts are explicated with particular reference to the ways in which this code reflects the nature of contemporary archival records and practice while remaining compatible
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