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Christopher Daniel Felker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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multi level optimum added value encoded Archival Description ead encoded Archival context eac Descriptions in the absence of describing archives a content standard dacs guidance
Social Science Research Network, 2012Co-Authors: Christopher Daniel FelkerAbstract:The UCLA Civil Rights Project (collection 0787) has been processed using localized Archival Description rules for court cases. These rules adhere to a micro-descriptive scheme designed to enhance and further develop new methods and tools to: - extract and assemble Archival authority Descriptions- enhance methods for matching and combining records describing the same case - develop methods for accommodating descriptive data- add geographic coordinates to places where court related documents circulate- develop timeline or map rendering of chronological biographies or histories- enable users to query social professional networks- develop graphical displays of complex, dense networks- develop graphical displays of organizational charts- develop sequential displays of legal organizations / actions merging or dividingThis document discusses current limitations existing Archival descriptive frameworks - DACS - and the work of UCLA staff to compensate for the gaps in the professional standard. We look forward to starting a conversation within the Archival community (especially those currently working with litigation records) on revisions and amendments.
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Multi Level Optimum + Added Value Encoded Archival Description EAD/Encoded Archival Context EAC Descriptions in the Absence of Describing Archives a Content Standard DACS Guidance
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012Co-Authors: Christopher Daniel FelkerAbstract:The UCLA Civil Rights Project (collection 0787) has been processed using localized Archival Description rules for court cases. These rules adhere to a micro-descriptive scheme designed to enhance and further develop new methods and tools to: - extract and assemble Archival authority Descriptions- enhance methods for matching and combining records describing the same case - develop methods for accommodating descriptive data- add geographic coordinates to places where court related documents circulate- develop timeline or map rendering of chronological biographies or histories- enable users to query social professional networks- develop graphical displays of complex, dense networks- develop graphical displays of organizational charts- develop sequential displays of legal organizations / actions merging or dividingThis document discusses current limitations existing Archival descriptive frameworks - DACS - and the work of UCLA staff to compensate for the gaps in the professional standard. We look forward to starting a conversation within the Archival community (especially those currently working with litigation records) on revisions and amendments.
Jinfang Niu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Event-based Archival information organization
Archival Science, 2015Co-Authors: Jinfang NiuAbstract:Event-based information organization methods from other communities provide insights for rethinking Archival information organization and redesigning Archival Description metadata. Differences between event and function are analyzed, and the possibility of using events as a kind of provenance to organize and describe Archival information is discussed. Two approaches to redesigning Archival Description metadata are discussed: making the current narrative Descriptions of archives management events more structured and replacing encoded Archival Description with a metadata framework based on recordkeeping and archives management events in records life cycle.
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Transforming Archival Education
Archives and Manuscripts, 2015Co-Authors: Jinfang NiuAbstract:This paper discusses limitations of the current Archival Description standard Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and proposes two solutions to overcome these limitations. One solution is to modify the current EAD schema based on the entity–relationship model defined in the Australian Series System. The other solution is to replace EAD with another standard, the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), which can be used to produce more flexible Archival Descriptions in linked data format.
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Recordkeeping metadata and Archival Description: a revisit
Archives and Manuscripts, 2013Co-Authors: Jinfang NiuAbstract:Metadata go through an evolutionary process from creation to Archival preservation. During this process, some metadata are re-used (inheritance), other metadata are eliminated (extinction) and still others are updated or newly generated (mutation). Unlike other literature that focuses on metadata inheritance and mutation, this evolutionary view highlights the extinction of metadata. As such, it might raise awareness about the appraisal and selection of metadata in digital curation practice.
Heather Macneil - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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What finding aids do: Archival Description as rhetorical genre in traditional and web-based environments
Archival Science, 2012Co-Authors: Heather MacneilAbstract:Research and scholarship in the fields of rhetoric and composition have been instrumental in developing a framework for treating non-literary texts (e.g., scientific articles, memoranda, instructional handbooks) as part of social processes. Rhetorical genre theorists have developed methodologies and modes of analysis for studying both texts and their contexts, that is, their content and structure, the processes involved in their production, transmission, and interpretation, and the temporal, institutional, and rhetorical contexts in which these processes take place. Approaching Archival Description as a rhetorical genre creates opportunities for examining the social actions that finding aids participate in and accomplish and the ways in which these descriptive texts work to construct a community of writers and readers. It also creates opportunities for examining the impact of the World Wide Web on the communicative aims of Archival finding aids. This article reports on the first stage of a research project exploring Archival Description through the lens of rhetorical genre theory with a specific focus on the finding aids that archivists create as part of the process of making historical records available for use. Its aim is threefold: to explain the rationale for the research, to identify and elaborate the elements of a conceptual framework for studying Archival Description as rhetorical genre, and to sketch the parameters of such a study and the questions to be addressed within those parameters.
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Trusting Description: Authenticity, Accountability, and Archival Description Standards
Journal of Archival Organization, 2009Co-Authors: Heather MacneilAbstract:It has been suggested that one of the purposes of Archival Description is to establish grounds for presuming the authenticity of the records being described. The article examines the implications of this statement by examining the relationship between and among authenticity, Archival Description, and Archival accountability, assessing how this relationship is made manifest in a contemporary Archival Description standard—the General International Standard for Archival Description—and considering the relationship between Description and documentation.
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Picking Our Text: Archival Description, Authenticity, and the Archivist as Editor
The American Archivist, 2005Co-Authors: Heather MacneilAbstract:A number of recent Archival initiatives have asserted a relationship between Archival Description and authenticity. This article establishes a preliminary foundation for understanding the nature of that relationship by reviewing the literature relating to Archival Description and authenticity, comparing the authenticating function of Archival Description with that of textual criticism, and identifying three lines of research inquiry that present themselves in light of that comparison.
Scott Carlson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Dublin Core Conference - Creating a Linked Data-Friendly Metadata Application Profile for Archival Description
2017Co-Authors: Mark A Matienzo, Elizabeth Russey Roke, Scott CarlsonAbstract:The objective of this poster is to provide an overview of efforts to apply and extend Schema.org for archives and Archival Description. The authors see the application of Schema.org and extensions as a low barrier means to publish easily consumable linked data about Archival resources, institutions that hold them, and contextual entities such as people and organizations responsible for their creation.
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creating a linked data friendly metadata application profile for Archival Description
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 2017Co-Authors: Mark A Matienzo, Elizabeth Russey Roke, Scott CarlsonAbstract:The objective of this poster is to provide an overview of efforts to apply and extend Schema.org for archives and Archival Description. The authors see the application of Schema.org and extensions as a low barrier means to publish easily consumable linked data about Archival resources, institutions that hold them, and contextual entities such as people and organizations responsible for their creation.
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creating a linked data friendly metadata application profile for Archival Description
arXiv: Digital Libraries, 2017Co-Authors: Mark A Matienzo, Elizabeth Russey Roke, Scott CarlsonAbstract:We provide an overview of efforts to apply and extend Schema.org for archives and Archival Description. The authors see the application of Schema.org and extensions as a low barrier means to publish easily consumable linked data about Archival resources, institutions that hold them, and contextual entities such as people and organizations responsible for their creation.
Karen F. Gracy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Archival Description and linked data: a preliminary study of opportunities and implementation challenges
Archival Science, 2015Co-Authors: Karen F. GracyAbstract:This paper presents the results of a study to investigate how archives can connect their collections to related data sources through the use of Semantic Web technologies, specifically Linked Data. Questions explored included (a) What types of data currently available in Archival surrogates such as Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids and Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) records may be useful if converted to Linked Data? (b) For those potentially useful data points identified in Archival surrogates, how might one align data structures found in those surrogates to the data structures of other relevant internal or external information sources? (c) What features of current standards and data structures present impediments or challenges that must be overcome in order to achieve interoperability among disparate data sources? To answer these questions, the researcher identified metadata elements of potential use as Linked Data in Archival surrogates, as well as metadata element sets and vocabularies of data sets that could serve as pathways to relevant external data sources. Data sets chosen for the study included DBpedia and schema.org; metadata element sets examined included Friend of a Friend (FOAF), GeoNames, and Linking Open Description of Events (LODE). The researcher then aligned tags found in the EAD encoding standard to related classes and properties found in these Linked Data sources and metadata element sets. To investigate the third question about impediments to incorporating Linked Data in Archival Descriptions, the researcher analyzed the locations and frequencies at which controlled and uncontrolled access points (personal and family name, corporate name, geographic name, and genre/form entities) appeared in a sample of MARC and EAD Archival descriptive records by using a combination of hand counts and the natural language processing (NLP) tool, OpenCalais. The results of the location and frequency analysis, combined with the results of the alignment process, helped the researcher identify several critical challenges currently impeding interoperability among Archival information systems and relevant Linked Data sources, including differences in granularity between Archival and other data source vocabularies, and inadequacies of current encoding standards to support semantic tagging of potential access points embedded in free text areas of Archival surrogates.
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Who's Ready to Surf the Next Wave? A Study of Perceived Challenges to Implementing New and Revised Standards for Archival Description
The American Archivist, 2014Co-Authors: Karen F. Gracy, Frank P. LambertAbstract:Archivists in the United States must grapple with many changes to Archival descriptive standards in the next few years, including major revisions to Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD), widespread adoption of the Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) standard, and harmonization of those standards with Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Resource Description and Access (RDA). This study aims to measure the degree to which archivists are prepared to cope with this evolution in descriptive practices. Archivists were asked to complete a survey aimed at identifying and analyzing their familiarity with these standards and assessing perceptions of their readiness to adapt workflows and systems to changes in those standards. In particular, the survey targeted perceptions of possible technical challenges and pressures on current resources that may impede adoption of new and revised descriptive standa...
