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Devan Ray Donaldson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the digitized Archival Document trustworthiness scale
International Journal of Digital Curation, 2016Co-Authors: Devan Ray DonaldsonAbstract:Designated communities are central to validation of preservation. If a designated community is able to understand and use information found within a digital repository, the assumption is that the information has been properly preserved. As judging the trustworthiness of information requires at least some level of understanding of that information, this paper presents results of a study aimed at developing a tool for measuring designated community members’ perceptions of trustworthiness for preserved information found within a digital repository. The study focuses on genealogists at the Washington State Digital Archives who routinely interact with digitized genealogical records, including digitized marriage, death, and birth records. Results of the study include construction of an original Digitized Archival Document Trustworthiness Scale (DADTS). DADTS is a ready-made tool for digital curators to use to measure the trustworthiness perceptions of their designated community members. Implications of this study include the feasibility of engaging members of a designated community in the construction of a scale for measuring trustworthiness perception, thereby providing deeper insight into the understandability and usability of preserved information by that designated community.
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the digitized Archival Document trustworthiness scale study dataset and associated files
2015Co-Authors: Devan Ray DonaldsonAbstract:Scale development was used to collect and analyze the data.Scale development involves four primary steps (DeVellis, 2012; Spector, 1992): Step 1—Construct Definition, Step 2—Generating an Item Pool, Step 3—Designing the Scale, and Step 4—Full Administration and Item Analysis. Step 1 of scale development is to construct a definition. In this study, it involved a review of the literature to identify the scope of trustworthiness for the purpose of empirical investigation. Step 1 also involved focus groups to understand how members of a designated community (i.e., genealogists) talk about trustworthiness. The findings from the focus groups are reported elsewhere (Donaldson & Conway, 2015). Step 2 of scale development is to generate an item pool. It involved identifying items for measuring trustworthiness from multiple sources, including the literature, subject matter experts, and focus groups data (Donaldson & Conway, 2015). Step 3 of scale development is to design the scale. It involved transforming the item pool resulting from Step 2 into a web survey for pretesting and refinement. Step 4 of scale development is the full administration of the survey and subsequent item analysis. It involved administering the final item pool comprising items gathered from earlier steps of scale development to a large sample of designated community members for their evaluation. Each item described a circumstance one might encounter while using a digitized Archival Document. Participants answered whether the circumstance described by each item would cause them to perceive a digitized Archival Document as either untrustworthy or trustworthy on a 7‐point scale: very untrustworthy, untrustworthy, slightly untrustworthy, neither untrustworthy nor trustworthy, slightly trustworthy, trustworthy, or very trustworthy. An eighth option, “Not Applicable,” was included for participants to choose if the circumstance an item described was not relevant to their experience of using digitized Archival Documents. Step 4 also involved analyzing designated community members’ responses via factor analysis to identify the items that were most essential for measuring the trustworthiness of preserved information (in this case, digitized genealogical records). Two types of analysis were performed: item analysis and exploratory factor analysis. Item analysis involved analysis of item variances, item‐total correlations, item means, and item standard deviations (DeVellis, 2012). To assess item variances, the range of responses (i.e., items’ minimums and maximums) for each item were inspected. To assess item-total correlations, each item was examined to determine the extent to which it correlated with the collection of remaining items. Items’ means and standard deviations were examined to ensure that, for each item, the means were near the midpoint of the 7-point scale on which participants rated the items while also ensuring that there was variation involved in attaining the means. Standard deviations above zero indicated that not everyone provided the same ratings for each item to arrive at a mean, but instead, different participants provided different ratings of each item to arrive at a mean. After performing item analysis, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted using SPSS Statistics 22.0, a software package for statistical analysis, to establish the factor structure of the trustworthiness items (Kline, 2013). EFA was used as a tool to help identify the most critical items for measurement of trustworthiness. “Important” trustworthiness items were operationalized as items with high factor loadings on factors with large eigenvalues. To assign items to factors, factor loadings equal to or higher than .32 were considered (Tabachnick & Fidell, 2001). Two tests were performed to assess the appropriateness of the data that were collected during this study for EFA: the Kaiser‐Meyer‐Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy (Kaiser, 1970; Kaiser & Rice, 1974) and Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity (Bartlett, 1954). Afterwards, EFA was conducted using principal axis factoring with oblique rotation; oblique rotation allows factors to correlate (Kline, 2013). Since the items were all trustworthiness items, there was no reason to think that any factors underlying the items would not be correlated, hence the decision to employ oblique rotation. Results of Cattell’s (1966) scree test were used to determine the number of factors to retain.
G J Van Bussel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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building the record keeping system rks process improvement triggered by management of Archival Documents
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2001Co-Authors: G J Van Bussel, G J Van Der Pijl, F Ector, P RibersAbstract:The paper results from a research project at Tilburg University in which organization, information and Archival studies have been integrated. We argue that the archivistic concept of the record keeping system (RKS) can be used as an instrument for improving the performance of the Document flow in a business process, and as a result of the process. Archival Documents contain information related to the result of an activity, to the circumstances of their creation and to organization and business processes. The elements of a RKS are context, quality, appraisal, warehousing and logistics. The translation of our conceptual model is the process-specific Archival Document-file, a meta-file that operates as an engine managing Document management. The approach was tested in a case study. It became clear that our approach leads to considerable improvements in the flow of Documents and thus in the primary processes supported by these Documents.
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the Document revolution work or Document flow Archival Documents as triggers for process improvement
European Conference on Information Systems, 1999Co-Authors: G J Van Bussel, G J Van Der Pijl, F Ector, P M A RibbersAbstract:This paper is resulting from a research project at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, in which the fields of organization, information and Archival studies have been integrated. We argue that the archivistic concept of the record keeping system, in information-intensive organizations, can be used as an instrument for improving the performance of the Document-flow in a business process, and, as a result, on the process. Archival Documents must not only contain the information related to the result of an activity, but also information both on the circumstances of their creation and organization and business processes. We think this can be realized by using a record keeping system, with as essential elements: context, quality, appraisal, warehousing and logistics. The instrument we have developed as a translation of the conceptual model is the process-specific Archival Document-file, a meta-file that, after translation, operates as an engine managing Document management. The approach that was developed was tested in a case-study in the city of Veldhoven. From the case-study, it became clear that our approach leads to considerable improvements in the flow of Documents and thus in the primary processes supported by these Documents.
Petraitytė-briedienė Asta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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History of one Document from the US National Archives: Memorandum of Conversation of the US Department of State
'Vilnius University Press', 2020Co-Authors: Petraitytė-briedienė AstaAbstract:The article briefly presents the US National Archives, where a number of Documents important for the history of the Lithuanian diplomacy, as well as a Document significant for the history of the Lithuanian diaspora and its political organizations, are preserved. One of them is Memorandum of Conversation dated 2 February 1949 and prepared by John D. Hickerson, an official of the US Department of State. It extensively describes his meeting and conversations with members of the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania, the Prelate Mykolas Krupavičius and Vaclovas Sidzikauskas, who for the first time visited the US and were accompanied to the meeting by the then Lithuanian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Povilas Žadeikis. Memorandum of Conversation is introduced into scientific circulation through methods of Archival Document monitoring and case analysis, as well as additional tools (such as periodicals and memoirs, Archival Documents) and based on the principles of Document publication. The Document published for the first time, as a primary source, supplements the data of Lithuanian historiography, gives a broader content to the known fact, reinforces the scientific research base on the history of Lithuanian diplomacy, the history of the Lithuanian diaspora’s political organizations and separately – the history of Lithuanian-the US bilateral diplomatic relations
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History of one Document from the US national archives: Memorandum of Conversation of the US department of state
'Vilnius University Press', 2020Co-Authors: Petraitytė-briedienė AstaAbstract:Straipsnyje trumpai pristatomas JAV nacionalinis archyvas, kuriame yra saugomas ne vienas Lietuvos diplomatijos istorijai, taip pat Lietuvos išeivijos ir jos politinių organizacijų istorijai svarbus dokumentas. Vienas jų yra 1949 m. vasario 2 d. JAV Valstybės departamento pareigūno Johno D. Hickersono parengtas Memorandum of Conversation. Jame plačiai aprašomas šio pareigūno susitikimas ir pokalbis su pirmą kartą į JAV atvykusiais Vyriausiojo Lietuvos išlaisvinimo komiteto nariais, prelatu Mykolu Krupavičiumi ir Vaclovu Sidzikausku, kuriuos į susitikimą lydėjo tuometinis Lietuvos nepaprastasis pasiuntinys ir įgaliotasis ministras Povilas Žadeikis. Pasitelkus archyvinio dokumento stebėjimo ir atskiro atvejo analizės metodus, taip pat papildomus įrankius (kaip periodiniai šaltiniai ir memuaristika, archyviniai dokumentai) bei remiantis dokumento publikavimo principais, Memorandum of Conversation yra įvedamas į mokslinę apyvartą. Pirmą kartą skelbiamas dokumentas, kaip pirminis šaltinis, papildo lietuviškos istoriografijos duomenis, suteikia žinomam faktui platesnį turinį, sutvirtina mokslinių tyrimų šaltinių bazę Lietuvos diplomatijos istorijos, Lietuvos išeivijos politinių organizacijų istorijos bei atskirai Lietuvos ir JAV dvišalių diplomatinių santykių istorijos temaThe article briefly presents the US National Archives, where a number of Documents important for the history of the Lithuanian diplomacy, as well as a Document significant for the history of the Lithuanian diaspora and its political organizations, are preserved. One of them is Memorandum of Conversation dated 2 February 1949 and prepared by John D. Hickerson, an official of the US Department of State. It extensively describes his meeting and conversations with members of the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania, the Prelate Mykolas Krupavičius and Vaclovas Sidzikauskas, who for the first time visited the US and were accompanied to the meeting by the then Lithuanian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Povilas Žadeikis. Memorandum of Conversation is introduced into scientific circulation through methods of Archival Document monitoring and case analysis, as well as additional tools (such as periodicals and memoirs, Archival Documents) and based on the principles of Document publication. The Document published for the first time, as a primary source, supplements the data of Lithuanian historiography, gives a broader content to the known fact, reinforces the scientific research base on the history of Lithuanian diplomacy, the history of the Lithuanian diaspora’s political organizations and separately – the history of Lithuanian-the US bilateral diplomatic relationsLietuvių išeivijos institutasVytauto Didžiojo universiteta
P M A Ribbers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Document revolution work or Document flow Archival Documents as triggers for process improvement
European Conference on Information Systems, 1999Co-Authors: G J Van Bussel, G J Van Der Pijl, F Ector, P M A RibbersAbstract:This paper is resulting from a research project at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, in which the fields of organization, information and Archival studies have been integrated. We argue that the archivistic concept of the record keeping system, in information-intensive organizations, can be used as an instrument for improving the performance of the Document-flow in a business process, and, as a result, on the process. Archival Documents must not only contain the information related to the result of an activity, but also information both on the circumstances of their creation and organization and business processes. We think this can be realized by using a record keeping system, with as essential elements: context, quality, appraisal, warehousing and logistics. The instrument we have developed as a translation of the conceptual model is the process-specific Archival Document-file, a meta-file that, after translation, operates as an engine managing Document management. The approach that was developed was tested in a case-study in the city of Veldhoven. From the case-study, it became clear that our approach leads to considerable improvements in the flow of Documents and thus in the primary processes supported by these Documents.
G J Van Der Pijl - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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building the record keeping system rks process improvement triggered by management of Archival Documents
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2001Co-Authors: G J Van Bussel, G J Van Der Pijl, F Ector, P RibersAbstract:The paper results from a research project at Tilburg University in which organization, information and Archival studies have been integrated. We argue that the archivistic concept of the record keeping system (RKS) can be used as an instrument for improving the performance of the Document flow in a business process, and as a result of the process. Archival Documents contain information related to the result of an activity, to the circumstances of their creation and to organization and business processes. The elements of a RKS are context, quality, appraisal, warehousing and logistics. The translation of our conceptual model is the process-specific Archival Document-file, a meta-file that operates as an engine managing Document management. The approach was tested in a case study. It became clear that our approach leads to considerable improvements in the flow of Documents and thus in the primary processes supported by these Documents.
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the Document revolution work or Document flow Archival Documents as triggers for process improvement
European Conference on Information Systems, 1999Co-Authors: G J Van Bussel, G J Van Der Pijl, F Ector, P M A RibbersAbstract:This paper is resulting from a research project at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, in which the fields of organization, information and Archival studies have been integrated. We argue that the archivistic concept of the record keeping system, in information-intensive organizations, can be used as an instrument for improving the performance of the Document-flow in a business process, and, as a result, on the process. Archival Documents must not only contain the information related to the result of an activity, but also information both on the circumstances of their creation and organization and business processes. We think this can be realized by using a record keeping system, with as essential elements: context, quality, appraisal, warehousing and logistics. The instrument we have developed as a translation of the conceptual model is the process-specific Archival Document-file, a meta-file that, after translation, operates as an engine managing Document management. The approach that was developed was tested in a case-study in the city of Veldhoven. From the case-study, it became clear that our approach leads to considerable improvements in the flow of Documents and thus in the primary processes supported by these Documents.