Discovering Common Missions or Diverging Goals: The State of Archival Descriptive Standards in Canada and the United States (original) (raw)
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1999
Les premiers chapitres des RDDA ont été publiés il y a seulement neuf ans ; mais selon plusieurs observateurs, la plupart des services d'archives canadiens les ont acceptées et les utilisent. Cet article traite d'une enquête qui a porté sur l'utilisation des RDDA au Canada. Il aborde l'état actuel de l'implantation des RDDA en examinant les niveaux d'utilisation des Règles au sein des systèmes descriptifs des dépôts d'archives, dans quelle mesure on utilise des fichiers d'autorité et des structures de données normalisées et quels sont les types de supports documentaires créés. L'article pose la question de qui prépare les descriptions, la formation que ces personnes ont reçue et les obstacles freinant l'adoption des RDDA. Les résultats montrent qu'il y a un rapport étroit entre l'utilisation des Règles, les descriptions réalisées aux plus hauts niveaux (par exemple celui du fonds) et l'implication de professionnels dans le travail de description. L'article propose en conclusion des pistes pour d'autres recherches.
Towards a New Level in Archival Description ?
2016
This paper focuses on large currents of thought about archival profession that caused the International Council on Archives (ICA) to move towards an improvement of the four descriptive standards. The author reviews the avatars of provenance, original order and fonds based approaches, indicating extensively various positions from professional literature. The second part offers some insights to the new proposed ICA conceptual model for archival description, called Records in Contexts.
Will metadata replace archival description? A commentary
Archivaria, 1995
Cet article compare et oppose les principaux concepts de mCta-information et de description archivistique Ccrits par Heather MacNeil et David Wallace. I1 met en lumikre les similitudes des deux articles et examine leurs divergences. L'article conclut en soutenant que les archivistes manquent prksentement de connaissances suffisantes pour repondre aux questions fondamentales concernant le r6le de la mCta-information et de la description archivistique formelle. L'article souligne la nCcessitC d'un programme de recherches qui Ctudierait les besoins de la clientkle des archives et identifierait les procCdCs qui protkgeraient I'intCgritC et I'impartialitC des documents et assurerait la saisie de l'information contextuelle pertinente.
College & Research Libraries, 2021
While the act of defining typically underscores features that establish limits and exclusivity, this book honoring Richard J. Cox, a celebrated scholar, educator, mentor, and contributor to the archival discipline in the United States, does the opposite. Instead, this volume offers expanded and more inclusive meanings and values to archival scholarship, praxis, and pedagogy through the insightful essays written by Cox’s former students and colleagues. The essays, according to Bastian and Yakel, “seek to carry his vision of an archival discipline and the transformational power of scholarship forward. At the same time, push this vision into new, related directions” (ix). Indeed, this book pushes beyond the limits of archiving traditions that for many years have defined the discipline and how archivists understand why they do what they do.
An introduction to “Records in Contexts”: an archival description draft standard
Comma, 2018
Records-in-Contexts (RiC) is a new standard for description which will reconcile and build on the four existing ICA description standards, developing a broader understanding of basic archival principles in which it remains grounded. Thus, for example, the Principle of Provenance can be interpreted in different ways, and does not always fully reflect the social and material complexity of records' origin. Similarly, application of the principle of Original Order may result in the presentation of an order as it existed at only one point only in time. RiC attempts to develop a more expansive understanding of provenance by recognizing that records and the people who create, manage, and use them do not exist in isolation but in complex layers of interrelated, interdependent contexts. Representing this complexity is both helped by, and is informed by, developments in information and communication technologies (including developments within the parallel recordkeeping and cultural heritage communities) which offer the opportunity for separating components, re-combining and interrelating them, opening domain borders and connecting data between disparate systems. Two aspects of RiC are in development: the Conceptual Model (RiC-CM) which provides a generalized view of archival description, through identification of records-related entities (People-/Record-/Businessrelated), their properties and the relations between them; and the Ontology (RiC-O). RiC-O, which is in an early stage of development, will enable a technical representation of RiC-compliant archival metadata. As a formal Web Ontology Language (OWL), and based on the four principles of usefulness, flexibility, functionality and extensibility, it will enable archival description to become fully visible within a linked open online world.
Archives in Ontario: a report on study visits under Canadian Studies Fellowship
Library Hi Tech News, 2011
The author visited Canada during March 2010 to study Canadian Archival system especially records management in archives in Ontario province; the driving rationale for the study was the realization that there existed very less or no archives and record management program in India. This study intends to report different types of archives and record management (ARM) programs in Canada, with special reference to e-records management viz. automation status, creation of virtual exhibits, preservation of digital images, metadata standard for e-records etc. The prime objectives were to overview the current state of modern record keeping in the Government of Canada and identify the core competencies required to build effective record keeping infrastructures in the electronic work environment that has emerged in most government institutions.