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Event-based archival information organization

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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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Notes

  1. The authority records can be found through the Library of Congress Authorities website. http://authorities.loc.gov/. Accessed 25 May 2014.

  2. International Chamber of Commerce. Live piracy and armed robbery report: http://www.icc-ccs.org/piracy-reporting-centre/live-piracy-report/details/133/567. Accessed 25 May 2014.

  3. LODE: an ontology for Linking Open Description of Events: http://linkedevents.org/ontology/. Accessed 25 May 2014.

  4. The finding aid is from the Online Archive of California. Available at: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4s200680/dsc/#dsc-1.8.7. Accessed 25 May 2014.

  5. SPIRT Recordkeeping Metadata Project. Conceptual and relationship models: records in business and socio-legal contexts. http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/research/groups/rcrg/projects/spirt/deliverables/conrelmod.html. Accessed 25 May 2014.

  6. Some of these terms, such as <transfer of custody> <acquisition>, are consistent with the terms in the CIDOC-CRM model. This increases the interoperability with the CRM model.

  7. For illustration purposes, the content and format of this structured description was slightly modified based on the originals.

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Niu, J. Event-based archival information organization. Arch Sci 15, 315–328 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-014-9222-4

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