Archives in the digital age : standards, policies and tools / Lina Bountouri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bountouri, Lina, author.

Series:

Chandos information professional series.

Chandos information professional series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital libraries.

Web archives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 95 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Massachusetts : Elsevier, [2017]

Summary:

Discusses semantic web technologies and their increased usage in distributing archival material. The book is a useful manual for archivists and information specialists working in cultural heritage institutions, including archives, libraries, and museums, providing detailed analyses of how metadata and standards are used to manage archival material, and how this material is disseminated through the web using the Internet, the semantic web, and social media technologies. Following an introduction from the author, the book is divided into five sections that explore archival description, digitization, the preservation of archives, the promotion of archival material through social media, and current trends in archival science.-- Provided by Publisher.

Contents:

Chapter one. Archival description. Archival description standards

General International Standard Archival Description

International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families

International Standard for Describing Functions

International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings

Archival description metadata

Encoded Archival Description

Encoded archival context-corporate bodies, persons, and families

Encoding functions and archival institutions

Archival content description standards and rules

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (US)

Rules for Archival Description (Canada)

Archival content description standards and rules in other countries

Knowledge Organization Systems used in archival description.

Chapter two. Archival management software. Choosing the right type of information system

Archival description authoring tools

Archival management systems

Open source systems

Commercial systems.

Chapter three. Digitization. Digitization: An obligation of archival institutions

What is digitization and why digitize?

Digitization policies

Metadata schemas for digital objects

Visual Resources Association Core

Metadata Object Description Schema

Europeana Data Model

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

Dublin Core.

Chapter four. Digital preservation. Defining the digital preservation issue

Reasons for taking action and faced challenges

Digital preservation plan

Digital preservation strategies

Migration

Emulation

Proactive digital preservation

Conceptual models and metadata

OAIS

PREMIS

The PROV Ontology

Open Provenance Model

Digital preservation systems.

Chapter five. Promoting archival material in the Social Web. Defining Social Media

Facebook

Twitter

Wiki

YouTube

Social media in archives: quantitative and qualitative use

Social media policies

Big impact?

Chapter six. Archival integration and dissemination: The trends. Semantic Interoperability for the archival description

Crosswalks

Ontology-based integration

Conceptual models

Archival description and Linked Data. Chapter seven. Archival information sources: A survival's kit;

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 13, 2017).

ISBN:

9781780634586

1780634587

OCLC:

1013532911