Harnessing the power of provenance in archival description: An Australian perspective on the development of the second edition of ISAAR(CPF)

Journal of Archival Organization

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 15-31

  Cunningham, Adrian ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Archival description; Australia; Families); Functions; International Council on Archives; International Standard Archival Authority Record (Corporate Bodies; ISAAR(CPF); Persons; Provenance; Series system; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049159630     PISSN: 15332748     EISSN: 15332756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J201v05n01_02     Document Type: Article

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10. See also T. Cook, "What is Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift," Archivaria 43 (Spring 1997): 38-39.
11. Now available as Margaret Proctor and Michael Cook, Manual of Archival Description, third edition [MAD3], (Gower, 2000).
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17. Stefano Vitali, "Authority Control of Creators and the Second Edition of ISAAR(CPF), International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families" in Arlene G Taylor and Barbara B Tillett, eds., Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information: Definition and International Experience (Binghamton, NY: Haworth, 2004): 185-200.
18. The Toronto Tenets can be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/eac/ torontotenets.htm.
19. See Beta version of EAC at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/eac/ Furtherinformation can be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/eac/ and in Daniel Pitti, "Creator Description: Encoded Archival Context" in Taylor and Tillett (eds), Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information: 201-226.
20. ISAAR(CPF) is available on the ICA Web site in various languages at: http://www.ica.org/biblio.php?pdocid=144.
21. International Council on Archives, ISAAR(CPF): 10.
22. Chris Hurley, "What, if Anything, is a Function?" Archives and Manuscripts 21. no. 2 (November 1993): 208-220
23. Chris Hurley, "Ambient Functions: Abandoned Children to Zoos," Archivaria 40 (Fall 1995): 21-39.
24. Source for Figure 1: "Conceptual and Relationship Models: Records in Business and Socio-legal Contexts," a deliverable from the 1998-1999 Australian Research Council funded Monash University research project, called "Recordkeeping Metadata Standards for Managing and Accessing Information Resources in Networked Environments over time for Government. Commerce, Social and Cultural Purposes," Chief Investigators Sue McKemmish, Ann Pedersen, and Steve Stuckey. Available at http://www.sims.monash.edu.au/research/rcrg/research/spirt/deliver/ conrelmod.html; model developed by Sue McKemmish, Glenda Acland, Kate Cumming, Barbara Reed, and Nigel Ward. The Australian RKMS was a deliverable from the 1998-1999 Australian Research Council funded Monash University research project, called "Recordkeeping Metadata Standards for Managing and Accessing Information Resources in Networked Environments over time for Government. Commerce, Social and Cultural Purposes," Chief Investigators Sue McKemmish, Ann Pedersen, and Steve Stuckey. Versions of both models were published in the following article: Sue McKermilish, Glenda Acland, Nigel Ward, and Barbara Reed, "Describing Records in Context in the Continuum: The Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Schema," Archivaria 48 (Fall 1999): 3-43.
25. Lesley Richmond, "The Future: EAD, archival authority information and ISAAR (CPF)," available at http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/projects/ead/papers/eadauth.html.
26. For example, Linking and Exploring Authority Files (LEAF) project, available at http://www.crxnet.com/leaf/.
27. See http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/bsparcshome.htm.
28. See http://www.womenaustralia.info/browse.htm.
29. See http://www.archivists.org.au/busrec/.