Grounding archival description in the functional requirements for evidence

Archivaria

Volumn 41, Issue , 1996, Pages 275-303

  Bearman, David ^a   Duff, Wendy ^b  

^a Archives and Museum Informatics   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 79959309854     PISSN: 03186954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

References (11)

1. "Towards National Information Systems for Archives and Manuscripts Repositories: 1. Alternative Models, " NISTF Report (Washington, 1981) 41 p., reprinted in Towards National lnformation Systems for Archives and Manuscripts Repositories: The NISTF Papers (Chicago, 1987).
2. See "Towards National lnformation Systems for Archives and Manuscripts Repositories: Opportunities and Requirements, " NISTF Report (Washington, 1982) 41 p., reprinted in Towards National Information Systems for Archives and Manuscripts Repositories: The NISTF Papers (Chicago, 1987).
3. See David Bearman and Richard Lytle, "The Power of the Principle of Provenance, " Arclzivaria 21 (1985). pp. 14-27.
4. Archival Methods, Archival and Museum Informatics Technical Reports 9 (Pittsburgh, 1989).
5. David Bearman, "Record-Keeping Systems, " Archivaria36 (Autumn 1993), pp. 16-36.
6. For information on the project's products and reports see the Project web site: http:www2.lis.pitt/-nhprc.
7. In the Spring 1995 issue of Archivaria, Heather MacNeil and David Wallace debated the role of metadata and archival description. MacNeil argued that metadata will never replace archival description and she warned archivists against shaping metadata to meet archival needs. See David Wallace, "Managing the Present: Metadataas Archival Description, "Archivaria 39 (Spring 1995), pp. 11-21.
8. Heather MacNeil, "Metadata Strategies and Archival Description: Comparing Apples to Oranges, " Archivaria 39 (Spring 1995). pp. 22-32.
9. In developing ISAD, the ICA Adhoc Commission on Descriptive Standards started by reviewing RAD, Steven L. Hensen, Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts: A Cataloging Manual for Archival Repositories and Historical Societies (Chicago, 1989), and Michael Cook and Margaret Procter, A Manual of Archival Description (Aldershot, 1989).
10. The record is, in most cases, equivalent to the file because it contains all of the data related to an individual transaction.
11. These can be found on the Internet at: http://www.lis.pitt.edu/-nhprc