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Diplomatics gives importance to the broad context of creation by emphasizing the significance of the juridical system (that is, the social body plus the system of rules which constitute the context of the records), the persons creating the records, and th |
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As many observers have pointed out, the term 'digital library' means different things to different people. For librarians, the word 'library' conjures up an institution that manages one or more collections. For computer scientists, the institutional asp |
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Something (e.g., an image, an audio recording, a text document) that has been digitally encoded and integrated with metadata to support discovery, use, and storage of those objects. ¶ It should be noted that there is an important distinction between |
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Clifford Lynch, director of the Coalition for Networked Information, describes experiential digital objects as objects whose essence goes beyond the bits that constitute the object to incorporate the behavior of the rendering system, or at least the inter |
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Copyright law delineates a bundle of exclusive rights that could conceivably be expressed in a DRM system. The extent of these rights, however, is limited by several exceptions, and it is harder to program in exceptions. One such exception is the fair us |
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A digital code that can be attached to an electronically transmitted message that uniquely identifies the sender. Like a written signature, the purpose of a digital signature is to guarantee that the individual sending the message really is who he or she |
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Descriptive metadata refers to information that supports discovery and identification of a resource (the who, what, when and where of a resource). It describes the content of the resource, associates various access points, and describes how the resource i |
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Morris and his successor, Nathaniel Holmes Morison, carefully compiled massive desiderata – or wish lists – of books for the library. Publishing these lists in bound form, they sent them out to booksellers, bibliophiles, and librarians all over America an |
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A certificate document in the form of a digital data object (a data object used by a computer) to which is appended a computed digital signature value that depends on the data object. ¶ [Deprecated] ISDs SHOULD NOT use this term to refer to a signed |
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An electronic data object that represents information originally written in a non-electronic, non-magnetic medium (usually ink on paper) or is an analogue of a document of that type. |
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Digital entities are 'images of reality,' made of: data, the bit (zeros and ones) put on a storage system; information, the semantics used to assign semantic meaning to the data; knowledge, the structural relationships described by a data model. ¶ E |
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Introduction for Form of Names. ¶ Part III of this standard provides information about creating standardized forms for the names of persons, families, or corporate bodies associated with archival materials as the creators, custodians, or subjects of |
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In the 1980s and early 1990s, the Society of American Archivists' Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts and the Canadian Rules for Archival Description (RAD) codified archival practice and established the elements needed to represent a fonds or colle |
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In the 1930s in Europe, description began to be seen as a means for making the user independent of the archivists specialized knowledge, and to be aimed primarily at compiling 'instruments of research' for the user, not the archivist. Moreover, the descr |
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Metadata systems capture and communicate information about transactions and the context in which they occur within an electronic record system. . . . Description, on the other hand, captures and communicates knowledge about the broad administrative and do |
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[Yahoo!] introduced its Content Acquisition Program designed to index the billions of documents contained in public databases but that are commonly inaccessible to search engines, or what's called the invisible or deep Web. |
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Deletion is the process whereby data is removed from active files and other data storage structures on computers and rendered inaccessible except using special data recovery tools designed to recover deleted data. Deletion occurs in several levels on mode |
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A work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be rec |
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Introduction to Describing Archival Materials. ¶ Part I of this standard contains rules to ensure the creation of consistent, appropriate, and self-explanatory descriptions of archival material. The rules may be used for describing archival and manus |
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Introduction to Describing Creators. ¶ It is insufficient for the archivist simply to include the name of the creator in the title of the description of the materials. Additional information is required regarding the persons, families, and corporate |
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Bill Inmon, the recognized father of the data warehousing concept, defines a data warehouse as a subject-orientated, integrated, time variant, non-volatile collection of data in support of management's decision-making process. Another data warehousing pio |
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Two books were required: a book of original entry called a 'day book' in which transactions were entered in chronological order, and a 'ledger' in which transactions were entered under individual accounts as debits ('Dr.') and credits ('Cr.'). The terms |
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Deaccessioning would ideally be a regular feature of collections management, a routine procedure that allows institutions to deal with out-of-scope materials that have been determined to be unworthy of continued retention through reappraisal. |
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A shortcoming of the original DSS systems was that they were developed by different business units, resulting in disagreement between users on data definitions. Thus, no organisational view on data existed. These different data definitions also lead to i |
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Statements that . . . allow for deaccessioning should be included in the deed of gift. As [Gerald] Ham notes, 'donor agreements cannot become the dead hand of the past; they must contain some option for reappraisal and deaccessioning.' |
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