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If it is fair to say that archivists are in the business of the past, we can also be said to have a legitimate concern about how others utilize and exploit the past. We appreciate the entertainment value of the past, but we care more about the educationa |
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Play is a fundamental human activity and an important way to learn. Cultural institutions do not take sufficient advantage of games to expand awareness and knowledge of collections through 'edutainment' packages and other strategies. |
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Here were the oral and literate side by side, but writing has some advantages. In written form, information achieved a stability and durability it would not have so long as it remained only in the mind or in spoken words. What is more, writing was in it |
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[Dublin Core Metadata Initiative] An organization dedicated to promoting the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and developing specialized metadata vocabularies for describing resources that enable more intelligent information discove |
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DSpace identifies two levels of digital preservation: bit preservation, and functional preservation. Bit preservation ensures that a file remains exactly the same over time – not a single bit is changed – while the physical media evolve around it. Functio |
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The term 'documentation strategy' was coined and initially defined at a session of the 1984 Society of American Archivists meeting that included papers presented by Helen W. Samuels, Larry J. Hackman, and Patricia Aronnson. The origins of the concept dat |
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A documentation strategy consists of four activities: 1. choosing and defining the topic to be documented, 2. selecting the advisors and establishing the site for the strategy, 3. structuring the inquiry and examining the form and substance of the availab |
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A modern, complex, information-rich society requires that archivists reexamine their role as selectors. The changing structure of modern institutions and the use of sophisticated technologies have altered the nature of records, and only a small portion of |
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A documentation plan is formulated in two stages, analysis and selection. The first stage consists of three tiers of analysis: 1. an institutional analysis, 2. a comparison of the institution with others of the same type, and 3. an analysis of the relati |
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To cover all formats the term documentation2 was preferred over the older use of bibliography not only to enlarge the idea of embracing archives as wells as libraries, but because documentation included everything, the physical and the metaphysical, where |
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['Documentary editing'] became current in the later 1970s to describe the process of creating reading texts intended to capture the substance and quality of the source texts so that the editorial texts would have substantially the same evidentiary value a |
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It is generally the past half century that would be recognized as the height of documentary editing as a systematic, professionalized, and effective pastime. Clearly, the late nineteenth century movement called scientific history, with its emphasis on the |
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Formal documentary editing contextualizes documents, which is to say, it orients or situates documents among other historically and intellectually related documents. |
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According to Boorstein [in The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America], the documentary is a 'pseudo-event,' and not simply a facsimile of the event itself. A pseudo-event is planned rather than spontaneous; functions primarily for the purpose of bei |
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DTD refers only to the definition of a document type – not the DOCTYPE declaration that associates a DTD with an XML document instance. |
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Documents did not immediately inspire trust. As with other innovations in technology, there was a long and complex period of evolution, particularly in the twelfth century in England, before methods of production were developed which proved acceptable bot |
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Any written document in the diplomatic sense contains information transmitted or described by means of rules of representation, which are themselves evidence of the intent to convey information: formulas, bureaucratic or literary style, specialized langua |
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The best approach to understanding what is a document is to examine what information is readily available to the computer user in the ordinary course of business. If the employee can view the information, it should be treated as the equivalent of a paper |
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In so-called 'smart' documents, such as those in relational databases and geographical information systems or in hypertext formats, data in various forms are combined electronically to produce a virtual 'document' on the monitor or at the printer. This ' |
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What are documents? They are, quite simply, talking things. They are bits of the material world – clay, stone, animal skin, plant fiber, sand – that we've imbued with the ability to speak. |
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Documents, individually and collectively, are all a form of narration, postmodernists assert, that go well beyond being mere evidence of transactions and facts. Documents are shaped to reinforce narrative consistency and conceptual harmony for the author |
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The Society of American Archivists is committed to integrating diversity concerns and perspectives into all aspects of its activities and into the fabric of the profession as a whole. SAA is also committed to the goal of a Society membership that reflect |
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Some records are created for legal purposes such as effecting an action (known as 'dispositive records') or proving that an act of action took place (known as 'probative records'), while other records, such as working papers and correspondence may merely |
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The core of the text is the disposition2, that is, the expression of the will or judgment of the author. Here, the fact or act is expressly enunciated, usually by means of a verb able to communicate the nature of the action and the function of the documen |
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Lost in a Disneyfied World: Archivists and Society in Late-Twentieth-Century America. ¶ Archivists understand the past as complex, multifaceted, and fractal. They know it conflicts with the present and offers both intellectually and spiritually enr |
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