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Respect for Authority - Authority Control, Context Control, and Archival Description (Paperback)
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Respect for Authority - Authority Control, Context Control, and Archival Description (Paperback)
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Groundbreaking ideas in archival description and control Archival
authority control is an often ambiguous label that embraces a
potentially wide scope. In this active and quickly-evolving field,
new methods of clarification are essential for successful archive
management. The articles in Respect for Authority: Authority
Control, Context Control, and Archival Description offer an
innovative approach by marking and exploring a clear distinction
between conventional archival authority files and the broader
concept of context control. Intended to not only answer important
questions but raise worthy new ones as well, Respect for Authority:
Authority Control, Context Control, and Archival Description
reveals striking new perspectives in managing archival description
more effectively. The engaging essays in this collection tackle key
issues of archive authority control and offer sound proposals for
advancing a new course. Comprehensive in its approach, this text
takes an in-depth look at both the International Standard for
Archival Authority Records (ISAAR) and the American standard,
Describing Archives: a Content Standard (DACS) and considers the
place of authority control in these two standards for archival
description. In addition, contributors offer practical answers to
the thorny issue of identifying the boundaries of a
records-creating entity and present criteria for determining when a
new entity is established. International in scope, this book
presents groundbreaking case studies by archive professionals from
Canada, the United States, Italy, and Australia that document the
successes of different institutional applications that describe the
records-creator first and then link this description to that of the
records themselves. Respect for Authority: Authority Control,
Context Control, and Archival Description also includes expert
discussions of: the role of standards the nature of archives and
their relationships with their creators resources necessary to
fully document contextualized content the power of provenance
possibilities available through a trinity of descriptive
entitiesrecords, agents, and functions the potential of provenance
rediscovery in American repositories postmodern archive theory,
multiple provenance, and the reconceptualization of archive context
using ISAAR to document records-creating environments challenges
inherent in implementing series-based systems of arrangement and
description the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
and the Archival Resource Catalog (ARC) digitizing and publishing
registers and the development of the Online Heritage Resource
Manager (OHRM) and many more! Ideal for archive professionals,
manuscript librarians, students, and researchers of archival
administration, Respect for Authority: Authority Control, Context
Control, and Archival Description not only resolves important
questions revealed by these new trends but opens new discussions of
a major shift in descriptive practice.
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