ARCHIVES 2013: SESSION 701 - It's All About the Items:...

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SESSION 701 - It's All About the Items: Digital Objects and Aggregations in Archival Description and Access

Archival content standards provide clear guidance to archives for the arrangement and description of provenance-based aggregations of archival records. These standards, however, fail to provide the level of granularity and technical specificity required for the description, management, and use of individual digital items. The presenters consider theoretical challenges and practical solutions to implementing item-level description, management, and access under Describing Archives: A Content Standard, the Canadian Rules for Archival Description, and according to social media data management principles.

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Speakers

Greg Bak

Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba

Bill Landis

Head of Public Services, Yale University, Manuscripts & Archives

BA in History, University of Santa Cruz, MILS, University of Michigan. Many publications related to public services, description, professional standards, and the use of primary sources in teaching. Have held positions in technical and public services at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and University of California, Irvine in addition to Yale, worked at the California Digital Library, and served as the first Production Coordinator for... Read More →