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McLuhan-Myers, Madeleine.

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The Archival Web: Contextual Authority Files and the Representation of Institutional Textual Documents in Online Description.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Archival Web: Contextual Authority Files and the Representation of Institutional Textual Documents in Online Description./
Author:	McLuhan-Myers, Madeleine.
Description:	165 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 52-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International52-05(E).
Subject:	Library science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MS22482
ISBN:	9780499224828

The Archival Web: Contextual Authority Files and the Representation of Institutional Textual Documents in Online Description.
McLuhan-Myers, Madeleine.

The Archival Web: Contextual Authority Files and the Representation of Institutional Textual Documents in Online Description. - 165 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 52-05.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba (Canada), 2012.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This thesis considers a long overlooked issue in archival description---the problem of the representation of individual institutional textual records in archival research tools. While document studies in academic archival journals point to the value of focussed consideration of various types of such individual records, archives do not have the resources to apply such focus in archival research tools to every item in their holdings, even though individual institutional textual archival records convey massive amounts of information that are the ultimate goal many researchers seek, whether for genealogical, historical, biographical or other work. For much of the last century, archivists have rightly emphasized description of groups of records, because this provides valuable insight into the larger context in which single documents exist and the immense quantities involved left little other choice. Developments in recent decades, however, suggest that consideration of the individual document should be re-visited. Can consideration of individual records (and those seeking them) be better incorporated into descriptive systems? Where would one begin? The individual document is a key missing element in formal archival descriptive systems. This thesis focuses on how formal descriptive systems might be enhanced to allow closer consideration of individual institutional textual records. The chapters review the history of description and approaches to individual items, explore potential benefits to researchers who seek information from particular documents---the written will, for example---and explore tools and initiatives created and envisioned in response to such issues, such as contextual authority files. The aim is to enable modern descriptive systems to provide a richer source of knowledge for users of archives.

ISBN: 9780499224828Subjects--Topical Terms:

539284
Library science.

The Archival Web: Contextual Authority Files and the Representation of Institutional Textual Documents in Online Description.
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