Closing the loop: Assisting archival appraisal and information retrieval in one sweep

Abstract

In this article, we examine the similarities between the concept of appraisal, a process that takes place within the archives, and the concept of relevance judgement, a process fundamental to information retrieval systems. More specifically, we revisit appraisal/selection criteria proposed as a result of archival and digital curation communities, and, compare them to relevance criteria as discussed within information retrieval's literature based discovery. We illustrate how closely these criteria relate to each other and discuss how understanding the relationships between the these disciplines could form a basis for proposing automated appraisal and selection for archival processes and enabling complex queries within information retrieval.

An Approach to Document Fingerprinting

“…In 2013, Kim and Ross ( [9]), highlighted the potential of bringing together a variety of language processing approaches in a parallel processing workflow as a means of assessing selection and appraisal criteria 3 such as those suggested by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). The discussion, however, was limited to a very high level consideration of potential with little exploration as to how this might be done and how parallel processing of multiple information classes could benefit selection and appraisal.…”