Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records

Duranti, Luciana; Eastwood, Terence M; MacNeil, Heather

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9892-7

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“…Records, which are the preoccupation of archival theory and practice, are classically and formally understood as the by-products, essence, or other forms of documentation of actions or acts that are evaluated, valued and employed according to legal, administrative and historical constructions of evidence (i.e., they are probative, dispositive, narrative or supporting with regard to an action or act) (Duranti, Eastwood and MacNeil 2002). On the other hand, the examples discussed here would suggest that imagined records are created through and to provide evidence of affective reactions to such actions and acts as well as to the absence of desired documentation about them.…”

Section: Locating or Uncovering Imagined Recordsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Records and their imaginaries: imagining the impossible, making possible the imagined

Gilliland

Caswell

2015

Arch Sci

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Abstract:This paper argues that the roles of individual and collective imaginings about the absent or unattainable archive and its contents should be explicitly acknowledged in both archival theory and practice. We propose two new terms: impossible archival imaginaries and imagined records. These concepts offer important affective counterbalances and sometimes resistance to dominant legal, bureaucratic, historical and forensic notions of evidence that so often fall short in explaining the capacity of records and archives to motivate, inspire, anger and traumatize. The paper begins with a reflection on how imagined records have surfaced in our own work related to human rights. It then reviews some of the ways in which the concept of the imaginary has been understood by scholarship in other fields. It considers how such interpretations might contribute epistemologically to the phenomenon of impossible archival imaginaries; and it provides examples of what we argue are impossible archival imaginaries at work. The paper moves on to examine specific cases and 'archival stories' involving imagined records and contemplate how they can function societally in ways similar to actual records because of the weight of their absence or because of their aspirational nature. Drawing upon threads that run through these cases, we propose definitions of both phenomena that not only augment the current descriptive, analytical and explicatory armaments of archival theory and practice but also open up the possibility of "returning" them (Ketelaar 2015a) as theoretical contributions to the fields from which the cases were drawn.

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Section: Locating or Uncovering Imagined Recordsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Records and their imaginaries: imagining the impossible, making possible the imagined

Gilliland

Caswell

2015

Arch Sci

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“…61 Isolated elementary records may perform poorly against the tests of reliability and usability suggested in standards such as ISO 15489, 62 but they are still within the boundary of the concept.…”

Section: P E R S I S T E N T R E P R E S E N T a T I O N S : A N I N mentioning

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Concepts of Record (2): Prototypes and Boundary Objects

Yeo¹

2008

The American Archivist

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118T h e A m e r i c a n A r c h i v i s t , V o l . 7 1 ( S p r i n g / S u m m e r 2 0 0 8 ) : 1 1 8 -1 4 3Web addresses cited in this article were accessed on 18 October 2007. Concepts of Record (2): Prototypes and Boundary Objects Geoffrey Yeo A b s t r a c tThis paper argues that, within the recordkeeping community, perceptions of records are subject to the "prototype" effects identified in recent psychological studies. Archivists and records managers perceive certain records as prototypical, while other records are more distant from their mental prototypes. Prototype effects apply both to item-level records and to record aggregations. Moreover, the boundaries of the record concept are fuzzy, and some records are "boundary objects" shared with other communities. The characterization of records as persistent representations embraces nonprototypical records as well as those more central to the concept.T his paper offers a further exploration of the concept of a record. It examines a pair of theories from the worlds of psychology and sociology and investigates their application to professional understanding of the record concept. It builds on the author's paper published in the Fall/Winter 2007 issue of American Archivist, 1 which discussed the challenges of defining records in terms of evidence or information; suggested that evidence, information, and memory are probably best seen as affordances that records provide to users; and offered an alternative characterization of records as persistent representations of activities.The psychological theory of prototypes attempts to provide an explanation of how concepts and categories are understood, and how membership of a category is assessed. It can be applied to almost any complex conceptual category and is used here to examine how writers and practitioners within the archives and records management community perceive different types of records. This paper also investigates the fuzzy boundaries of the record concept and explores the sociological notion of boundary objects. It demonstrates the

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“…It is important that this conceptual framework and methodology are in place before more metadata is created. As we have learned for electronic records systems, the conceptual models must be built into the metadata for the system to fulfill its purpose (Duranti, Eastwood, and MacNeil, 2002).…”

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Scheme Versioning in the Semantic Web

Tennis¹

2007

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

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SUMMARY. This paper describes a conceptual framework and methodology for managing scheme versioning for the Semantic Web. The first part of the paper introduces the concept of vocabulary encoding schemes, distinguished from metadata schemas, and discusses the characteristics of changes in schemes. The paper then presents a proposal to use a value record-similar to a term record in thesaurus management techniques-to manage scheme versioning challenges for the Semantic Web. The conclusion identifies future research directions. STRUCTURES IN THE SEMANTIC WEBThe Semantic Web is a collection of structures that work together (or interoperate). These structures constrain the range of possible interpretations in order to enable the transfer of meaning across the Web.[Haworth co-indexing entry note]:

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Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records

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Records and their imaginaries: imagining the impossible, making possible the imagined

Records and their imaginaries: imagining the impossible, making possible the imagined

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Scheme Versioning in the Semantic Web

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