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Developing Descriptive Interoperability A Call to Action

Developing Descriptive Interoperability A Call to Action. The History Quiz. When was the NISTF set up in the USA?. Answer: 1977. What format resulted from their work?. Answer: USMARC AMC. 3. When was the first edition of MAD published?. Answer: 1986. The History Quiz (2).

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Developing Descriptive Interoperability A Call to Action

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  1. Developing Descriptive InteroperabilityA Call to Action

  2. The History Quiz • When was the NISTF set up in the USA? Answer: 1977 What format resulted from their work? Answer: USMARC AMC 3. When was the first edition of MAD published? Answer: 1986

  3. The History Quiz (2) • In which city was the 1988 Invitational Meeting of Experts on Descriptive Standards held? Answer: Ottawa, Canada In what year was the first edition of ISAD(G) published? Answer: 1994 6. What was the main product of the American WGSAD? Answer: Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook published in 1994

  4. The History Quiz (3) What was the DTD from which EAD eventually evolved called? • When was EAD Version 1.0 released? Answer: FINDAID DTD Answer: 1998 What is ISO 23081 about? Answer: Information and documentation – Records Management processes – Metadata for Records

  5. The History Quiz 7-9 – Stupendous Standard Supremo 4-6 – Solid Standard Star 0-3 – Standards aren’t my thing, I’m a free spirit

  6. Open versus Closed “once one begins to consider standards for description, and even more, the standards needed to communicate information beyond one’s own institutional walls, other people’s and other professions’ standards necessarily come into play” Lawrence Dowler, “Introduction” American Archivist 52.4 (1989): 432-435

  7. Open versus Closed an attempt “to construct a library-compatible standard for archival description” Michael Cook, “Description Standards: The Struggle Towards the Light” Archivaria 34 (1992):50-57

  8. Information Exchange versus Archival Description Those involved moved towards an attempt “to establish the precondition for archival information exchange” They did not want to get “led into the depths of the descriptive standards problem” Richard Lytle, “An Analysis of the Work of the National Information Systems Task Force” American Archivist 47.4 (1984): 357-365.

  9. Information Exchange versus Archival Description: ISAD(G) those developing ISAD(G) were “interested in exchanging data about their holdings” “ISAD(G) does not specifically discuss the authenticity of records” Wendy Duff, “Evaluating Metadata on a Metalevel,” Archival Science 1 (2001): 285-294.

  10. A call to action • we should think carefully about the distinction between information exchange and archival description • we should not assume that creating and exchanging multi-level description means that we have dealt with the question of preserving meaning and context in respect of records • we should develop a more holistic and expansive concept of interoperability

  11. Descriptive Interoperability PREMIS MoReq2010 XML Schema Descriptive Interoperability MODS EAD Dublin Core Information Exchange

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