Front Cover; Archives in the Digital Age; Copyright Page; Contents; About the author; Prologue; Introduction; 1 Archival description; 1.1 Archival description standards; 1.1.1 General International Standard Archival Description; 1.1.2 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families; 1.1.3 International Standard for Describing Functions; 1.1.4 International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings; 1.2 Archival description metadata; 1.2.1 Encoded Archival Description.

1.2.2 Encoded archival context-corporate bodies, persons, and families1.2.3 Encoding functions and archival institutions; 1.3 Archival content description standards and rules; 1.3.1 Describing Archives: A Content Standard (US); 1.3.2 Rules for Archival Description (Canada); 1.3.3 Archival content description standards and rules in other countries; 1.3.4 Knowledge Organization Systems used in archival description; 2 Archival management software; 2.1 Choosing the right type of information system; 2.2 Archival description authoring tools; 2.3 Archival management systems.

2.3.1 Open source systems2.3.2 Commercial systems; 3 Digitization; 3.1 Digitization: An obligation of archival institutions; 3.2 What is digitization and why digitize?; 3.3 Digitization policies; 3.4 Metadata schemas for digital objects; 3.4.1 Visual Resources Association Core; 3.4.2 Metadata Object Description Schema; 3.4.3 Europeana Data Model; 3.4.4 Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard; 3.4.5 Dublin Core; 4 Digital preservation; 4.1 Defining the digital preservation issue; 4.2 Reasons for taking action and faced challenges; 4.3 Digital preservation plan.

4.4 Digital preservation strategies4.4.1 Migration; 4.4.2 Emulation; 4.4.3 Proactive digital preservation; 4.5 Conceptual models and metadata; 4.5.1 OAIS; 4.5.2 PREMIS; 4.5.3 The PROV Ontology; 4.5.4 Open Provenance Model; 4.6 Digital preservation systems; 5 Promoting archival material in the Social Web; 5.1 Defining Social Media; 5.1.1 Facebook; 5.1.2 Twitter; 5.1.3 Wiki; 5.1.4 YouTube; 5.2 Social media in archives: quantitative and qualitative use; 5.3 Social media policies; 5.4 Big impact?; 6 Archival integration and dissemination: The trends.

6.1 Semantic Interoperability for the archival description6.1.1 Crosswalks; 6.1.2 Ontology-based integration; 6.1.3 Conceptual models; 6.2 Archival description and Linked Data; 7 Archival information sources: A survival's kit; Bibliography; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.

Front Cover

Archives in the Digital Age

Copyright Page

Contents

About the author

Prologue

Introduction

1 Archival description

1.1 Archival description standards

1.1.1 General International Standard Archival Description

1.1.2 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families

1.1.3 International Standard for Describing Functions

1.1.4 International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings

1.2 Archival description metadata

1.2.1 Encoded Archival Description

1.2.2 Encoded archival context-corporate bodies, persons, and families

1.2.3 Encoding functions and archival institutions

1.3 Archival content description standards and rules

1.3.1 Describing Archives: A Content Standard (US)

1.3.2 Rules for Archival Description (Canada)

1.3.3 Archival content description standards and rules in other countries

1.3.4 Knowledge Organization Systems used in archival description

2 Archival management software

2.1 Choosing the right type of information system

2.2 Archival description authoring tools

2.3 Archival management systems

2.3.1 Open source systems

2.3.2 Commercial systems

3 Digitization

3.1 Digitization: An obligation of archival institutions

3.2 What is digitization and why digitize?

3.3 Digitization policies

3.4 Metadata schemas for digital objects

3.4.1 Visual Resources Association Core

3.4.2 Metadata Object Description Schema

3.4.3 Europeana Data Model

3.4.4 Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

3.4.5 Dublin Core

4 Digital preservation

4.1 Defining the digital preservation issue

4.2 Reasons for taking action and faced challenges

4.3 Digital preservation plan

4.4 Digital preservation strategies

4.4.1 Migration

4.4.2 Emulation.

4.4.3 Proactive digital preservation

4.5 Conceptual models and metadata

4.5.1 OAIS

4.5.2 PREMIS

4.5.3 The PROV Ontology

4.5.4 Open Provenance Model

4.6 Digital preservation systems

5 Promoting archival material in the Social Web

5.1 Defining Social Media

5.1.1 Facebook

5.1.2 Twitter

5.1.3 Wiki

5.1.4 YouTube

5.2 Social media in archives: quantitative and qualitative use

5.3 Social media policies

5.4 Big impact?

6 Archival integration and dissemination: The trends

6.1 Semantic Interoperability for the archival description

6.1.1 Crosswalks

6.1.2 Ontology-based integration

6.1.3 Conceptual models

6.2 Archival description and Linked Data

7 Archival information sources: A survival's kit

Bibliography

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.