Archives in the digital age : standards,policies and tools

Archives in the Digital Age: Standards, Policies and Tools discusses semantic web technologies and their increased usage in distributing archival material. The book is a useful manual for archivists and information specialists working in cultural heritage institutions, including archives, libraries, and museums, providing detailed analyses of how metadata and standards are used to manage archival material, and how this material is disseminated through the web using the Internet, the semantic web, and social media technologies.

Following an introduction from the author, the book is divided into five sections that explore archival description, digitization, the preservation of archives, the promotion of archival material through social media, and current trends in archival science.

• About the author p. vii
• Prologue p. ix
• Introduction p. xi
• 1 Archival description p. 1
• 1.1 Archival description standards p. 2
• 1.2 Archival description metadata p. 13
• 1.3 Archival content description standards and rules p. 18
• 2 Archival management software p. 23
• 2.1 Choosing the right type of information system p. 23
• 2.2 Archival description authoring tools p. 24
• 2.3 Archival management systems p. 25
• 3 Digitization p. 29
• 3.1 Digitization: An obligation of archival institutions p. 29
• 3.2 What is digitization and why digitize? p. 29
• 3.3 Digitization policies p. 30
• 3.4 Metadata schemas for digital objects p. 32
• 4 Digital preservation p. 37
• 4.1 Defining the digital preservation issue p. 37
• 4.2 Reasons for taking action and faced challenges p. 38
• 4.3 Digital preservation plan p. 40
• 4.4 Digital preservation strategies p. 41
• 4.5 Conceptual models and metadata p. 44
• 4.6 Digital preservation systems p. 49
• 5 Promoting archival material in the Social Web p. 51
• 5.1 Defining Social Media p. 52
• 5.2 Social media in archives: quantitative and qualitative use p. 57
• 5.3 Social media policies p. 59
• 5.4 Big impact? p. 60
• 6 Archival integration and dissemination: The trends p. 61
• 6.1 Semantic Interoperability for the archival description p. 61
• 6.2 Archival description and Linked Data p. 68
• 7 Archival information sources: A survival's kit p. 71
• Bibliography p. 77
• Epilogue p. 89
• Index p. 91