NER in Archival Finding Aids: Extended

The Historian and Archival Finding Aids

Access to Archival Finding Aids: Context Matters

We detail the design of a search engine for archival finding aids based on an XML database system. The resulting system shows results—which can vary in granularity from individual archival items to the whole fonds—within the context of the archive. The presentation preserves the archival structure by providing important contextual information, and all individual results can be “clicked”, warpin...

Searching Archival Finding Aids: Retrieval in Original Order?

Archival principles as Provenance (keeping material from the same creator together) and its corollary Original Order (keeping the order of creation intact) could help improve access to the archival materials. We investigate the importance of relevance ranking and ‘Original Order’ when searching finding aids in EAD using XML Retrieval. Our experiment shows that relevance ranking is of paramount ...

THE IHPACT OF COMPUTERIZATION ON ARCHIVAL FINDING AIDS : A RAMP STUDY prepared by

The impact of computerization on archival finding aids: a RAMP study / prepared by Christopher Kitching [for the] General Information Programme and UNISIST. PREFACE In order to aid Member States, particularly developing countries, to meet their needs in the specialized areas of Archives Administration and Records Managemant, the Division of the General Information Programme has developed a long...

Modeling Archival Repositories for Digital Libraries Extended

This paper studies the archival problem: how a digital library can preserve electronic documents over long periods of time. We analyze how an archival repository can fail and we present diierent strategies that help solve the problem. We introduce ArchSim, a simulation tool that for evaluating an implementation of an archival repository system and compare options such as diierent disk reliabili...