Provenance description is necessary for long-term preservation of digital resources. Open Archival Information System (OAIS) and Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS), which are well-known standards designed for digital preservation, define descriptive elements for digital preservation. Metadata has to be preserved as well as primary resource in order to keep the primary res...

The dissertation investigates what archival users are looking for in an archive in terms of reference questions and how they are searching for answers by applying those questions to digital archival finding aids within a specific archival information system. Patterns of questions and search behavior are modeled in an ontology representing the knowledge archival users expect from archival findin...

This article historicizes the archive as a mechanism of exclusion. It focuses on three archival sites (the development of archival rationalization in the 19th century, national archives and the collecting of government documents, and the discipline of history) to analyze their shared logics of classification, identity, evidence, and authenticity. These three sites are connected through the auth...

background: this article sets up the initial discussion of the evolution of biopharmaceutical innovation in china through the perspective of sectoral innovation system (sis).methods: two data sources including archival documentary data and field interviews were used in this study. archival documentary data was collected from china food and drug administration (cfda) and chinese national knowled...

To promote collaboration, urban planners need to devise processes that consider stakeholders’ interests not as an afterthought but as an integral component of decision analysis. In this paper, I introduce and illustrate a framework that attempts to do so using a longrunning road extension planning process in Urbana, Illinois, USA. Drawing upon archival research, stakeholder reactions, and my ex...

Landmines are one of the most environmentally destructive aftermaths of war facing the world today. The barely chronicled global landmine problem has transcended both humanitarian and sociological concerns to bring about environmental damage. Disruption of land’s stability, pollution and loss of biodiversity constitute major ecological repercussions of landmine crisis. This review qualitatively...