Tag Archives: discovery

Improving access to archives and other records: A modest proposal

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Cassie Findlay

Come and join us at the next Recordkeeping Roundtable event, in which we will be exploring some ideas for presenting and sharing archival description information to better harness the opportunities of the online world, and do it in a sustainable … Continue reading →

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Report on ‘Hacking the archives: Archival description in an online world’

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

How do we ensure that “meaning as well as content lies at the end of the road to discovery?” On Wednesday August 24 we got together to talk about the question of how we can ensure that “meaning as well … Continue reading →

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Hacking the archives: Archival description in an online world

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

How do we ensure that “meaning as well as content lies at the end of the road to discovery?” Recordkeepers strive to contextualise, authenticate and preserve evidence. They create detailed descriptive tools and infrastructures as means to describe and manage … Continue reading →

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