Naslov
The Conceptualization of Archival Materials Held in Museums

Autori
Štefanac, Tamara

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, doktorska disertacija

Mjesto
Zadar

Datum
24.03

Godina
2017

Stranica
223

Mentor
Gilliland, Anne J. ; Willer, Mirna

Ključne riječi
archives, museums, description, metadata, standards

Sažetak
Archives, libraries and museums all preserve collections containing a diversity of material. In managing these collections different standards are used, each developed within their own professional community and addressing that community's perspectives and needs. These different descriptive standards and the access points defined by them should be transparent to outside users when they are searching for material preserved in different kinds of institutions regardless of how the describers have categorized the material, and the users should be able to move across institutions and collate resources with ease. However this is not the case. The central thesis of the research is that the arrangement and description of archival and other documentary material found in museum settings are dependent on how curators determine what constitutes archival material, and what constitutes a museum object or museum documentation, and what might potentially be both. Arguing that the path to any kind of interoperability starts with the people who implement these descriptive standards, this exploratory study investigates curators’ understandings of archival and documentary materials held in their museums (i.e., rather than in archives) by identifying and analyzing their attitudes towards the records that surround them in their daily professional practice and towards their description of those records. It also contemplates how museum curators perceive the role of the descriptions they create when these are to be placed online in an environment where there are no longer institutional boundaries and the anticipated audience is not socially restricted (e.g., only to "serious" or "expert" scholars).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

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