Lecture about the changing nature of archival description in a world of digital representations

2. Make relationships visible,
Give relation-directed access

3. Decontextualisation –
Recontextualisation I

4. Decontextualisation –
Recontextualisation II

5. Relationships of Entities

6. Framework for
Recontextualisation

7. Multiplicity of Relationships
• Relationships / Context / Provenance
• Four Domain Model:
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Organisational relationships
Functional relationships
Relationships in documenting
Relationships in recordkeeping
• „Not all processes result in documents; not all
documents are captured by the recordkeeping
system.“ (J. Papritz)

8. Compiling Documentary
Units
• Documentary Unit = Representation of one or
more selected relationships
• Consisting on grouped digital images
• To be defined as an entity through METS

9. Enriching with User
Generated Content
• Identifying documentary units needs technic
tools
• Provide tools for flexible METS encoding
• Identifying units needs descriptive tools
• Identifying units needs encoding tools

10. Descriptive Tools
• Goal: Identifying relationships in documents‘
descriptions
– EAD: <origination type=„cpf“>
• Organisational provenance
– EAD: <origination type=„funact“>
• Functional provenance
• Goal: Describing relationships through authority
records
– EAC-CPF: cpf
– EAC-F: functions, activities …

11. EAD Provenance – File Level

12. Functions of a University

13. Thank you for your attention!