Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Research: Towards Testable Specificity

Research: Towards Testable Specificity Archives and Museum Informatics 11: 309–321, 1997. 309 c 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Research: Towards Testable Specificity DAVID BEARMAN and JENNIFER TRANT Archives and Museum Informatics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 1. Introduction A decade ago, most archivists thought about electronic records issues much the way that librarians do today – as a problem of documenting and preserving data files in specialized repositories. Since then networked computing has transformed the mechanisms of business communications and archivists have increasingly adopted the view that records, whether paper or electronic, are the carriers and documen- tation of the everyday transactions of business. As such, the fundamental issues regarding record capture and retention, whether in paper or electronic form are their identification, classification by provenance, and retention in context of use so they can be understood. Only when these challenges have been successfully met will questions of how or where to keep records or how to provide access to them arise. This meeting, one of numerous working meetings and conferences of archivists engaged in electronic records research in the past decade, was modeled on similar 2 3 sessions in 1994 and 1991. Although it sought to give sufficient definition to the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives and Museum Informatics Springer Journals

Research: Towards Testable Specificity

Download PDF
13 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/research-towards-testable-specificity-1BZetrP00u

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Computer Science; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Document Preparation and Text Processing; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Library Science; Arts
ISSN
1042-1467
eISSN
1573-7500
DOI
10.1023/A:1009056622920
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Archives and Museum Informatics 11: 309–321, 1997. 309 c 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Research: Towards Testable Specificity DAVID BEARMAN and JENNIFER TRANT Archives and Museum Informatics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 1. Introduction A decade ago, most archivists thought about electronic records issues much the way that librarians do today – as a problem of documenting and preserving data files in specialized repositories. Since then networked computing has transformed the mechanisms of business communications and archivists have increasingly adopted the view that records, whether paper or electronic, are the carriers and documen- tation of the everyday transactions of business. As such, the fundamental issues regarding record capture and retention, whether in paper or electronic form are their identification, classification by provenance, and retention in context of use so they can be understood. Only when these challenges have been successfully met will questions of how or where to keep records or how to provide access to them arise. This meeting, one of numerous working meetings and conferences of archivists engaged in electronic records research in the past decade, was modeled on similar 2 3 sessions in 1994 and 1991. Although it sought to give sufficient definition to the

Journal

Archives and Museum Informatics – Springer Journals

Published: Oct 15, 2004

There are no references for this article.