Transforming archival education

  • Jinfang Niu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2014.1000347
Keywords: archival description, Australian Series System, EAD, OAI-ORE

Abstract

This paper discusses limitations of the current archival description standard Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and proposes two solutions to overcome these limitations. One solution is to modify the current EAD schema based on the entity–relationship model defined in the Australian Series System. The other solution is to replace EAD with another standard, the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), which can be used to produce more flexible archival descriptions in linked data format.

Author Biography

Jinfang Niu

Jinfang Niu is an assistant professor at the School of Information, University of South Florida. She received her PhD from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to that, she worked as a librarian at the Tsinghua University Library for three years. Her current research focuses on electronic records and digital curation.

Published
2015-02-24
How to Cite
Niu J. (2015) “Transforming archival education”, Archives & Manuscripts, 43(2), pp. 120-130. doi: 10.1080/01576895.2014.1000347.
Issue
Vol 43 No 2 (2015)
Section
Articles

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