Doing What's Possible with What We've Got: Using the World Wide Web to Integrate Archival Functions

This article explores one way of presenting archival information using the World Wide Web. It shows how different kinds of archival descriptive information resting in electronic formats in various legacy systems can be integrated and presented in a single view/window using flexible, simple informati...

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Published in:The American archivist 1998-04, Vol.61 (1), p.106-122
Main Author: PICHE, J.-S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archival description
Archives
Archives. Museums
Archivists
Documentation institutions
Electronic media
Exact sciences and technology
HTML
Hyperlinks
Information and communication sciences
Information science. Documentation
National archives
Public records
Records disposal
Sciences and techniques of general use
Websites
World Wide Web
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Summary:This article explores one way of presenting archival information using the World Wide Web. It shows how different kinds of archival descriptive information resting in electronic formats in various legacy systems can be integrated and presented in a single view/window using flexible, simple information technology tools. It also presents to archivists the advantages of accessing integrated archival information on more than one archival function to enhance the archivist's conceptual knowledge of the record and records creators.
ISSN:0360-9081
2327-9702
DOI:10.17723/aarc.61.1.3j164456811r68l5