Gabriella Ivacs
Chief Archivist, OSA ArchivumWeb: www.osaarchivum.org
Email: Ivacsg@ceu.hu
Emerging Archives / Parallel Archives
New Digital Distribution Model
- Free Information Exchange
- Rights Management
- Commons
- Interoperability of systems
- public assessment and use without constraints
- not any components or extensions that have dependencies on formats or protocols that do not meet the definition of an Open Standard
- free from legal or technical clauses that limit its utilisation
- managed and further developed independently of any single vendor in an open process open
- available in multiple complete implementations
- open XML-based document file format for displaying, storing and editing office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, and presentations.
- application-independent file format by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
- approved by ISO and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as an
- Long -term access to information
- Platform independent
- Complies with constitutional rights: equal opportunity, access to information, decreases the digital divide
- immediate
- permanent
- free online access
The Open Content: Digital Distribution of Content for Fair Use
How about Archives?
Conditions for Trusted Digital Archives
- System: make conscious decisions about IT infrastructure, preservation plan
- Standards: XML, ISADG, ODF, DC stb.
- Access: Declassification, policies and procedures, modern reference services (off line and online)
- Content: item level processing, good metadata, context, digital images and text
- Sustainability: business plan and risk management
- Professionals: archivist as information brokers, merging roles
Case Study:Trusted Repository/ Soros Network Archival Portal (SNAP)
Attributes of the Parallel Archive as a Potential Model for Open Archives
- Folksonomy vs. Hierarchy
- Individual/Community needs vs. Institutional needs
- Thematic Collections vs. Collections based on Provenance
- United Collections vs. Dispersed Collections
- Sharing vs. Individualistic Approach
- Persistent URLs vs. Existing citation models
- Enhanced Access to Primary Sources vs. Secondary Sources
- Preservation Service vs. Centralized Preservation
- Multilingual, Crossdisciplinary vs. National, language centered
- New Business Model vs. Non-profit Institution
- Visibility vs. Isolation
- Folksonomy can lead to chaos and delay high quality research
- Intellectual Altruism?or Marketing?
- Losing Context for Archival Records
- Huge Preservation Capacity
- Technology issues
- Language Barriers
- Legal Issues, IPRs, Copyright, Archival Act, Secrecy, Privacy
- Sustainibility
- Spontaneous Digitization, lack of Best Practices, Standards
- How to deliver archival content to Publishers?
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