Things in the World. The integration process of archival descriptions in intercultural systems
This paper conjectures that standard archival descriptions are no longer efficient in order to answer to society needs, mainly in an intercultural perspective. After a brief evaluation of the peculiarities of cultural heritage different domain languages, the specific issues of archival descriptions...
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| author | Federico Valacchi |
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| description | This paper conjectures that standard archival descriptions are no longer efficient in order to answer to society needs, mainly in an intercultural perspective. After a brief evaluation of the peculiarities of cultural heritage different domain languages, the specific issues of archival descriptions are discussed, seeking the possible strategies - technological as well as cultural - valid to open to an integration of descriptive languages. A particular focus is proposed on RDA, an approach which shows to be the best candidate to harmonize the separate descriptions typical of archival domain and activating the potential informative integrations with any limitation of information environments and single content quality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-43ea40ae8c064ab0a983d91daaaa3b562024-01-24T17:48:56ZengFirenze University PressJLIS.it2038-10262016-05-0172Things in the World. The integration process of archival descriptions in intercultural systemsFederico ValacchiThis paper conjectures that standard archival descriptions are no longer efficient in order to answer to society needs, mainly in an intercultural perspective. After a brief evaluation of the peculiarities of cultural heritage different domain languages, the specific issues of archival descriptions are discussed, seeking the possible strategies - technological as well as cultural - valid to open to an integration of descriptive languages. A particular focus is proposed on RDA, an approach which shows to be the best candidate to harmonize the separate descriptions typical of archival domain and activating the potential informative integrations with any limitation of information environments and single content quality.http://jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/175Archival descriptionArchivesIntegration |
| spellingShingle | Federico Valacchi Things in the World. The integration process of archival descriptions in intercultural systems JLIS.it Archival description Archives Integration |
| title | Things in the World. The integration process of archival descriptions in intercultural systems |
| title_full | Things in the World. The integration process of archival descriptions in intercultural systems |
| title_fullStr | Things in the World. The integration process of archival descriptions in intercultural systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Things in the World. The integration process of archival descriptions in intercultural systems |
| title_short | Things in the World. The integration process of archival descriptions in intercultural systems |
| title_sort | things in the world the integration process of archival descriptions in intercultural systems |
| topic | Archival description Archives Integration |
| url | http://jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/175 |
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