Abstract
This study explains the adoption of the General International Standard Archival Description – ISAD(G) – from a cultural as well as technical perspective. Using a manuscript archive in Korea as a case study, this paper explores how ISAD(G) is adopted in non-Western countries, what factors influence local practice and also which local socio-cultural elements have an important effect on the process. Through in-depth qualitative research, the author examines specifically how organizational culture shaped the adoption process by means of staff work identity, attitude and education, as well as communication patternsFootnote1.
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Notes
1. This article is a reworking of the Ph.D. dissertation that I submitted to the committee of Information Studies, UCLA, for my doctoral degree on 3 March 2011.
2. Gerst et al., “Social Shaping and Standardization”.
3.CitationShepherd and Pringle, “Mapping Descriptive Standards across Domains”; CitationShepherd and Smith, “Application of ISAD(G) to the Description”; Victoria Irons for the Working Group on Standards for Archival Description with contributions by Marion Matters Walch, ed. Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook (1994); CitationHensen, Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts; CitationHensen, “The First Shall Be First”; CitationDuff and Haworth, “The Reclamation of Archival Description”; CitationHaworth, “The Voyage of RAD”; CitationHaworth, “The Development of Descriptive Standards in Canada”; Victoria Irons Walch for the Working Group on Standards for Archival Description with contributions by Marion Matters, “Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook” http://www.archivists.org/catalog/stds99/index.html.; Citationvan Ballegooie and Duff, “Installment on Archival Metadata”.
4.CitationLee, “Study on the Development of the Korean”.
5. For more information, See CitationKim, “A Study on the Serial Analysis”; CitationKim, “A Study on Comparison of Intellectual Structure”; CitationHahn, “A Study on the MARC- AMC ”; CitationHahn, “A Study on the Archival Description Rules. The Myongji University digital library project is an example of implementing KORMARC to EAD in an integrated system, CitationKim, “Myongji University Digital Library Project”.
6. National Institution of Korean History, “Homepage of National Institution of Korean History,” www.history.go.kr.
8. The interviewees were individuals who directly participated in the metadata project or who were working in the collection management department. In total, 23 face-to-face, one-on-one interviews were conducted for this research.
11. For more studies on professionalism, see also CitationFreidson, Professionalism, the Third Logic.
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