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Reflections

Rethinking approaches to recordkeeping metadata

Pages 200-203 | Published online: 30 Jul 2014
 

Notes

1. Standards Australia, AS 5478:2014, ‘Recordkeeping Metadata Properties Reference Set’, publication pending.

2. An umbrella phrase for those used by a variety of politicians. See for example Nicola Roxon, Attorney General Commonwealth of Australia, quoted in Josh Taylor, ‘Roxon Calls for Cold Shower on Data-Retention “Hysteria”’, 5 September 2012, available at

<http://www.zdnet.com/au/roxon-calls-for-cold-shower-on-data-retention-hysteria-7000003742/>, accessed 1 March 2014, or Senator George Brandis, Question Time, Australian Senate, 3 December 2013, available at <http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/questions-without-notice/questioning-attorney-general-about-surveillance-overreach>, accessed 1 March 2014.

3. United States President Barrack Obama, ‘Transcript of President Obama’s Jan. 17 Speech on NSA Reforms’, The Washington Post, 18 January 2014, available at <http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-text-of-president-obamas-jan-17-speech-on-nsa-reforms/2014/01/17/fa33590a-7f8c-11e3-9556-4a4bf7bcbd84_story.html>, accessed 1 March 2014.

4. David Bearman, Archival Methods, Archives and Museum Informatics Technical Report No. 9, Archives and Museum Informatics, Pittsburgh, 1989, available at <http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/archival_methods/>, accessed 1 March 2014.

5. For example, the work of the UK Archival Portal, Archives Hub, available at <http://archiveshub.ac.uk/isadg/>, last accessed 1 March 2014.

6. EGAD – ICA, available at <http://www.ica.org/13799/the-experts-group-on-archival-description/about-the-egad.html>, last accessed 1 March 2014.

7. ISO 23081-1, Information and Documentation – Metadata for Records – Part 1, Principles; ISO 23081-2, Information and Documentation – Metadata for Records – Part 2, Conceptual and Implementation Issues; ISO 23091-3, Information and Documentation – Metadata for Records – Part 3, Self Assessment Method.

8. The works of digital humanitarians or digital historians are multiple, but I continue to cite my two favourites, the work of Dr Mitchell Whitelaw, see examples of his work on <http://visiblearchive.blogspot.com/>, accessed 1 March 2014 (particularly Archive Series Browser) and the work of Dr Tim Sherratt, see <http://discontents.com.au/>, last accessed 1 March 2014 or <http://invisibleaustralians.org/faces/>, last accessed 1 March 2014.

9. See the work of the NSW Digital Archive Team in linking to government websites such as ‘publications.nsw.gov.au’.

10. Ann E Pederson, ‘Understanding Ourselves and Others: Australian Archivists and Temperament’, Archival Science, vol. 3, no. 3, 2005, pp. 223–274.

11. Dublin Core and METS, for example, both have core recordkeeping metadata about the scheme subsumed under ‘administrative’ metadata.

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Notes on contributors

Barbara Reed

Barbara Reed of Recordkeeping Innovation is a consultant in the field of records, archives and information management with more than 25 years of industry experience in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Previously she was an academic in recordkeeping at Monash University. Areas of special interest include digital recordkeeping strategies, recordkeeping metadata and standards development for whole-of-government initiatives.

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