This article discusses some of the intellectual issues involved in the indexing of visual or
pictorial images, postulating that the indexing of images should provide access to images …

" Mixed material" items—" whatchamacallits"—appearing in manuscript collections of
personal records pose special cataloging, access, and interpretive challenges for archivists …

Humanists use a wide variety of textual, graphic, and aural materials in their research. Each
type of material presents special indexing challenges. Research into the nature of these …

Digital libraries are increasingly common, being developed by government agencies to
disseminate and preserve the documentation produced by its employees. This proposes a …

Integration of archival materials cataloged in the USMARC AMC format into online catalogs
has given a new urgency to the need for direct subject access. The author offers a broad …

This paper explores the origins of the Dublin Core 1: 1 Principle within DCMI documentation.
It finds that the need for the 1: 1 Principle emerged from prior work within the cultural …

Form, genre, and physical characteristics are basic elements in the description of archival
material. Either alone or in combination with such other information as name of originating …

Traditionnellement, l'accès aux fonds d'archives s' est fait en fonction de leur provenance—
c'est-à-dire la relation des documents au corps structurant—qui ne propose qu'une …

Abstract The Dublin Core 1: 1 Principle asserts that" related but conceptually different
entities, for example a painting and a digital image of the painting, are described by …

This article looks at the contributions that historical photograph collections can make to
people's lives, by examining the ideas that museums, archives and libraries explore and …