Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding
and archival management, and hence the relations between historians and archivists …

This paper defines and discusses archival representation and its role in archival practice.
Archival representation refers to both the processes of arrangement and description and is …

The Primarily History project is the first international, comparative study to examine
historians' information-seeking behaviors since the advent of the World Wide Web …

This article seeks to raise consciousness within the field of archival studies in order to foster
a generative discussion about how descriptive practices might be expanded, approached …

This article provides an overview of the literature related to metadata in the context of
archives and museums. This article has several goals: to outline current practices, theories …

User studies have been conducted for many years in the information and library science
fields. In the archival world, this phenomenon has not been as common and less emphasis …

Since the late 1960s, archivists and technologists have developed and implemented
innovative standards, practices, and technologies intended to facilitate the description …

Archivists have traditionally understood access through finding aids, assuming that—
through creating them—they are effectively providing access to archival materials. This …

In this article, we examine the American finding aid as a form of genre from both a cognitive
and a sociological perspective and use this analysis to articulate some of the hidden or …

Digital preservation and archiving stand as grand challenges of the first decade of the 21st
century. Our cultural heritage, modern scientific knowledge, and everyday commerce and …