This article analyzes the archival tools’ historical, scientific, and cultural dimensions and their underlying techniques. The aim is then to identify the ways in which it could be possible to go beyond the inevitable approximation of the information in the inventories, going toward research developed not only on metadata but also, and above all, on the data of individual documents.
{"title":"Not the institutions but the subjects matter. Beyond the necessary approximation of finding aids?","authors":"Federico Valacchi","doi":"10.36253/jlis.it-539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-539","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the archival tools’ historical, scientific, and cultural dimensions and their underlying techniques. The aim is then to identify the ways in which it could be possible to go beyond the inevitable approximation of the information in the inventories, going toward research developed not only on metadata but also, and above all, on the data of individual documents.","PeriodicalId":42905,"journal":{"name":"JLIS.it","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Although the creation of archives is a phenomenon innate in the organization of every social system, the full growth of the discipline that examines their features and purposes is found only in the contemporary era and goes hand in hand with the formation of precise historiographic periods. From that point of view, archival work is not typified anymore by merely administrative “writing”, but by the production of research instruments and means of cultural communication, that is, “history books”.
{"title":"Archival science and research tools: methodological aspects from the beginnings of the historical method to standards","authors":"Stefano Moscadelli","doi":"10.36253/jlis.it-531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-531","url":null,"abstract":"Although the creation of archives is a phenomenon innate in the organization of every social system, the full growth of the discipline that examines their features and purposes is found only in the contemporary era and goes hand in hand with the formation of precise historiographic periods. From that point of view, archival work is not typified anymore by merely administrative “writing”, but by the production of research instruments and means of cultural communication, that is, “history books”.","PeriodicalId":42905,"journal":{"name":"JLIS.it","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Italian Central State Archive has recently created a system, called the Digital Library, for the management and access to all its databases, to all digital or digitized inventories, as well as to all digital collections, created as part of previous projects or in progress with important new digitization campaigns. The contribution illustrates its structure, functions and prospects.
{"title":"From chaos to cosmos","authors":"Andrea De Pasquale","doi":"10.36253/jlis.it-545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-545","url":null,"abstract":"Italian Central State Archive has recently created a system, called the Digital Library, for the management and access to all its databases, to all digital or digitized inventories, as well as to all digital collections, created as part of previous projects or in progress with important new digitization campaigns. The contribution illustrates its structure, functions and prospects.","PeriodicalId":42905,"journal":{"name":"JLIS.it","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The history of institutions and archival science have been two closely related disciplines since their beginnings. With this article, we examine some paths in the history of institutions highly dependent on archival records that pertain mainly to the Italian history of the 1800s and 1900s, particularly the history of the judiciary and administration. For today's and the future situation concerning the preservation and use for historical purposes of digital sources, it is hoped that the common path between archivists and historians will know new developments, as, moreover, is already the case
{"title":"Historical-institutional paths through archival documents (and more)","authors":"Antonella Meniconi","doi":"10.36253/jlis.it-560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-560","url":null,"abstract":"The history of institutions and archival science have been two closely related disciplines since their beginnings. With this article, we examine some paths in the history of institutions highly dependent on archival records that pertain mainly to the Italian history of the 1800s and 1900s, particularly the history of the judiciary and administration. For today's and the future situation concerning the preservation and use for historical purposes of digital sources, it is hoped that the common path between archivists and historians will know new developments, as, moreover, is already the case","PeriodicalId":42905,"journal":{"name":"JLIS.it","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The author explains the scientific reasons for the decision to create an editorial series dedicated to the printed publication of archival descriptive tools.
作者解释了决定创建一个专门用于档案描述工具印刷出版物的社论系列的科学原因。
{"title":"The Invenire series: why continue to print archival inventories?","authors":"Giorgetta Bonfiglio-Dosio","doi":"10.36253/jlis.it-544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-544","url":null,"abstract":"The author explains the scientific reasons for the decision to create an editorial series dedicated to the printed publication of archival descriptive tools.","PeriodicalId":42905,"journal":{"name":"JLIS.it","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the field of archival publishing, the transition phase in which the relationship between print and digital was in contrast is considered closed and it’s time to move towards a new model of integration. It would be time to start a more mature reflection, in the perspective of imagining a dialectical relationship, not of contrast but capable of overcoming indifference in view of a fruitful integration. For this purpose, this paper provides some ideas and some proposals for work, in the hope that the academic world, Anai and Directorate General Archives will start in collaboration shared work.
{"title":"Research tools between print and digital publishing: not opposition but integration","authors":"Antonella Mulè","doi":"10.36253/jlis.it-562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-562","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of archival publishing, the transition phase in which the relationship between print and digital was in contrast is considered closed and it’s time to move towards a new model of integration. It would be time to start a more mature reflection, in the perspective of imagining a dialectical relationship, not of contrast but capable of overcoming indifference in view of a fruitful integration. For this purpose, this paper provides some ideas and some proposals for work, in the hope that the academic world, Anai and Directorate General Archives will start in collaboration shared work.","PeriodicalId":42905,"journal":{"name":"JLIS.it","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JLIS.it puts the organization of knowledge at the centre of its interests. Indeed, one can go so far as to say that the study of knowledge management processes as a whole best represents the focal point of our journal's scientific objectives. On the other hand, if we look at archival description as a complicated process of collecting, organizing and processing the information necessary to promote the knowledge and use of archival material, we recognise that it is a process of knowledge management and interpretation. Indeed, if we go beyond the perhaps somewhat breathless perimeters of a consolidated technical vocabulary, describing an archive means processing and transmitting codified information. This particular knowledge domain is also fed by data conveyed by increasingly changing objects such as documents and it is therefore as dynamic and multifaceted as its objects of study. Archival tools, in their typological and informative multiplicity, are in turn the most effective synthesis of archival work, especially when dealing with the world of historical archives. For these reasons it was deemed appropriate and useful to dedicate the present issue of JLIS.it to archival mediation as a peculiar form of knowledge management and to the tools through which it manifests itself. The essays making up the issue derive in almost all cases from the works of the AIDUSA conference Research on the border. Archival tools between production, dematerialization and continuity of use, held in Rome on 13 and 14 October 2022.
{"title":"On the edge of knowledge","authors":"None Editorial board","doi":"10.36253/jlis.it-582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-582","url":null,"abstract":"JLIS.it puts the organization of knowledge at the centre of its interests. Indeed, one can go so far as to say that the study of knowledge management processes as a whole best represents the focal point of our journal's scientific objectives. On the other hand, if we look at archival description as a complicated process of collecting, organizing and processing the information necessary to promote the knowledge and use of archival material, we recognise that it is a process of knowledge management and interpretation. Indeed, if we go beyond the perhaps somewhat breathless perimeters of a consolidated technical vocabulary, describing an archive means processing and transmitting codified information. This particular knowledge domain is also fed by data conveyed by increasingly changing objects such as documents and it is therefore as dynamic and multifaceted as its objects of study. Archival tools, in their typological and informative multiplicity, are in turn the most effective synthesis of archival work, especially when dealing with the world of historical archives. For these reasons it was deemed appropriate and useful to dedicate the present issue of JLIS.it to archival mediation as a peculiar form of knowledge management and to the tools through which it manifests itself. The essays making up the issue derive in almost all cases from the works of the AIDUSA conference Research on the border. Archival tools between production, dematerialization and continuity of use, held in Rome on 13 and 14 October 2022.","PeriodicalId":42905,"journal":{"name":"JLIS.it","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evaluating the effectiveness of search tools, the ease of use of the selection and display interfaces of archival descriptions and documents, and the satisfaction of end users are not everyday activities among archive service managers. A culture of quality should instead consider actual effectiveness, adopting a user-centred design and a systematic comparison with final users. Within the international project InterPARES Trust AI, focused on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on archival functions, specific studies have been activated on user access to archives and documents from the AI perspective. This contribution presents this project, its assumptions, objectives, and results and the first results of the study in Italy on users.
{"title":"Archival users and AI tools for reference and access: a study within the InterPARES Trust AI project","authors":"Pierluigi Feliciati","doi":"10.36253/jlis.it-558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-558","url":null,"abstract":"Evaluating the effectiveness of search tools, the ease of use of the selection and display interfaces of archival descriptions and documents, and the satisfaction of end users are not everyday activities among archive service managers. A culture of quality should instead consider actual effectiveness, adopting a user-centred design and a systematic comparison with final users. Within the international project InterPARES Trust AI, focused on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on archival functions, specific studies have been activated on user access to archives and documents from the AI perspective. This contribution presents this project, its assumptions, objectives, and results and the first results of the study in Italy on users.","PeriodicalId":42905,"journal":{"name":"JLIS.it","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Semantic Web in general, and the LOD in particular, suppose that the knowledge conveyed by documents must be adequately modeled and represented to produce reliable and trustworthy data. Following this statement, we understand that in the archival domain the tricky and subtle transition from the traditional methodologies for data description to Linked Open Data must be delegated to agents able to skilfully read the content of cultural objects. The Digital Hermeneutics model aims to propose a layered architecture that allows, beyond the descriptive specificities of each domain, to formalize the data transformation from the native system to LOD. The idea is to guarantee, through context information, that each moment of the transformation workflow is documented, finally strengthening the trust of the resultant dataset.
{"title":"Archival Finding Aids in Linked Open Data between description and interpretation","authors":"Francesca Tomasi","doi":"10.36253/jlis.it-557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-557","url":null,"abstract":"The Semantic Web in general, and the LOD in particular, suppose that the knowledge conveyed by documents must be adequately modeled and represented to produce reliable and trustworthy data. Following this statement, we understand that in the archival domain the tricky and subtle transition from the traditional methodologies for data description to Linked Open Data must be delegated to agents able to skilfully read the content of cultural objects. The Digital Hermeneutics model aims to propose a layered architecture that allows, beyond the descriptive specificities of each domain, to formalize the data transformation from the native system to LOD. The idea is to guarantee, through context information, that each moment of the transformation workflow is documented, finally strengthening the trust of the resultant dataset.","PeriodicalId":42905,"journal":{"name":"JLIS.it","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The archival description has undergone a long process of development and standardization. The work of the Experts Group on Archival Description in developing the Records in Contexts (RiC-CM) and Records in Contexts Ontology (RiC-O) models has contributed to rekindling reflection on the integration of archival description into broader information retrieval systems which could potentially facilitate the dissemination of knowledge. The contribution attempts to reflect on the potential and possible critical issues in semantic data modeling from an integrated description perspective, inviting greater reflection on the design and on the management of possible digital information restitution environments.
{"title":"From Record to Data. New purposes for Archival Description processes","authors":"Giorgia Di Marcantonio","doi":"10.36253/jlis.it-549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-549","url":null,"abstract":"The archival description has undergone a long process of development and standardization. The work of the Experts Group on Archival Description in developing the Records in Contexts (RiC-CM) and Records in Contexts Ontology (RiC-O) models has contributed to rekindling reflection on the integration of archival description into broader information retrieval systems which could potentially facilitate the dissemination of knowledge. The contribution attempts to reflect on the potential and possible critical issues in semantic data modeling from an integrated description perspective, inviting greater reflection on the design and on the management of possible digital information restitution environments.","PeriodicalId":42905,"journal":{"name":"JLIS.it","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73049331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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