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Research
Questions
- What
is the role of descriptive schemas and instruments in records creation,
control, maintenance, appraisal, preservation and use in traditional
recordkeeping systems in the three focus areas?
- What
is the role of descriptive schemas and instruments in records creation,
control, maintenance, appraisal, preservation, and use in emerging
recordkeeping systems in digital and web-based environments in
the three focus areas? Do new tools need to be developed, and if
so, what should they be? If not, should present instruments be broadened,
enriched, adapted?
- What
is the role of descriptive schemas and instruments in addressing
reliability, accuracy and authenticity requirements (including the
InterPARES 1 Benchmark and Baseline Authenticity Requirements) concerning
the records investigated by InterPARES 2?
- What
is the role of descriptive schemas and instruments in archival processes
concerned with the long-term preservation of the records in question?
- Do
current interoperable frameworks support the interoperability of
descriptive schema and instruments across the three focus areas?
If not, what kinds of frameworks are needed?
- What
are the implications of the answers to the above questions for traditional
archival descriptive standards, systems and strategies? Will they
need to be modified to enable archival programs to meet new requirements,
or will new ones need to be developed? If so, what should they be?
- To
what extent do existing descriptive schemas and instruments used
in the sectors concerned with the focus areas addressed by this
project (for example, the geo-spatial data community) support and
inform requirements such as those developed by InterPARES 1? Will
they need to be modified to enable these sectors to meet these requirements,
or will new ones need to be developed? If so, what should they be?
- What
is the relationship between the role of descriptive schemas and
instruments needed by the creator and those required by the preserver
to support the archival processes of appraisal, preservation and
dissemination? What tools are needed to support the export/import/exchange
of descriptive data between systems?
- What
is the role of descriptive schemas and instruments in rights management
and in identifying and tracking records components, versions, expressions,
performances and other manifestations, and derivative works?
- Is
it important to be able to relate the record of artistic and scientific
activity to the associated expression, performance, product, work
or other manifestation of it and, if so, in what ways can descriptive
activities facilitate it?
Methodologies
The Description
Cross-domain proposes to apply several methods in the conduct of the
following specific research activities: literary warrant analysis,
metadata mapping, conceptual modeling, activity modeling, metamodeling
and empirical instantiation. The research design is essentially sequential:
it provides for activities that will be ongoing throughout InterPARES
2, activities to be conducted by the Description Cross-domain that
are independent of the timelines of any other InterPARES 2 task force,
activities that can only take place as data are received from other task
forces, and project completion activities.
Expected
Outcomes
The expected
outcomes of this research are scholarly comparative discussions of
existing descriptive standards, and an intellectual framework of descriptive
standards for the records under examination. It is possible that actual
standards will begin to be drafted, but this is not an objective of
the research at this time.
To see the Description
Cross-domain’s Research Design Statement, please click here.
Documents
Public documents
for the Description Cross-domain are located here
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