Domenella, Camilla, Fedriga, Riccardo, and Mattioni, Margherita
Subjects
DEFINITIONS, ARCHIVES
Abstract
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Il contributo muove dall'ipotesi che il linguaggio descrittivo archivistico tradizionale non risponda più efficacemente alle diverse sollecitazioni della società contemporanea. Dopo una valutazione delle specificità dei linguaggi di dominio delle singole aree dei cosiddetti beni culturali e un approfondimento delle problematiche del dominio archivistico, si individuano le possibili strategie — tecnologiche ma anche culturali — che consentirebbero una reale integrazione dei linguaggi descrittivi. In particolare, si analizza RDA come lo strumento potenzialmente più efficace per armonizzare le diverse componenti semantiche della tipica descrizione archivistica in entità separate e al tempo stesso attivare le possibili integrazioni interculturali senza limitare la qualità dei contenuti e degli ambienti di restituzione. This paper conjectures that standard archival descriptions are no longer efficient in order to answer to society needs, mainly in an intercultural perspective. After a brief evaluation of the peculiarities of cultural heritage different domain languages, the specific issues of archival descriptions are discussed, seeking the possible strategies - technological as well as cultural - valid to open to an integration of descriptive languages. A particular focus is proposed on RDA, an approach which shows to be the best candidate to harmonize the separate descriptions typical of archival domain and activating the potential informative integrations with any limitation of information environments and single content quality.
When conducting historical research, especially in archives of (state) administrations that hold many documents of a generic nature, one sometimes stumbles onto sources that do not reveal their importance at first sight, but only disclose their relevance over time. In this paper, we will discuss one such a document, unearthed during research on the colonial public healthcare infrastructure in the former Belgian Congo. Entitled “Situation des Constructions C.M.C. au 1-9-1954” and produced by t...
Published
2018
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