Summary

The inaugural annual meeting of the Experts Group on Archival Description (EGAD) was held in Brussels, Belgium on 19-21 November 2013. Local support was provided by Archives générales du Royaume/Algemeen Rijksarchief (Belgium).

Details

Agenda

1) Introductions

2) Methods: General

3) Overview of the EGAD mandate

a) An Archival Conceptual Model
b) ICA Description Standards
c) Scope - Government archives, private records, non-government corporate archives, family records,
d) Context

i) Technology: markup, database, and graph (in particular semantic)
ii) National and project archival conceptual model initiatives
iii) Conceptual models in other cultural heritage domains: FRBR (FRBRoo) and CIDOC CRM
iv) Other conceptual models (schema.org, foaf,)

4) The two complementary EGAD products

a) Model as descriptive document, prose and diagrams
b) Model as formally expressed in a machine-readable form (perhaps OWL), based on core archival concepts and terminology, though mapped to CRM/FRBRoo

5) Archival Principles

a) Provenance
b) Respect des fonds
c) Respect de l'order intérieure

6) Modeling what?

a) Human activity and byproducts/products of human activity, as such
b) Archival perspective
c) Archival description

7) National archival conceptual model initiatives

a) Australian Government Recordkeeping Metadata Standard Version 2.0 (2008) (AGRkMS)
b) CNEDA: Modelo Conceptual de Descripción Archivística y Requisitos de Datos Básicos de las Descripciones de Documentos de Archivo, Agentes y Funciones in 2012.
c) Finnish Conceptual Model for Archival Description

8) Plan of work; work groups; work assignments; deadlines

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