Summary

The second annual meeting of the Experts Group on Archival Description (EGAD) was held in Girona, Spain on 15-17 October 2014. Local support was provided by Arxiu Municipal de Girona (Spain).

Details

Centre Cívic Barri Vell - Mercadal
Carrer de la Cort Reial, 7, 17004 Girona

Agenda

1. Greetings/Introductions

2. Preliminary discussion of strategy and timeline 2014-2015.

3. Review of work to date (Principles & Terminology; Conceptual Model; and Ontology)

4. Identify the critical gaps in our work that need to be addressed. Preliminary list (to be expanded, grouped in discussion):

a. date and place (jurisdiction - administration - that has (not a corporate body - a property of it?); geographic features): named places but more abstract but can identify by the bounding box (co-ordinates)
b. event/action/transaction and relation
c. library conceptual models and relevance to our work
d. diplomatics: form and structure in relation to medium and content
e. compound/complex documents
f. digital records and migration of data formats
g. copies of records
h. properties for agents, record, record set, function, mandate, relation
i. Class and property names, labels for each
j. what is a records
k. subject description, named events, named periods, geographic features

5: Breakout group assignments/members

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