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PITTI,
Daniel; POPOVICI, Bogdan – Florin;
STOCKTING, William
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Curriculum
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Daniel Pitti
is Associate Director of the
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. From 1993-2010, Pitti served as the chief technical architect of
Encoded Archival Description (EAD, a standard for encoding archival guides,
and Encoded Archival Context-Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families
(EAC-CPF), a standard for encoding archival identity records. Pitti currently serves on the SAA Standards Committee
Schema Development Team, and is the chair of the International Council on
Archives Experts Group on Archival Description, charged with developing a archival conceptual model. Pitti
is project director of the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC)
Project.
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Bogdan-Florin
Popovici graduated from the Faculty for Archival
Science in Bucharest
(1999) and holds a Ph.D. in Modern History (2004). He attended the Autumn School
for Archival Science (Trieste, Italy, 2007-2009), and Stage technique
international d'archives (Paris, 2008). He is member of the
International Institute for Archival Science (Trieste-Maribor). Since
graduation, he has worked as an archivist at the National Archives of
Romania, where he has engaged in a range of activities, including records
management supervision, archival processing, and archival training. He has
served on several experts group in Romania (2007-2012) and
contributed significantly in the implementation of the National Archives
Information System (2013). He served on the ICA Committee on Best Practices
and Standards (2008-2012) and is a member of the ICA Experts Group on
Archival Description. His current interests focus on archival description,
archival terminology and electronic archiving.
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Bill Stockting is an acknowledged expert on archival
processing, description, and its automation and access. At the Public
Record Office and National Archives, he was a member of the team that
developed the first online catalogue system (PROCAT) and managed the
groundbreaking Access to Archives (A2A) Programme. At the British Library,
he has lead the development of the Integrated Archives and Manuscripts
System (IAMS) which provides single cataloguing and access environments for
the Library's archive and manuscript collections for the first time. Bill
is currently the co-chair of the Society of American Archivists' Technical
Sub-committee on Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and also sits on the
sibling committee for Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons
and Families (EAC-CPF) as well as being a member of the International
Council on Archives' (ICA) Expert Group on Archival Description.
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Brief summary:
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The ICA Experts Group on Archival Description (2012-2016) will
present an interim report on developing a Conceptual Model for archival
description based on the four existing ICA description standards. The model will
serve as a foundation for the next generation of archival description and
access.
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Content:
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The ICA Experts Group on Archival Description (EGAD) will present an
interim report on its plan of work and work completed to date. PCOM formed
EGAD late in 2012. The EGAD's term is 2012-2016.
The Group is charged with developing a formal Conceptual Model for archival
description that is based on the four existing ICA description standards, and that
serves as a foundation for the international archival community to employ
the latest technologies, in particular semantic technologies, and to
promote national, regional, and international cooperation in providing
vastly enhanced description and access to records. While the work will
focus first and foremost on the needs of the archival community, the
development process will also be informed by the conceptual models of
allied professional communities, with the long-term objective of supporting
integrated access to our shared cultural heritage. The chair of the EGAD
and the three members will report on three major areas of activity:
Principles and Terminology, Conceptual Model, and Ontology.
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Scientific contribution:
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The EGAD
panel will present the professional rationale for developing a conceptual
model for archival description, particularly discussing the professional
and technological context within which the work is taking place. Panel
members will also provide expert knowledge on conceptual models and their
relation to advanced and emerging communication technologies, in particular
semantic technologies; on the principles of archival arrangement and
description, with a particular emphasis on "records in context;"
and observations on the relation of the developing conceptual model to
existing ICA standards, existing national models, and the models of allied
professional communities.
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Keywords:
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Archival description standards; conceptual
models; ontologies; semantic
technologies
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