Hello again,
Andrew wrote...
"I would like to see
standards encompassing both paper and digital archives which specify
the media/formats most conducive to long term preservation and
accessibility."
I agree Andrew, and the IFA has published separately to its Standards and
Guidance documents a series of Occasional papers which address some of these
issues*. However, the objective that we have here is identifying and
recommending to IFA the content of the metadata that will allow future
archaeologists to
1) find these archives, whatever their format, and
2) ( agreeing with a point made by Janet) transfer data from one data set to
another without losing its meaning.
Edmund
*see 'Archaeological documentary archives' IFA paper no.1 Lesley Fergusson
and Diana Murray
and 'Microfilming archaeological archives' IFA paper no.2, Mhairi Handley,
RCHME
Both available from the IFA, but not, unfortunately, on the web as yet.
Longer term there is perhaps a need for a joint ADS / IFA / FISH paper on
digital archiving, but this is a future project.
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