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Engineering Utility: A visionary role for encoded archival authority information in managing virtual and physical resources

Gavan McCarthy, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, University of Melbourne, 203 Bouverie Street Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia. gavan@asap.unimelb.edu.au

Keywords

Authority Records, Metadata, World Wide Web, Archives, Heritage, Knowledge Management, Records, Context Entities, SGML/XML

Abstract

The primary focus of this paper relates to initiatives in the heritage industry to capture, structure and use information about 'context entities', formerly known as archival authority records, that is the actors and agents that have played roles, both significant and ordinary, in the evolution of our society. Work in Australia on the HTML encoding of context entities for the World Wide Web has been underway since 1994. Research is now being conducted into the SGML/XML encoding of context entities to radically enhance the utility of these objects in building bridges between the disparate sectors of the heritage industry, not just in Australia but world wide..

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