Comments for LiAM: Linked Archival Metadata http://sites.tufts.edu/liam Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:48:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Prospectus for Linked Archival Metadata: A Guidebook by “Prospectus for Linked Archival Metadata: A Guidebook”, Comments Welcome | LJ INFOdocket http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/deliverables/prospectus-for-linked-archival-metadata-a-guidebook/#comment-18 “Prospectus for Linked Archival Metadata: A Guidebook”, Comments Welcome | LJ INFOdocket Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:48:50 +0000 http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/?page_id=71#comment-18 [...] Prospectus for Linked Archival Metadata: A Guidebook was first announced two weeks ago by Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives. [...]

]]> Comment on Use Cases by Deborah Kaplan http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/deliverables/use-cases/#comment-17 Deborah Kaplan Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:30:02 +0000 http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/?page_id=85#comment-17 @Skip, excellent point. Social media/Internet identities in general are all over the place. I’m just imagining trying to link the history of, well, me over the years: a number of e-mail addresses, twitter identities, blog identities, openID, etc. Of course doing such a thing opens up some interesting archival ethical questions. In many Internet subcultures there a reasonable concept of an open secret connecting somebody’s legal name with an Internet identity name. Presumably archival ethics would emphasize the “secret” part rather than the “open”whenever possible and avoid linking. Huh, thought-provoking.

@Kate, definitely true! And an important thing to track.

@Julianna, indeed, and there are other name changes to track as well, such as people who take Western names when they change countries, etc.

]]> Comment on Deliverables by Anne Sauer http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/deliverables/#comment-15 Anne Sauer Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:11:11 +0000 http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/?page_id=25#comment-15 Chaker, thank you for your interest in the Guidebook, which is still in development. It will be posted here when it is ready to be released in full.

]]> Comment on Prospectus for Linked Archival Metadata: A Guidebook by Anne Sauer http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/deliverables/prospectus-for-linked-archival-metadata-a-guidebook/#comment-14 Anne Sauer Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:09:40 +0000 http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/?page_id=71#comment-14 Aimee, thanks for your interest in the Guidebook. The full Guidebook is not yet available, but will be posted here when it is ready. In the meantime, we welcome any comments or suggestions on the outline for what will be included in the Guidebook.

]]> Comment on Use Cases by Skip Kendall http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/deliverables/use-cases/#comment-13 Skip Kendall Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:58:15 +0000 http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/?page_id=85#comment-13 Email addresses are another interesting point of convergence/divergence. Multiple aliases for the same email account may exist simultaneously, one person may have many email accounts.

]]> Comment on Use Cases by Kate Bowers http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/deliverables/use-cases/#comment-12 Kate Bowers Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:55:25 +0000 http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/?page_id=85#comment-12 How about linking by function? Responsibility and authority for a particular administrative function may move from one office to another. For example, student discipline may move from a President’s office to a Dean of a school, to the Dean of Students, and then to a disciplinary board.

]]> Comment on Scattered Records of a Community Organization by Kate Bowers http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/deliverables/use-cases/scattered-records-of-a-community-organization/#comment-11 Kate Bowers Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:50:07 +0000 http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/?page_id=96#comment-11 This is a great idea: collocating by geographic location and community.

I’m wondering though: Should this heading be characterized as “Scattered Records of a Community” since you are talking about multiple organizations and people rather than scattered records of a single organization?

]]> Comment on Use Cases by Juliana Kuipers http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/deliverables/use-cases/#comment-10 Juliana Kuipers Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:45:07 +0000 http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/?page_id=85#comment-10 Because women may change their names more frequently than men in Western culture, this project will be particularly helpful in connect collections that may end up being un-connected due to different names for the same person. An interesting example of scattered collections that would have been brought together are the William Cameron Blackett personal archive at the Harvard University Archives with two collections of papers of his daughter (Priscilla Blackett Dewey Houghton) described as the Priscilla B. Dewey papers at the Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library and the papers of Priscilla Dewey Houghton at the Schlesinger Library.

]]> Comment on Record Creators with Multiple Roles by Ginny Hunt http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/deliverables/use-cases/record-creators-with-multiple-roles/#comment-9 Ginny Hunt Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:36:02 +0000 http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/?page_id=94#comment-9 Are you going to include a use case with an example that has a person with roles at multiple institutions?

For example: James Bryant Conant as President of Harvard University, a chemistry professor at Harvard University, US Ambassador to Germany and Head of Educational Testing Service. More information: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua08998

This is such a wonderful project, I’d hate to miss the opportunity to exploit it in these situations.

]]> Comment on Prospectus for Linked Archival Metadata: A Guidebook by Sally Fellows http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/deliverables/prospectus-for-linked-archival-metadata-a-guidebook/#comment-8 Sally Fellows Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:51:44 +0000 http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/?page_id=71#comment-8 I would be interested in seeing the Guidebook for the Manchester, New Hampshire City Archives.

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