EGAD Resources

Recommended Readings

Introduction to the Experts Group on Archival Description

Gueguen, Gretchen, Manoel Marques da Fonseca, Vitor, Pitti, Daniel and Sibille-de Grimouard, Claire. "Toward an International Conceptual Model for Archival Description: A Preliminary Report from the International Council on Archives’ Experts Group on Archival Description." The American Archivist. Vol. 76, No. 2, 2013. pp 566-583. Document available in english french and arabic at the bottom of page.

Introduction to conceptual models

Noy, Natalya F. and Deborah L. McGuinness. Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology. http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontology-tutorial-noy-mcguinness-abstract.html (en) http://www.bnf.fr/documents/no-DevOnto.pdf (fr)

ICA Standards

Committee on Best Practices and Standards (CBPS). Progress report for revising and harmonizing ICA descriptive standards. (2012) CBPS - Progress report for revising and harmonising ICA descriptive standards (en), CBPS - Rapport d'étape pour la révision et l'harmonisation des normes de description de l'ICA (fr) 

CBPS. Relationship in archival descriptive systems. (2012) CBPS - Relationship in archival descriptive systems (en), CBPS - Les relations dans les systèmes de description archivistiques (fr)

ISAAR (CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, 2nd Edition. (2011) ISAAR (CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, 2nd Edition (en), ISAAR (CPF) : Norme Internationale sur les notices d’autorité utilisées pour les Archives relatives aux collectivités, aux personnes ou aux familles, 2ème édition (fr)

ISDIAH: International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings. (2011) ISDIAH: International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings (en), ISDIAH : Norme internationale pour la description des institutions de conservation des archives (fr)

ISDF: International Standard for Describing Functions. (2011) ISDF: International Standard for Describing Functions (en), ISDF : Norme internationale pour la description des fonctions (fr)

ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description - Second edition. (2011) ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description - Second edition (en), ISAD(G): Norme générale et internationale de description archivistique - Deuxième édition (fr)

Archival conceptual models

CNEDA. Modelo conceptual de descripción archivística y requisitos de datos básicos de las descripciones de documentos de archivo, agentes y funciones. 2012. http://www.mcu.es/archivos/docs/NEDA_MCDA_P1_P2_20120618.pdf (es)

CNEDA. Report on the work of CNEDA (2007-2012): toward a conceptual model for archival description in Spain (July 11, 2012). 2012. http://www.mcu.es/archivos/docs/MC/CNEDA/ReportCNEDA_11_07_2012.pdf (en)

ICA AtoM Entity Model. https://www.ica-atom.org/doc/UM-1.3 (en)

Kilkki, Jaana, Outi Hupaniittu, Pekka Henttonen. Towards the new era of archival description - the Finnish Approach. 2012. http://www.arkisto.fi/uploads/Arkistolaitos/Teht%C3%A4v%C3%A4t%20ja%20toiminta/Hankkeet/AHAA/The%20Finnish%20Conceptual%20Model%20of%20Archival%20Description_text.pdf (en)

LOCAH Project. http://archiveshub.ac.uk/locah/tag/modelling/ (en)

Rubinstein, Aaron. An RDF vocabulary for describing archival collections and the names associated with them. https://github.com/rubinsztajn/archival/blob/master/arch.rdf (en)

Records management standards

Australian Government Recordkeeping Metadata Schema. http://www.naa.gov.au/Images/AGRkMS%20Implementation%20Guidelines_tcm16-50156.pdf (en)

Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Schema. http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/research/groups/rcrg/projects/spirt/deliverables/rkmsgen-tech-intro.pdf (en)

e-GMS-e-Government Metadata Standard Version 3.0 29 April 2004. https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/7271/eGMS%20version%203.pdf (en)

ISO 23081, ISO 15489, ISO 16175 http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_tc_browse.htm?commid=48856

Archives New Zealand. TS: Technical Specifications for Electronic Recordkeeping Metadata Standard. http://archives.govt.nz/ts-technical-specifications-electronic-recordkeeping-metadata-standard (en)

Archival Descriptive Content Standards

Canadian Archives Council. Rules for Archival Description (RAD). http://www.cdncouncilarchives.ca/RAD/RADComplete_July2008.pdf (en) http://www.cdncouncilarchives.ca/RAD/RDDAComplete_July2008.pdf (fr)

Society of American Archivists. Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS). http://files.archivists.org/pubs/DACS-2007.pdf (en)

Archival Communication Standards

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002. http://www.loc.gov/ead/index.html (en) http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/1066 (fr)

Encoded Archival Context-Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF). http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/index.php (en) http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/gerer/classement/normes-outils/eac/ (fr)

Related conceptual models and standards

Official Version of the CIDOC CRM, the version 5.0.4 of the reference document. http://www.cidoc-crm.org/official_release_cidoc.html (en) http://www.cidoc-crm.org/docs/crm_french_version.pdf (fr)

       Official ISO standard version: 21127:2006 Information and documentation -- A
        reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information.
        http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=34424

Europeana Data Model and Primer. http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/900548/770bdb58-c60e-4beb-a687-874639312ba5 (en)

IFLA. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. 2008. http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf (en) http://www.bnf.fr/documents/frbr_rapport_final.pdf (fr)

IFLA Working Group on FRBR/CRM. Draft definition of FRBRoo. http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s13/wgfrbr/FRBRoo_V9.1_PR.pdf (en)

LODE: An ontology for Linking Open Descriptions of Events. http://linkedevents.org/ontology/ (en)

W3C Prov [provenance]. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-overview-20130312/

Additional Readings

Presentations and published works

Angjeli, Anila. "Archives & Linked Open Data: are our tools ready to ‘complete the picture'?"  Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. August 2012. Conference Presentation. http://files.archivists.org/conference/sandiego2012/401-Angjeli.pdf (en)

Harper, Corey A. "Linked Data in Archives: Publish, Enrich, Refine, Reconcile, Relate." Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. August 2012. Conference Presentation. http://files.archivists.org/conference/sandiego2012/401-Harper.pdf (en)

Lee, Christopher A. "A framework for contextual information in digital collections." Journal of Documentation. Vol. 67 No. 1, 2011. pp. 95-143. (en)

McLuhan-Myers, Madeleine. The Archival Web: Contextual Authority Files and the Representation of Institutional Textual Documents in Online Description. MA Thesis. 2012. University of Manitoba. http://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/8464 (en)

Online publications

Les Archiveilleurs. http://www.souslapoussiere.org/archiveilleurs/ (fr)

Further reading on records management and other cultural heritage standards

IFLA Working Group on FRBR/CRM. FRBR/CRM Harmonisation Meetings Consolidated Minutes. http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s13/wgfrbr/FRBRCIDOCCRM_ConsolidatedMinutes.pdf (en)

Technical Implementation Guidelines

Guha, Brickley, D., R.V. RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema. http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/ (en)

Smith, M., Welty C., McGuinness D. OWL Web Ontology Language Guide, W3C Recommendation 10. http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/ (en)