The author visited Canada during March 2010 to study Canadian Archival system especially records management in archives in Ontario province; the driving rationale for the study was the realization that there existed very less or no archives and record management program in India. This study intends to report different types of archives and record management (ARM) programs in Canada, with specia...

Humans design, operate and are the net beneficiaries of most systems. However humans are fallible and make mistakes. At the same time humans are adaptable and resourceful in both designing systems and correcting them when they go wrong. These characteristics mean that humans can be both the strongest and the weakest link in system security. The aim of this paper is to look at how industrial con...

The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is a new project to build a worldwide system of federated language archives based on the Open Archives Initiative and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. This paper aims to disseminate the OLAC vision to the language resources community in Asia, and to show language technologists and linguists how they can document their tools and data in such a way ...

Many high quality, open access scholarly journals have been published on the Web. However, many of them do not offer a search program to find articles in their article archive. They provide access only via browsing through/digging down the volumes, issues, and table of content pages. Archives of many other open access scholarly journals do offer search options, but these have often very limited...

Within the context of DLs, we are making information objects Òfirst-class citizensÓ. We decouple information objects from the systems used for their storage and retrieval, allowing the technology for both DLs and information content to progress independently. We feel that dismantling the current stovepipe of ÒDL-archive-contentÓ is the first step in both building richer DL experiences for users...

The impact of computerization on archival finding aids: a RAMP study / prepared by Christopher Kitching [for the] General Information Programme and UNISIST. PREFACE In order to aid Member States, particularly developing countries, to meet their needs in the specialized areas of Archives Administration and Records Managemant, the Division of the General Information Programme has developed a long...