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Access to archival material in context

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Fachry, Khairun Nisa Kamps, Jaap Zhang, Junte
Abstract	Archival finding aids are long and complexly structured documents describing archival material---the paper trails of the lives of corporate bodies, persons, and families. Currently, finding aids are encoded in XML using the standard Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and made available to the public on web-sites of archival institutions. But how to provide access to such long and complexly structured documents? On the one hand, users tend to look for specific archival material that may be deeply nested inside the archive. On the other hand, interpreting the meaning of an item is crucially dependent on its context. Using insights from the field of XML retrieval---a subfield of information retrieval that has recently attracted a lot of attention, mainly through the annual evaluation effort in INEX---we developed three different systems for searching in collections of digital finding aids corresponding to three fundamental choices about archival access. The first system provides access to the fonds or archive as a whole; the second system provides direct access to individual archival material at any level of description; the third system retrieves archival material while preserving the original context. This paper reports on the results of an extensive user study with the three systems. Our main finding is that test persons have a preference for the third system that retrieves archival material in their original context, with test persons indicating that the system assisted them in assessing relevancy, navigation and direct access to relevant parts of the finding aids.
Starting Page	102
Ending Page	109
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605583105
DOI	10.1145/1414694.1414718
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2008-10-14
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Xml retrieval Archival finding aids Focused retrieval
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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