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Metadata‐based access to multimedia architectural and historical archive collections: a review

Jeroen Bekaert (Department of Electronics and Information Systems (Multimedia Lab), at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. (jeroen.bekaert@rug.ac.be))
Dimitri Van De Ville (Department of Electronics and Information Systems (Multimedia Lab), at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. (dimitri.vandeville@rug.ac.be))
Boris Rogge (Department of Electronics and Information Systems (Multimedia Lab), at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. (boris.rogge@rug.ac.be))
Iwan Strauven (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. (iwan.strauven@rug.ac.be))
Emiel De Kooning (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. (emiel.dekooning@rug.ac.be))
Rik Van de Walle (Department of Electronics and Information Systems (Multimedia Lab), at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. (rik.vandewalle@rug.ac.be))

Aslib Proceedings

ISSN: 0001-253X

Article publication date: 1 December 2002

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Abstract

This review is a summary of the state‐of‐the‐art for those who have not been intimately dealing with the evolution of digital archives. At the same time this survey will be a useful resource and starting point for archivists, librarians and technicians, who are becoming involved in institutional digitization projects. It presents a brief overview of what is meant by a digital library and a digital archive, and how archival collections can be described. It expresses briefly the different approaches to collections and their descriptions and suggests that a consistent approach to descriptions at collection and item level is an important factor in initiatives which seek to provide integrated access to distributed resources, whether those resources are traditional or digital.

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Bekaert, J., Van De Ville, D., Rogge, B., Strauven, I., De Kooning, E. and Van de Walle, R. (2002), "Metadata‐based access to multimedia architectural and historical archive collections: a review", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 54 No. 6, pp. 362-371. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012530210452564

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