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Over the past few weeks I have worked and posted my way through definitions and explanations of some of the key concepts that are relevant to my research into archives access systems. I have compacted and combined each of these definitions into a working glossary that will be part of my system design and requirements [...]

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Last week my friend and colleague Ian McAndrew humoured me by reviewing my definition of archival materials. Ian’s sharp mind immediately picked up on a couple of potential cracks in my definition and examples.
In particular, he pointed out that I needed to make an explicit link between preservation and access and he is absolutely [...]

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From a theoretical point of view there is no difference between a digital and an analogue information object. As I explained in previous posts about the concept of information and information objects, both are entities that contains the content of a message and have the required structure and context to allow that message to be [...]

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Last week I wrote a post that looked in more detail at the concept of information as a way to help define archival materials. I am going through this process of definitions and explanations to help establish the scope and context for my PhD research on archives access systems. These software-intensive systems provide online users [...]

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Last week, I posted an access-based definition for the concept of archival materials to help establish the scope and context of my research into archives access systems.
Like most definitions in the archives and records management literature, it leans heavily on the concept of information. However, this term is seldom defined further. It is usually expected [...]

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Yesterday I posted and explained a practical definition for archival materials that works within the scope and context of my research on archives access systems: “archival materials are objects in any form that record information which is preserved for future use as a memory aid or proxy for a past event.” The broad nature of [...]

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In my PhD research I am investigating the nature of archives access systems and the enabling technologies and practices that can be used to improve these.
I am currently in the process of establishing the scope and context for my investigation. This requires that a number of key concepts are defined so that I am using [...]

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Since I started my blog (late October 2005) I had been successful in posting about once a week. However, an entire month and a half has now gone by since my last blog entry.
If I thought that I actually had regular readers I would make an apology for the radio silence. However, I [...]

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The research methodology that I will use falls roughly within the post-positivist school which combines both quantitative and qualitative methods to test deductive hypotheses which are refined over the course of the research as data is collected, analyzed and interpreted.

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The theoretical framework for my research is Archival Science which “studies the characteristics of records in their social and cultural contexts and how they are created, used, selected and transferred through time.” (1)

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