A tower of babel: Standardizing archival terminology Export

@article{citeulike:1901069, abstract = {Abstract\ \ Repeated calls to standardize archival terminology have long characterized the archival literature. This paper first looks at the characteristics of a profession, the place of terminology in the context of a body of professional knowledge, and the development of archival principles, before examining international and national efforts to develop standardized vocabularies. The paper concludes with an examination of the difficulties in standardizing archival terminology, and discusses suggestions in the most recent literature that some of these difficulties may be overcome with new approaches such as an increased understanding of cultural warrant, exploration of the possibilities of contextual terminology, a better understanding of the processes of standards development, and adoption of the methods of experts in terminology.}, author = {Dryden, Jean}, citeulike-article-id = {1901069}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02510902}, day = {16}, doi = {10.1007/BF02510902}, journal = {Archival Science}, month = {March}, number = {1}, pages = {1--16}, posted-at = {2007-11-12 03:44:09}, priority = {2}, title = {A tower of babel: Standardizing archival terminology}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02510902}, volume = {5}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1901069 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1901069 N2 - Abstract  Repeated calls to standardize archival terminology have long characterized the archival literature. This paper first looks at the characteristics of a profession, the place of terminology in the context of a body of professional knowledge, and the development of archival principles, before examining international and national efforts to develop standardized vocabularies. The paper concludes with an examination of the difficulties in standardizing archival terminology, and discusses suggestions in the most recent literature that some of these difficulties may be overcome with new approaches such as an increased understanding of cultural warrant, exploration of the possibilities of contextual terminology, a better understanding of the processes of standards development, and adoption of the methods of experts in terminology. IS - 1 JF - Archival Science EP - 16 TI - A tower of babel: Standardizing archival terminology VL - 5 SP - 1 AU - Dryden, Jean PY - 2005/03/16/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02510902 ER -