Visualising the Multiplicity of Relationships - ICA-SUV Conference, Barbados 2013

Make relationships visible,Give relation-directed access

Decontextualisation – Recontextualisation I

Decontextualisation – Recontextualisation II

Relationships of Entities

Framework for Recontextualisation

Multiplicity of Relationships

• Relationships / Context / Provenance• Four Domain Model:

– Organisational relationships– Functional relationships– Relationships in documenting– Relationships in recordkeeping

• „Not all processes result in documents; not all documents are captured by the recordkeeping system.“ (J. Papritz)

Compiling Documentary Units

• Documentary Unit = Representation of one or more selected relationships

• Consisting on grouped digital images• To be defined as an entity through METS

Enriching with User Generated Content

• Identifying documentary units needs technic tools

• Provide tools for flexible METS encoding• Identifying units needs descriptive tools• Identifying units needs encoding tools

Descriptive Tools

• Goal: Identifying relationships in documents‘ descriptions– EAD: <origination type=„cpf“>

• Organisational provenance

– EAD: <origination type=„funact“>• Functional provenance

• Goal: Describing relationships through authority records– EAC-CPF: cpf– EAC-F: functions, activities …

EAD Provenance – File Level

Functions of a University

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