...Nkholedzeni Sidney Netshakhuma Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the state of appraisal with regard to compliance with archives and records management legislations (ARML), the archives and records management policy (ARMP), reappraisal of records, capacity building, archives...

... is a multiple case study comparing the previously advantaged and disadvantaged universities in South Africa. Findings The study found that archives and records management legislation, archives and records management policy, re-appraisal of records, capacity building are essential for the appraisal...

...Shadrack Katuu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine user studies as well as user education within the context of public services offered by archival institutions. It highlighted some of the key aspects that constitute both concepts drawing from history in order to provide a better...

... (United Nations Archives and Records Management Section, 2006). In another definition, digitization is conversion of data in unconfigured form that cannot be detected by electronic systems into the configured form that can be detected in the electronic environment (Rieger, 2008). On the other hand...

... are available. The average half‐life for the medical journals is estimated to be 1.02 years. Practical implications To increase the rate of URLs availability, publishers should oblige authors to utilize online archives such as WebCite to preserve expected information for all of the citations referred...

... communities in developing countries. The paper aims to introduce OntOAIr, a semi‐automatic method for constructing lightweight ontologies of documents in repositories such as those provided by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). Design/methodology/approach OntOAIr uses simplified document representations...

...Shirley Lim; Chern Li Liew Purpose This study aims to explore how metadata have been applied in GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) institutions in New Zealand (NZ) and to analyse its overall quality with the interoperability of the metadata element set especially in mind. Design...

...Jeroen Bekaert; Dimitri Van De Ville; Boris Rogge; Iwan Strauven; Emiel De Kooning; Rik Van de Walle 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...