Archival standards, in archival open access software And offer appropriate software for internal archival centers

Izadi, Abdolreza; Nakhoda, Maryam

doi:10.35050/JIPM010.2016.023

Archival standards, in archival open access software And offer appropriate software for internal archival centers

Authors

Abdolreza Izadi

Maryam Nakhoda

10.35050/JIPM010.2016.023

Abstract

The purpose of this study is Study of Descriptive Metadata Standards in Archival open source software, to determine the most appropriate descriptive metadata standard (s) and also Encoder Software support of these standards. The approach of present study is combination and library methods, Delphi and descriptive survey are used. Data gathering in library study is fiche, in the Delphi method is questionnaire and in descriptive survey is checklist. Statistical population contains 5 Archival open source software. The findings suggest that 5 metadata standards, consist of EAD, ISAD, EAC-CPF, ISAAR & ISDF, diagnosed appropriate by Delphi Panel members as the most appropriate descriptive metadata standards to use for archival software. Moreover, ICA-ATOM and Archivist toolkit in terms of support for standards that were suitable, diagnosed as the most appropriate archival software.

Keywords

Metadata

descriptive metadata standards

descriptive resource standards archival open source software