Archival Representation

InThe Design of Everyday ThingsDonald Norman argues for a user-centered approach to the design of the daily artifacts we take for granted.¹ While archives and archival collections are not everyday things for most people, they do document everyday things, and the archivist’s representations and repre...

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Published inArchives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory p. 151
Main Author Elizabeth Yakel
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Michigan Press 02.03.2011
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Archival cataloging
Archives
Archivists
Behavioral sciences
Card catalogs
Cataloging
Collection management
Cultural anthropology
Cultural institutions
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
Information management
Information professionals
Information representations
Information resources
Information science
Labor economics
Libraries
Library collections
Library equipment
Library management
Library operations
Library science
Occupations
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Summary:InThe Design of Everyday ThingsDonald Norman argues for a user-centered approach to the design of the daily artifacts we take for granted.¹ While archives and archival collections are not everyday things for most people, they do document everyday things, and the archivist’s representations and representational systems must characterize these everyday things for potential researchers.² The term “representation” is used to refer both to the process or activity of representing and to the object(s) produced by an instance of that activity. The process of representing seeks to establish systematic correspondence between the target domain and the modeling domain and
ISBN:047211493X
9780472114931
DOI:10.3998/mpub.93171.19