Archival Representation

• Published in: Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory p. 151
• Main Author: Elizabeth Yakel
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• 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
• DOI: 10.3998/mpub.93171.19
• ISBN: 047211493X; 9780472114931

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