Levéltári Közlemények, 93. (2022)

Angol nyelvű összefoglalók

ANGOL NYELVŰ ÖSSZEFOGLALÓK ENGLISH ABSTRACTS OF THE PAPERS

Zsolt István Bánki

NAMESPACES

AS SOURCES OF AUTHENTIC KNOWLEDGE - PRESENTATION OF THE NAMESPACE PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF HUNGARY

In international professional practice, the use of specialised systems is becoming more and more common, the basic purpose of which is to register the entities recorded in the system as being identical to themselves, unmistakably unique, by recording the name variants associated with the entity. These systems are referred to in domestic practice as namespaces. The so-called GTAM (Gallery, Library, Archives, Museum) sector, as one of the most important institutional users of namespaces, uses mostly namespaces of the personal, family, corporate, event, geographical and common name types. Individual memory institutions either build such a service within their own collection management systems or use stand-alone namespaces that are built independently of the collection. Although the National Archives of Hungary already used namespaces, it has decided to develop a renewed complex namespace system, the first element of which is a geographical namespace. The concept is based on redundantly juxtaposing several geographic name sets in a way that preserves their integrity and original contexts as fully as possible. At the same time, the system remains open to the inclusion of additional data sources. In the new system, original namespace holdings “of the National Archives of Hungary” will be extended, modified and enriched, and external, compact data sources will be kept in their validated units, with the option to update the holdings from time to time. At the same time we will create an expression of identity of entities. The prospective namespace will provide credible data, serve as an independent entry and search point into databases, be integrated into the collection management system, make the described data part of formalised (even remote) searches. At the same time, it provides the possibility of sharing. Tinks can be established with other namespaces, institutions, thus increasing the search efficiency and the range of resources.

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