[ICA-EGAD-RiC] Thank you from EGAD, and going forward

[Pitti, Daniel V. (dvp4c)]

Dear International Archival Community:

EGAD would like to express much gratitude and appreciation to you for having taken the time to review and provide feedback on the draft Records in Contexts conceptual model (RiC-CM), distributed for consultation from September 2016 – January 2017.

In general, the feedback portrayed your positive sentiment and encouragement for EGAD to continue and complete this work. All of your concerns and suggestions will be given serious consideration by EGAD as it moves forward. The continued development of RiC-CM will benefit from your thoughtful contributions, helping to ensure that it responds to and meets your collective needs and expectations.

For your interest, sixty-two individuals, groups, or institutions contributed feedback, representing 19 countries plus two international organizations. When compiled for analysis, this equated to hundreds of pages of comments on numerous aspects of the model. It will take some time for EGAD to work through this feedback, given its extent.

To give credit, as well as to ensure that all feedback has been accounted for, the list of contributors is provided below in rough alphabetical order. This feedback was either posted to this list-serv or emailed to the EGAD mailbox.

EGAD is now working out a strategy for addressing your feedback. One possibility being explored is to address the issues in digest fashion: issues would be grouped by theme as an aid for EGAD to work through them and respond to the community appropriately. Digest ‘updates’ could be posted periodically to this list-serv for your review and comment. As such, your ongoing feedback will help shape the model’s continued development.

The next step is to start creating this digest, to test if this strategy is workable. An initial exercise to organize the feedback by topic/suggestion has already been completed.

We expect to have an update on our strategy in the summer or early fall. Please stay tuned, and comments are always welcome.

Best regards,

The ICA-EGAD Team (egad at ica.org)

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1.     Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, submitted by Nicola Frean, Leader, Arrangement & Description
2.     Archives New Zealand, submitted by Lisa Austin, Manager, Description and Discovery
3.     Archives of Ontario, Canada, submitted by Adam Birrell, Senior Archivist, Collections Development and Management Unit
4.     Archives and Records Association of New Zealand, submitted by Dr. Susan Skudder, Research Librarian, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
5.     Archivists from France, summary of workshops held by Service interministériel des Archives de France; submitted by Hélène Zettel, Adjointe au chef du bureau de l'archivage numérique, des normes et référentiels
6.     Archivists from the United Kingdom, synopsis of a workshop held at Wellcome Trust; submitted by Jenny Bunn, Lecturer and Programme Director, Archives and Records Management, University College London
7.     Artefactual Systems, Canada, submitted by Dan Gillean, AtoM Program Manager
8.     L’Association des archivistes du Québec, Canada, submitted by Carole Saulnier, Présidente
9.     L'Association des archivistes suisses, submitted by Michele Merzaghi, Président du groupe de travail normes et standards de l’Association des archivistes suisses
10.   Australian Society of Archivists, submitted by Julia Mant, President
11.   Greg Bak, Assistant Professor of History (Archival Studies), University of Manitoba, Canada
12.   Charlotte Berry, Hereford Cathedral Archivist, United Kingdom
13.   Brazilian Rio de Janeiro Group and Câmara Técnica de Documentos Eletrônicos of Conselho Nacional de Arquivos, submitted by Vitor Fonesca
14.   British Library, submitted by Alan Danskin, Collection Metadata Standards Manager
15.   Canadian Council of Archives, Canadian Committee on Archival Description (statement only, no comments)
16.   George Charonitis, Archivist, General State Archives of Greece
17.   Comisión de Normas Españolas de Descripción Archivística, Spain, submitted by the Secretary
18.   Margaret Crockett, Consultant Archivist and Records Manager, United Kingdom
19.   Vivienne Cuff, New Zealand (personal comments)
20.   Department of Information Studies, University College London (Jenny Bunn, Geoffrey Yeo), United Kingdom
21.   Discussion Group on Archival Description (Japan), submitted by Izumi Hirano, Archivist, Research Center for Cooperative Civil Societies, Rikkyo University
22.   Teresa Doherty, Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom
23.   Beat Estermann (Bern University of Applied Sciences), Christian Schneeberger (Swiss Theatre Collection), Switzerland
24.   Cassie Findlay, Australia
25.   Flemish Library and Archives Association; Branch Association of Dutch Archival Institutions; Royal Society of Archivists in the Netherlands; submitted by Filip Boudrez, City Archives of Antwerp
26.   Chris Hurley, Australia
27.   InterPARES Trust, submitted by Dr. Luciana Duranti, Project Director
28.   Italian archival community, represented by Associazione nazionale archivistica italiana and the Italian Institute for the archives, submitted by Mariella Guercio
29.   Silke Jagodzinski (The Federal Archives) and Gerhard Mueller (Berlin State Library), Germany (personal comments)
30.   Andrew Janes, United Kingdom (personal comments)
31.   Mike Jones, University of Melbourne, Australia
32.   Prof. Dr. Christian Keitel, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Germany
33.   Aránzazu Lafuente Urién, Directora del Archivo Histórico de la Nobleza, Spain
34.   Library and Archives Canada, submitted by Kat Timms, Information Standards Specialist
35.   John Machin, Information Architect - Records Interoperability Framework, Department of Finance, Australia
36.   William J. Maher, University Archivist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
37.   Ana Márcia Lutterbach Rodrigues, Brasil
38.   Cindy McLellan, Archivist, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada
39.   Solène Michon, Chef du service finances, agriculture, environnement, aménagement et culture, Archives départementales de l'Hérault, France
40.   Laura Millar, Canada
41.   Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych (Polish State Archives), submitted by Dr. Bartosz Nowożycki
42.   National Archives of Australia, submitted by Linda Macfarlane, Director, Policy and Digital Strategy
43.   National Archives of Finland, submitted by Jaana Kilkki, Director of Collections Management Division
44.   The National Archives, United Kingdom, submitted by Jone Garmendia, Head of Cataloguing
45.   Public Record Office Victoria, Australia, submitted by Andrew Waugh
46.   Arian Rajh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Croatian Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices, Crotia
47.   Barbara Reed, Director, Recordkeeping Innovation Pty Ltd, Australia
48.   Resource Description and Access Steering Committee, submitted by Gordon Dunsire, Chair
49.   Pat Riva, Canada (personal comments)
50.   Michael Rush, Assistant Head of the Manuscript Unit, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, United States of America
51.   Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, United States of America, submitted by Regine Heberlein, Principal Cataloger and Metadata Analyst
52.   Simmons Metadata Inquiry Lab: RiC Discussion Group, Simmons College, United States of America, submitted by Michelle Janowiecki, Archives Graduate Student
53.   Ross Spencer, New Zealand (personal comments)
54.   Society of American Archivists, submitted by Rebecca A. Wiederhold, Archives & Manuscripts Catalog Librarian, Brigham Young University, United States of America, on behalf of Society of American Archivists Standards Committee
55.   Society of American Archivists Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard, submitted by Adriane Hanson, Digital Curation and Processing Archivist, University of Georgia, United States of America
56.   Society of American Archivists, Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards, submitted by Anila Angjeli, Département des métadonnées, Bibliothèque nationale de France
57.   Standards Australia Committee IT-021 Records and document management systems, submitted by Barbara Reed, Chair
58.   Kenneth Thibodeau, United States of America
59.   Kat Timms, Canada (personal comments)
60.   Joris Vanderborght, Archivist of the House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament of the Kingdom of Belgium
61.   Verband Österreichischer Archivarinnen und Archivare, Austria, submitted by Thomas Maisel, Sekretär
62.   Wellcome Collection, submitted by Dr. Christopher Hilton, Data Architect - Wellcome Library, United Kingdom

Note: In some cases an institutional affiliation was not provided, or some commenters specifically indicated that their comments were personal in nature and did not represent the views of their institution.