As proclaims the title of this article, boiling or agitated state, is considered an inherent property of the concern for learning and discovering all the file can still offer. This statement applies to the incipient and hard work of file you are conducting the Ateneo de Madrid to recover historical memory from a retrospective search through the daily press clippings from 1835 (date of founding of the Ateneo) until now.
Ateneo De entry
Obviously one of the first questions that arise when focusing an article of this kind is to place the reader in relation to the nature of an institution of tradition and prestige of the Ateneo de Madrid. In fact, the University played an important role in the creation of the first republic and therefore the political life of early twentieth century and in the cultural, literary, intellectual and artistic life of Spain. There are many literary generations that have watched their statues, frescoes and shelves, read the generation of 98, 14 and 27 which constitute the rebirth of modern English literature from the very enlightened golden age. Currently
Ateneo de Madrid hosts a number of events cultural, artistic and literary work about developing a critical and open mind favored by traditional coffee gatherings, conferences, seminars and presentations of new publications on the past, present and future scientific landscape, social, political and artistic in our country. In fact few differences would meet to try to compare with the CĂrculo de Bellas Artes in their usual activities and services are concerned.
In front of the file are Clara Herrera Tejada, Fernando Olivera Sigler and Mary Silvera Zaldivar, with He Documentalist Bold has had the privilege of talking, interviewing and sharing the odd coffee. During these talks, we explained the situation and process that is currently the archival work and the near future short and medium term. Here are some of the most interesting impressions.
staff members of the University Archive. From left to right Maria Olivera, Fernando Herrera Sigler and Clara. The objective of this team is the recovery of historical memory and hence the Ateneo de Madrid, but was operated between 1939 and 1946, as explained in this monograph published by the Athens itself in 2008 largely lost its documentation, be impossible to trace except for the news of the daily press. And this is precisely the first step that is taking place. In fact this implies recovery, digitization and description of those documents, which are clear testimony of the events in such turbulent periods such as the loss of the last English colonies overseas in 1898, the first years of the twentieth century with the dictatorship of Primo Rivera and the republican period, through the civil war, the postwar transition to democracy.
chain documentary focuses on the review of the archive to get all related articles which you can remove any activity or event in which the University has played a direct or indirect. This means getting any news that relates to their members and posts and therefore an important part of the history of Spain. These clippings are scanned in high resolution, including text, photos and contexts to be properly registered and described successively.
future Example clipping, as stated in the section "Notes Graphic Madrid" in the newspaper "Now."
The description of the cuts press focuses on her exact date of publication, year, month and day of articles, personal authorities, public, private, historical events and places that are developed through emptying. These issues are systematically captured with a model for archival description ISAD-G as a digitized code, easy access to the user. Finally
also noted the need to prepare in the future in the medium and long term, a functional classification scheme in order to collect the current roles and administrative, and cultural life of the institution with the series that most often are usually consulted and hence demand, such as correspondence, records of cultural activities and outreach, publications, monographs, interviews, lectures, talks, administrative documentation, personnel, accounting, etc..
chain documentary focuses on the review of the archive to get all related articles which you can remove any activity or event in which the University has played a direct or indirect. This means getting any news that relates to their members and posts and therefore an important part of the history of Spain. These clippings are scanned in high resolution, including text, photos and contexts to be properly registered and described successively.
future Example clipping, as stated in the section "Notes Graphic Madrid" in the newspaper "Now." The description of the cuts press focuses on her exact date of publication, year, month and day of articles, personal authorities, public, private, historical events and places that are developed through emptying. These issues are systematically captured with a model for archival description ISAD-G as a digitized code, easy access to the user. Finally
also noted the need to prepare in the future in the medium and long term, a functional classification scheme in order to collect the current roles and administrative, and cultural life of the institution with the series that most often are usually consulted and hence demand, such as correspondence, records of cultural activities and outreach, publications, monographs, interviews, lectures, talks, administrative documentation, personnel, accounting, etc..
A cutting-edge technology: Archon
One of the reasons that the archival work at the Ateneo de Madrid is in turmoil is precisely because the file management tool to use, pioneering with the Ateneo Barcelona, \u200b\u200bin implementing the program Archon.
Archon is one of the most versatile tools currently in network. This is free software developed by the University of Illinois , for file management while responding to a purely Anglo-American specifications, may be adapted to European needs and English specifically for the management of certain files, like those of historical character and even administrative. It is important to remember that is in conformity with international standards for archival description, ISAD-G Standards and ISAAR-CPF system and electronic description EAD and MARC , making it very useful in the management of content and export cataloging. It also allows the creation of a functional classification scheme perfectly adaptable to any hierarchy and numbering complicated it may be, subject allocation to producers and relations description of dependent documents. All these features coupled with the relative simplicity of installation on an Apache server with standard settings, makes a strong commitment to facing major proprietary software applications as may be Albalá .
While all this is laudable, not everything is perfect in Archon, since in any case is complete replacement of integrated the life cycle of the record in regard to the English archival system within the public administration. Imperatives are other problems associated with maintaining the transfer process, transfer schedules, procedures for weeding and some considerations for the presentation of information in the classification. That said, understanding these considerations really is true that is helping to develop archival-documentary projects with relative ease and which can then be enjoyed under the English archival tradition.
Given this, the team from the University Archive with great effort and commitment has been able to develop a lightweight, reliable code using a basically chronological classification scheme for this first stage of development. In a second phase, the table will coexist with the final functional picture of the institution, leaving the history of the institution fully integrated and harmonized.
A promising work
An essential work of archival description is exhaustive collection of all content and points of access to information in documentary unit. In fact they say that the purpose of all the work is to allow later retrieval ergo if recoverable is accessible and available. If the documentation is completed and concentrating on losing a pile of boxes forgotten in some attic.
To check the quality of work that is taking place, I had the opportunity to see exclusive, the chances of file recovery in the Ateneo de Madrid by Archon system and I can say that the results were excellent both in depth responses as the response time and accuracy of results. This is due to complete work on the identification of authorities and chronological arrangement allowing consultations including full-time factor, related authority, Indeed, activity, event, publication and context. This means you can retrieve comprehensively all existing information, for example, on the relationship of a literary author as D. Miguel de Unamuno and the University as a chronological account with access to sources and documents. As in this hypothetical example proceeds to a recovery from a noted authority, can be filtered from activities that might develop in the institution, so the range of possibilities is very broad access.
The first results of the project will not be seen until the September-October 2009, after which time be publicly accessible archive the new website of the Ateneo de Madrid, left open for consultation digitized. Until then, waiting impatiently for that moment.
Finally, I thank again the kindness of Clara Herrera, Fernando Olivera Sigler and Mary for your attention and good work at this company. I sincerely wish you the best and success eventually culminate in all your endeavors.
Finally, I thank again the kindness of Clara Herrera, Fernando Olivera Sigler and Mary for your attention and good work at this company. I sincerely wish you the best and success eventually culminate in all your endeavors.
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