Using the Ancient Petitions (SC8) a collection of documents housed in the UK National Archives (TNA) as the case study, this dissertation proposes an open-access Resource Description Framework (RDF) structured by integrating a hybrid of traditional analytic descriptions from cod…
Although the introduction of emerging technologies has enhanced the position and value of culture within societies, it has also started a conversation on the need to preserve and protect the same- particularly during times of rapid change and development. The need to remember th…
This purpose of this dissertation is to provide critics with an answer to the information quality deficit dilemma that impedes civic discourse. Political deliberation in the wake of September 11 demonstrates the severity of this purpose. The theory of deliberative criticism prop…
Personal records have long occupied a complicated space within archival theory and practice. The archival profession, as it is practiced in the United States today, developed with organizational records, such as those created by governments and businesses, in mind. Personal reco…