ICA Multilingual Archival Terminology
In 2010, the Section for Archival Education and Training (ICA-SAE) of the ICA embraced the challenge of creating an interactive, online, multilingual archival terminology resource. The project was led by Luciana Duranti at the
University of British Columbia, and was funded by ICA and InterPARES. It is now available as a reference tool for professional archivists and researchers as ICA Multilingual Archival Terminology at:
<http://icarchives.webbler.co.uk/14282/ica-multilingual-archival-terminology/ica-multilingual-archival-terminology.html>
http://icarchives.webbler.co.uk/14282/i ... ology.html The languages now available are: Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Croatian will soon be added. After InterPARES has added interactive functionalities, the ICA Multilingual Archival Terminology will offer ICA members the opportunity to add languages, terms and definitions.
The purpose of the ICA Multilingual Archival Terminology is to support archivists, records managers and information managers in the use of records-related terms, from the traditional ones to those related to the preservation of authentic records in digital systems. Founded on archival,diplomatic and records and information knowledge, the 320 initial terms
express concepts that are central to both the ICA (many of the terms chosen appear in existing ICA dictionaries), and the InterPARES project.
As InterPARES is working on the interactive functionalities of the database, those who are interested in adding languages should contact me at
luciana.duranti@ubc.ca. We have already volunteers for Arabic, Bulgarian, Ebrew, Ukranian, and Afrikaneer English. The database can support any number of languages and any character.
Dr. Luciana Duranti
Chair and Professor | Archival Studies
School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies
The University of British Columbia | The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Phone 604 822 2587 | Fax 604 822 6006
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