Description: Renowned authority Luciana Duranti, examines the organizational and evaluative effectiveness of diplomatic concepts in the context of modern records and archival systems, and looks at the relationship between originality and authenticity in records.
Brief description: Dr. Luciana Duranti, a graduate of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, is Professor Emerita of archival science and diplomatics in the School of Information of the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada, and Affiliate Full Professor at the University of Washington at Seattle, United States. She started her career as Archivista di Stato at the State Archives of Rome in 1978. In 1982, she became Ricercatore in Archivistica at the Sapienza University of Rome, until she moved to UBC in 1987 as a Professor in the newly minted Master of Archival Studies.
Review Quotes:
"Duranti's diplomatics-based approach to the analysis of records is an important strand of research, especially in the context of electronic records...this book provides an excellent, theoretical, starting point." --Journal Of The Society Of Archivists
"This book, in bringing the fullness of diplomatic ideas to our attention and in English, is a valuable service to many groups because diplomatics transcends disciplinary boundaries....deserves to be the cornerstone in the archivist's library, and should have an important place in the working libraries of historians and knowledge engineers." --Archivaria "Investigates the origin, development, and application of diplomatic concepts and examines their effectiveness as concepts to organize and evaluate modern records and archival systems." --Reference and Research Book News