The Horn of Africa Research and Knowledge Exchange Platform :HAREP

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Today there is an increasing amount of metadata that archivists need to be aware of thanks in large part to the multitude of digital projects going on around the world. Some of these metadata standards archivist should at least have a working knowledge of include the emerging Encoded Archival Description standard, the Encoded Archival Context standard, and several others including TEI (Text Encoding Initiative,) MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) and METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard.) Archivists can no longer afford to hide behind their proverbial stacks of paper, but need instead to embrace these new standards, take a proactive stance and pursue these standards to the best of their intellectual ability through whatever means is available to them. The more archivists know about these standards the more comfortable they will be in the digital environment....'Introduction'

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