TY - JOUR AU - Valacchi, Federico PY - 2021/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - For a hypothesis of metacatalogation JF - Bibliothecae.it JA - BI VL - 10 IS - 1 SE - Notes and discussions DO - 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13077 UR - https://bibliothecae.unibo.it/article/view/13077 SP - 463-487 AB - The contribution starts from the Mauro Guerrini book (Dalla catalogazione alla metadatazione) that he has the definition of metacatalogation wassuggested, as a term containing a series of descriptive phenomena that should make it possible to identify and represent both archives and libraries. Between “cataloging and metadating” the descriptive elements resist. A bibliographic record of a paper catalog consists of a metadata set, just as the elements represented in an archival search tool can be called metadata. For real innovation, the archival inventory must be transformed into an information system, almost a search engine, characterized by specific strategies and filters. The inventory will be in the archive and no longer of the archive even if the contextual elements as a whole must never fail. Information constitutes the essential heritage of any society: the public, civil and political perception of archives and libraries has the task of putting themselves at the service of enlarged communities and processes on a very large range. ER -