Study On History Archives Network Access

With the development of technology, there is a growing emphasis on information accession and use. History archives which are records of human history are important public information resources. The public have rights to know the public information and ask to have equal opportunities to access information, which forces the archivists to break the old idea of "highly keeping but lowly utilized" and to explore the new model of accessing to history archives. The development of networks significantly accelerated the speed of information dissemination, and expanded the scope of information dissemination, which also provide the best platform for the archivists to exploit historical archives. At the same time, OAI which based on free and open principles, advocates use of the network platform, can transfer the information of different disciplines and in different fields efficiently without any obstacles, has brought new inspiration for the sharing of archives resources. The concept of OAI meets the requirement of the history archives with the help of Internet to enhance the efficiency of development and utilization of history archives so as to realize the value of the performance, and establish the theoretical foundation for network access of history archives.Firstly, this paper states the theoretical and practical significance of research, and studies the use of historical archives related concepts and theories to tamp theoretical basis, at the end of this part reviewed the domestic and foreign correlation research.Secondly, I have investigated the 33 archive websites which are at or above the provincial level to learn about the status of network services of our history archives in our country, from search form, search depth and search scope the site provided and interoperability between sites to investigate the situation. Through extensive research, utilization and construction status of the history archives network were understood and the existing problems and possible causes are analyzed. Then the necessity and feasibility of network access history archives are demonstrated.Thirdly, this paper studies of the principles and methods of network access to history archives. On the basis of analysing the feasibility of OA used in network access to history archives to build a share framework of historical archives network based on OAI-PMH, the aim is to provide the public a new way to use search engines to get network resources. By studying Data Provider module, Service Provider module and registration module of the historical archives and the structure and function of each module, the overall framework of network access to history archives are established. This framework can integrate resources of our country's history archives and get rid of time and space restrictions to provide users with convenient and efficient information service.Finally, to assure the network access to history archives, this research gives some advice mainly from the policy, fund, technology to archivists for recommendations. History archives network access is a complex system which needs national policies, standards, laws and regulations to guide and regulate. Construction of digital archives mainly rely on government financial allocations, but the social resources are also needed to actively mobilized to increase the funds. At the same time, archives departments also need to explore the social value of history archives and translate it into economic value. According to the actual needs, this paper proposes education reform ideas and explored the archivists training programs. The construction of infrastructure, network security and other technical issues which are related to network access should cooperate with universities, research institutes, professional firms who has maturity technical to improve efficiency and quality of the and the project of history archives network access.