Design and Development of Database for Church Archival Materials (DOCCAM Package) In India

Abstract

This paper deals with the aspects relating to design and development of database for records maintained in the Church Archives. Creation of Computerized database would facilitate for the effective bibliographic organisation of the information materials. It provides a means for the retrieval of the valuable information stored in the archives and have an easy access to the archival materials for research scholars, historians and church personnel etc. Therefore in this paper an attempt has been made, to create a database for Church archival material based on the guidelines suggested by Cook and Proctor in the work entitled ‘Manual of Archival Description (MAD2).