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This is a talk that I gave at the Radcliffe Workshop on Technology and Archival Processing on April 3, 2014. I hope you enjoy what I had to say. I think it dovetails nicely with the work the four o…
Would Susan Sontag have wanted her life and computer files analyzed like this? Would anyone?
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History, archives and the problem with treating every problem as a tech problem.
Thanks to friends, I got a hold of some documents posted by the North Carolina Genealogical Society, that are integral to the story of the destroyed records in Franklin County. I am reposting those…
A good catalogue is transparent: if a library user becomes aware in more than a passing fashion of the technicalities of the catalogue, it is usually a sign tha
"This article explores the idea of coupling robust collection-level descriptions to mass digitization and optical character recognition to provide full-text search of unprocessed and backlogged modern collections, bypassing archival processing and the creation of finding aids."
This is the presentation given at MARAC Fall 2013 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, detailing the development of xEAC, an open source XForms-based framework for c…
XForms-based tool for getting data into EAC-CPF. Interacts with some LD stores to add URIs to records where available. From the numismatists.
Tag library and other documentation for EAD.
Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) is an output-neutral set of rules for describing archives, personal papers, and manuscript collections, and can be applied to all material types. It is the U.S. implementation of international standards (i.e., ISAD[G] and ISAAR[CPF]) for the description of archival materials and their creators.
by Gabriela Redwine, Megan Barnard, Kate Donovan, Erika Farr, Michael Forstrom, Will Hansen, Jeremy Leighton John, Nancy Kuhl, Seth Shaw, and Susan Thomas October 2013. 28 pp. $0 ISBN 978-1-932326-46-8 CLIR pub 159 PDF download of report (768 KB) >> PDF of cover >>PDF of report and cover combined >> Read Japanese translation (courtesy Seigakuin Read More