Archival Description
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Archival Description


The latest issue of OCLC Systems & Services v. 18 no. 3 (2002) has an introduction to archival description. "Archival description and finding aids" by Randall C Jimerson.

The issue also has articles on Dublin Core, CatExpress, scanning catalog cards, and cataloging and processing of three-dimensional artifacts.





- Ead Tool
EADitor is a new tool for working with EADs. EADitor is a free, open-source cross-platform XForms framework for creating, editing, and publishing Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids using Orbeon, an enterprise-level XForms Java application,...

- Social Networks And Archival Context Project
The Social Networks and Archival Context Project (SNAC) sounds interesting. Leveraging the new standard Encoded Archival Context-Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF), the SNAC Project will use digital technology to ?unlock? descriptions of...

- Encoded Archival Descriptions Tool
RLG has released the EAD Report Card, download it for free and check your EADs.This Web application is the first automated program for checking the quality of your EAD encoding. Created by popular demand, the tool supplements RLG's award-winning RLG...

- Union Bugs
The Proposal for Inclusion of Union Label Description In Bibliographic and Archival Cataloging Guidelines is available. This is information that may be useful to rare book catalogers. It deserves to be included in a description of an item if it will aid...

- Archival Description
The ISAD(G) General International Standard Archival Description, is available in PDF.The purpose of archival description is to identify and explain the context and content of archival material in order to promote its accessibility. This is achieved by...



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