Description
Book SynopsisArchivists and librarians: here is the perfect introduction to archival description and its latest technological applications! Encoded Archival Description on the Internet introduces a variety of perspectives that will assist you in deciding whether EAD is an appropriate tool in a given context and, if it is, provides the knowledge you need to begin planning, organizing, and implementing projects and programs in your library. This informative book:
- shows how archival description differs from bibliographic description
- presents EAD as a standard and shows its relation to the MARC format and other standards
- discusses implementation issues
- examines museum use of EAD
- gives you an overview of the history of the development of EAD
- explores the reference implications of EAD
- discusses implications for nontraditional users
- examines the concept of union-universal access to archivesEAD version 1.0 was formally re
Table of Contents
Contents
- Introduction
- Archival Description: Content and Context in Search of Structure
- The Development and Structure of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Document Type Definition
- Stargazing: Locating EAD in the Descriptive Firmament
- Archival Cataloging and the Internet: The Implications and Impact of EAD
- The Online Archive of California: A Consortial Approach to Encoded Archival Description
- Consortial Approaches to the Implementations of Encoded Archival Description (EAD): The American Heritage Virtual Archive Project and the Online Archive of California (OAC)
- Providing Unified Access to International Primary Research Resources in the Humanities: The Research Libraries Group
- EAD and Government Archives
- Cross-Community Applications: The EAD in Museums
- Encoded Finding Aids as a Transforming Technology in Archival Reference Service
- Popularizing the Finding Aid: Exploiting EAD to Enhance Online Discovery and Retrieval in Archival Information Systems by Diverse User Groups
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
