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The Historical Hazards Of Finding Aids, Gregory Wiedeman
The Historical Hazards Of Finding Aids, Gregory Wiedeman
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
Archivists have traditionally understood access through finding aids, assuming that—through creating them—they are effectively providing access to archival materials. This article is a history of finding aids in American archival practice that demonstrates how finding aids have negatively colored how archivists have understood access. It shows how finding aids were originally a compromise between resource constraints and the more familiar access that users expected, how a discourse centered on finding aids hindered the standardization of archival description as data, and how the characteristics of finding aids as tools framed and negatively impacted the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard. It questions …
Xquery For Archivists: Understanding Ead Finding Aids As Data, Gregory Wiedeman
Xquery For Archivists: Understanding Ead Finding Aids As Data, Gregory Wiedeman
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
XML has long been an important tool for archivists. The addition of XQuery provides a simple and easy-to-learn tool to extract, transform, and manipulate the large amounts of XML data that archival repositories have committed resources to develop and maintain – particularly EAD finding aids. XQuery allows archivists to make use of that data. Furthermore, using XQuery to query EAD finding aids, rather than merely reformat them with XSLT, forces archivists to look at finding aids as data. This will provide better knowledge of how EAD may be used and further understanding of how finding aids may be better encoded. …
Archives And Records Management: A Long History, Tomaro I. Taylor, Gail Donovan
Archives And Records Management: A Long History, Tomaro I. Taylor, Gail Donovan
Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications
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Basic Archives Processing Manual For Student Employees And Volunteers, Tomaro I. Taylor
Basic Archives Processing Manual For Student Employees And Volunteers, Tomaro I. Taylor
Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications
A step-by-step guide for the arrangement and description of archival collections. Developed for individuals new to archival processing in a special library setting.
Archon User Guide For Usf Special Collections, Tomaro I. Taylor
Archon User Guide For Usf Special Collections, Tomaro I. Taylor
Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications
User guide for Archon 2.2. "Basic Archives Processing Manual for Student Employees and Volunteers" provides step-by-step instructions for Archon 3.13 rev-1.
Archives, Manuscripts And Personal Papers: A Processing Manual, Tomaro I. Taylor
Archives, Manuscripts And Personal Papers: A Processing Manual, Tomaro I. Taylor
Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications
A technical manual for arranging, describing and promoting archival and related collections. Developed for professionals and pre-professionals working in special collections/archives in an academic library setting.