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Using Captions And Controlled Vocabulary To Describe Visual Materials As An Alternative To Digitization, Eric Willey
Using Captions And Controlled Vocabulary To Describe Visual Materials As An Alternative To Digitization, Eric Willey
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
This article describes an Illinois State University Research Grant funded project which created newspaper style captions and controlled vocabulary terms for visual materials. These materials were not intended to be digitized, and a guide separate from the finding was created including that metadata to improve access. The collection described consisted of materials donated by Lois Lenski, who donated her collection to institutions across the United States. Student workers were hired with grant funds to provide the metadata, and difficulties, successes, and outcomes encountered during the project are described..[1]
[1] Eric Willey, et al. “Guide to the Graphic, Scrapbook, and …
Book Reviews, Joshua Kitchens, Erin Lawrimore, Pamela Nye, Cheryl Oestreicher, Martin T. Olliff, Amanda Pellerin, Kay Strahan
Book Reviews, Joshua Kitchens, Erin Lawrimore, Pamela Nye, Cheryl Oestreicher, Martin T. Olliff, Amanda Pellerin, Kay Strahan
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Reviews
Participatory Archival Research And Development: The Born-Digital Access Initiative, Alison Clemens, Wendy Hagenmaier, Jessica Meyerson, Rachel Appel
Participatory Archival Research And Development: The Born-Digital Access Initiative, Alison Clemens, Wendy Hagenmaier, Jessica Meyerson, Rachel Appel
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
In an effort to advance the professional discourse around establishing best practices for access to born-digital archival collections, we designed a multi-phase, mixed-methods initiative, begun in 2014, that aimed to identify gaps and challenges in existing access methods and identify plans for how cultural heritage organizations hoped to improve access practices in the future. Over the course of our collaboration, our goals quickly evolved beyond the scope of collecting and publishing a static data set. We were inspired by models of research in practice, participatory action research, and research and development to translate our results into action by using the …
Chain Of Custody: Access And Control Of State Archival Records In Public-Private Partnerships, Sarah E. Carlson
Chain Of Custody: Access And Control Of State Archival Records In Public-Private Partnerships, Sarah E. Carlson
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
As I write this, Ancestry.com is a central party in a lawsuit with the organization Reclaim The Records, citing that it, a private corporation, received preferential priority and access to public records before individual patrons of the public in Freedom of Information requests for genealogical records.[i] Concern that public records may move into private hands demarcates an increasingly digital realm of record-keeping and public history. As companies and the public jockey for access to records in a race for access – one open and the other annexed behind a paywall – the blatant corruption is alarming. Yet, public records …