Nuts and bolts: Implementing descriptive standards to enable virtual collections

Journal of Archival Organization

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 81-92

  Landis, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archival descriptive standards; Description; End users; ISAD(G); Oac; Online Archive of California; Virtual collections

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447136534     PISSN: 15332748     EISSN: 15332756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J201v01n01_07     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Anne Gilliland-Swetland, “Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities: The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment,” Society of California Archivists Annual Meeting, Santa Rosa, 27 April 2001.
2. Bradley D. Westbrook, “Prospecting Virtual Collections,” Journal of Archival Organization, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2002), 73-80.
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9. Anne Gilliland-Swetland, “Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities: The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment,” Society of California Archivists Annual Meeting, Santa Rosa, 27 April 2001.
10. Bradd Burningham, “Attitudes of the Canadian Research Community Toward Creating and Accessing Digitized Facsimile Collections of Historical Documents,” Computers and the Humanities Vol. 33 (December 1999), 409-419. The data studied by Burningham was a by-product of a collection-content survey by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions.
11. The Online Archive of California (available at http://www.oac.cdlib.org/) is a collaborative effort involving the libraries of the University of California and numerous other academic, government, and public libraries; museums; and historical societies in the state of California. OAC is managed by the California Digital Library (available at http://www.cdlib.org), which is in the process of designing and imple-menting a new systems architecture for the OAC. The author is a member of the Online Archive of California Working Group.
12. Information on MOAII is available at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MOA2/. The OAC is embarking on a process to adopt the more recently developed Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS; available at http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/), which is an extension of the work done on MOAII, as its encoding standard for all digital object metadata.
13. Bradley D. Westbrook, “Prospecting Virtual Collections,” Journal of Archival Organization, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2002), 73-80.
14. Information available at http://www.luna-imaging.com/insight.html.
15. Michael Fox, “Stargazing: Locating EAD in the Descriptive Firmament,” Journal of Internet Cataloging, Vol. 4, Nos. 3/4 (2001), 61-74.
16. ISAD(G) is available from the International Council on Archives. See the ICA web site at http://www.ica.org/ong/ica/index.html.
17. Michael Fox, “Stargazing: Locating EAD in the Descriptive Firmament,” for a detailed discussion of the distinctions between these concepts.