Encoded finding aids as a transforming technology in archival reference service

Journal of Internet Cataloging

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 187-197

  Szarya, Richard V ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archival reference service; Archives; EAD; Encoded Archival Description; Finding aids; Users

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348976157     PISSN: 10911367     EISSN: 15287017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J141v04n03_11     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. The best collection of these papers is in the American Archivist 60, nos. 3-4 (Summer and Fall 1997).
2. The enormous challenges facing archivists are well-defined by David Bearman in "Archival methods, " Archives and Museum Informatics Technical Report 3. no. 1 (Spring 1999).
3. See for example, the discussion of use and user studies (most of which have still not been undertaken) suggested by Lawrence Dowler in "The role of use in defining archival practice and principles: a research agenda for the availability and use of records. " American Archivist 51, nos. 1-2 (Winter and Spring 1988): 74-86.
4. The best example of this type is the Archival Resources service offered by the Research Libraries Group (www. rlg.org/arrhome.html). Other union finding aid systems are based on all of the encoded finding aids contributed by participants residing on a common server.
5. Daniel Pitti's article "Encoded archival description: the development of an encoding standard for archival finding aids. " American Archivist 60, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 268-283, is the best introduction to the development history of EAD.
6. The first step toward such standards will be the forthcoming Application Guidelines for EAD which will be issued later this year by the Encoded Archival Description Working Group of the Society of American Archivists.
7. Dennis Meissner, "First things first: Reengineering finding aids for implementation of EAD. " American Archivist 60, no.4 (Fall 1997): 372-387.