Finding finding aids on the world wide web

American Archivist

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 61-77

  Tibbo, Helen R ^a   Meho, Lokman I ^a  

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EID: 48749123256     PISSN: 03609081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.64.1.r655355304263464     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Steven L. Hensen, "The Use of Standards in the Application of the AMC Format," American Archivist 49 (Winter 1986): 32.
2. See, for example: Working Group on Standards for Archival Description, "Archival Description Standards: Establishing a Process for Their Development and Implementation," American Archivist 52 (Fall 1989): 448-61;
3. For NISTF see David Bearman, Towards National Information Systems for Archives and Manuscript Repositories: The National Information Systems Task Force (NISTF) Papers, 1981-1984, (Chicago, Society of American Archivist, 1987);
4. Richard H. Lytle, "An Analysis of the Work of the National Information Systems Task Force," American Archivist 47 (Fall 1984): 357-65.
5. For MARC AMC development see David Bearman, "Archives and Manuscript Control with Bibliographic Utilities: Challenges and Opportunities," American Archivist 52 (Winter 1989): 26-39;
6. Shelia H. Martell, "Use of the MARC AMC Format by Archivists for Integration of Special Collections' Holdings into Bibliographic Databases and Networks," (M.S.L.S. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991).
7. For standards for descriptive tools see Steven Hensen, Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts: A Cataloging Manual for Archival Repositories, Historical Societies, and Manuscript Libraries (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1983). 2nd ed. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1989).
8. Lyn M. Martin, "Viewing the Field: A Literature Review and Survey of the Use of U.S. MARC in U.S. Academic Libraries," American Archvist 57 (Summer 1994): 482. Lyn Martin presented selected results of this research in June 1993 at the State University of New York Librarians Conference in Binghamton, New York.
9. Daniel V. Pitti, "Encoded Archival Description: The Development of an Encoding Standard for Archival Finding Aids," American Archivist 60 (Summer 1997): 268-283;
10. Daniel V. Pitti, "Encoded Archival Description. An Introduction and Overview," D-Lib Magazine 5 (Nov 1999),.
11. Steve Hensen discusses how EAD is becoming part of the mainstream archival standards, building on NISTF's development of the MARC AMC cataloging form and his own Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts as a cataloging manual. Steven L. Hensen, "NISTF 2 and EAD: The Evolution of Archival Description," American Archivist 60 (Summer 1997): 284-96.
12. For further discussion of EAD as a descriptive standard, see also: Kris Kiesling, "EAD as an Archival Descriptive Standard," American Archivist 60 (Summer 1997): 344-54.
13. Helen R. Tibbo, "The Epic Struggle: Subject Retrieval from Large Bibliographic Databases," American Archivist 57 (Spring 1994): 310-26.
14. Robert P. Spindler, "Does AMC Mean 'Archives Made Confusing"? Patron Understanding of USMARC AMC Catalog Records," American Archivist 52 (Spring 1993): 330-41;
15. Susan L. Malbin, "Does AMC Really Mean 'Archives Made Confusing'? Retesting Patron Understanding," Technical Services Quarterly 16 (1998): 15-32.
16. See, for example, Michael D. Gordon and Praveen Pathek, "Finding Information on the World Wide Web: The Retrieval Effectiveness of Search Engines," Information Processing and Management 35 (March 1999): 141-180;
17. Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles, "Searching the World Wide Web," Science 280 (April 3, 1998): 98-100;
18. Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles, "Searching the Web: General and Scientific Information Access," IEEE Communications Magazine 37/1 (January 1999): 116-122;
19. H.V. Leighton and J. Srivastava, "First 20 Precision among World Wide Web Search Services," JASIS 50/10 (1999): 870-881;
20. Greg R.S., "On the Net: Internet Search Techniques and Strategies, Online 21/4 ( July 1997):
21. Greg R. S., "On the Net-More Internet Search Strategies," Online 22/5 (September 1998): 71-74,.
22. Greg R. S., "On the Net-Rising Relevance in Search Engines." 23/3 (May 1999): 84-86.
23. Greg R. s, "Internet Search Engine Update-New Search Features, Developments, and Content," Online 24/3 (May 2000):.
24. See for example, UCLA:
25. Widener University:
26. UC Berkeley;
27. estimated that the publicly indexable Web contained 320 million pages. In February 1999 this figure had grown to 800 million pages [Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles, "Accessibility and Distribution of Information on the Web," Nature 400 (July 8, 1999):107-109 (summary of article at: )
28. and as of February 2000 Search Engine Watch [www.searchenginewatch.com] estimated that there were one billion pages on the publicly-accessible Web.
29. Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles, "Accessibility," 107.
30. Dublin Core web site maintained by OCLC:.
31. Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles, "Accessibility and Distribution of Information on the World Wide Web," available at.
32. See also, Jon Bosak and Tim Bray "XML and the Second-Generation Web" Scientific American (May 1999): available at.
33. Fredric M. Miller, Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1990).
34. Alta Vista Excite;
35. Excite
36. Fast Search ;
37. Google ;
38. Hotbot
39. and Northern Light.
40. For additional search engine review sources see: CNET:.
41. "Search Engine Showdown".
42. Stephen E. Wiberley, Jr., Robert A. Daugherty, and James A. Danowski, "User Persistence in Scanning Postings of a Computer-Driven Information System: LCS," Library and Information Science Research 12 (October/December,1990): 341-53.
43. Seealso,StephenE. Wiberley, Jr.,andRobertA. Daugherty, "Users' Persistence in Scanning Lists of References," College and Research Libraries 49 (March 1988): 149-56.
44. See also, Marcia J. Bates, "The Fallacy of the Perfect Thirty-Item On-line Search," RQ 24 (Fall 1984): 43-50.
45. See for example: The California Digital Library's On-line Archive of California available at.
46. The OAC is a pilot project to develop a University of California-wide prototype union database of 30,000 pages of archival finding aid data encoded using the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) SGML document type definition. The University of Virginia and Duke University's have also mounted significant numbers of finding aids on the Web along with the Library of Congress.
47. and Duke University's
48. have also mounted significant numbers of finding aids on the Web along with the Library of Congress
49. For guidance in Web design, see: Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principle for Creating Web Sites (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999) available at
50. Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly, 1998;
51. and Darrell Sano, Designing Large-Scale Web Sites A Visual Design Methodology (New York: Wiley, 1996).