Reengineering finding aids revisited: Current archival descriptive practice and its effect on EAD implementation

Journal of Archival Organization

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 35-50

  Redding, Clay ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archival cataloging standards; Archival descriptive standards; Archival education; Data content standards; Data structure standards; Ead; Encoded archival description; Standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 71049194554     PISSN: 15332748     EISSN: 15332756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J201v01n03_03     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Encoded Archival Description Working Group of the Society of American Archivists. Encoded Archival Description Application Guidelines Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1999).
2. Dennis Meissner, “First Things First: Reengineering Finding Aids for Implementation of EAD,” American Archivist 60 (Fall 1997): 372-87.
3. Encoded Archival Description Working Group of the Society of American Archivists. Encoded Archival Description Application Guidelines Version 1.0, 39.
4. Christopher Prom, “Does EAD Play Well With Other Metadata Standards? Searching and Retrieving EAD Using the OAI Protocols,” Journal of Archival Organization, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2002), 51-72.
5. Richard J. Cox, “The American Archival Profession and Information Technology Standards,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 43(8) (1991): 573.
6. H. T. Hickerson, “Archival Information Exchange and the Role of Bibliographic Networks,” in A Sourcebook on Standards Information: Education, Access, and Development, ed. S. M. Spivak and K. A. Winsell (Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1991), 225.
7. Lisa B. Weber, “Educating Archivists for Automation,” in A Sourcebook on Standards Information: Education, Access, and Development, ed. S. M. Spivak and K. A. Winsell. (Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1991), 84.
8. Based on a review of programs from the SAA Annual Meetings from 1987-2001, the number of courses on data content standards totaled 4. Courses looking at both structure and content standards numbered 6 and almost disappeared after 1996. Structure courses alone totaled 10. There was one instance of a course centered on data value standards.
9. Carol Couture, “Education and Research in Archival Science: General Tendencies,” Archival Science 1 (2001): 165.
10. Encoded Archival Description Working Group of the Society of American Archivists. Encoded Archival Description Application Guidelines Version 1.0, 39.