At 03:41 PM 27-04-08, you wrote:
>Can anyone provide examples of EAD-based finding aids and/or
>catalogs that offer highly detailed item-level
>descriptions? Audiovisual collections would be especially
>useful. Is anyone using EAD to, for example, describe (rather than
>simply list) the tracks on an individual audio reel? How about
>including multiple accession numbers related to a track?
The James Madison Carpenter collection has been catalogued using EAD
for track-level information of the sound recordings. The public form
of our work can be seen at http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/carpenter/.
The Carpenter collection is rather large resulting in an EAD instance
that totals over 15 MB. While the whole document is not practical to
serve over the web, we have developed in-house stylesheets and tools
that we use daily. Last week we met with folks at the American
Folklife Center at the Library of Congress where the original
documents are held. Our EAD implementation provides a very helpful
basis for the sharing of data which will lead, we hope, to the online
presentation of the entire collection: sound recordings, images and
manuscripts. We have included many of the sorts of links you
describe, though not all display on the public site. I'd be happy to
share more details of our work if anyone is interested.
Bob Walser
Robert Young Walser - [log in to unmask]
The James Madison Carpenter Project
http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/carpenter/
Office telephone 1-612-374-4364
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