You may be interested in the discussion and recommendations of the NWDA
for encoding of Oral histories, to be found here:
http://www.orbiscascade.org/index/cms-filesystem-action?file=nwda/tools/nwdabpg2005oralhistappendix.pdf
Creighton Barrett wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> 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?
>
> I'm working with a collection of folk songs that really needs to be
> described at the 'track level.' Each recording has been duplicated
> several times and has a great deal of accompanying documentation (i.e.
> lots of contextual information). There are also duplicates at several
> different institutions. This means that each individual recording
> (originally on acetate discs) is now in possession of a unique set of
> accession numbers and describing the collection even at the item-level
> (the reels and cassettes) is ineffective. I know this could be done
> with a database of some sort, but the collection also needs a finding
> aid. Would it be best to just build a database and then construct an
> XML finding aid using data from the database? Has anyone done this sort
> of thing? At what point is there too much information in a finding aid?
>
> I know I've asked a lot, but I'd appreciate any feedback.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Creighton Barrett
> MLIS Candidate (2009)
> School of Information Management
> Dalhousie University
>
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