What Megan and I are interested in is providing contextual access to
media within a larger collection that may already have or will have an
EAD finding aid OR for a handful of collections that are comprised
primarily of av materials.  We are creating item records for digitized
av items in our own database, so that we can 1) have metadata for a
digital file, and 2) have something to link to when we are able to
provide online access.  However, we also want to consider taking an
archival approach to the material, by providing standardized access to
an av "collection", or to av materials within a larger document
collection.  

Barbara D. Aikens 
 
Chief, Collections Processing
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Ph: 202-633-7941
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Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:40 AM
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Subject: Re: Collections with artifactual materials

From my digital collections perspective, I think that the following is
an exceptional example of that:
http://coins.lib.virginia.edu/

I haven't seen the site being publicized yet, but it's exceptionally
well done and created completely with open-source software.  Hopefully
someone involved with that project can chime in and mention more about
it, but the site already has some good documentation included, such as
this:
http://coins.lib.virginia.edu/documentation/uva_coins_bpguidelines.pdf

It's somewhat odd for me to see EAD used to apply structural metadata in
a METS-like way (albeit without METS's inherent flexibility), but it
seems to have worked well for this project (and the information could
easily be crosswalked if that was ever needed).

I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head, but I'm
interested in seeing what else pops up,


Mark Custer



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Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:56 AM
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Subject: Collections with artifactual materials

Dear listserv members,

Along the lines of Megan McShea's request, I would like to see 
examples of museum three-dimensional artifacts described in EAD 
finding aids and linked to those descriptions, as well as how these 
are encoded.

Also, do any of you have these objects described in a collection 
management database, such as PastPerfect, and can these descriptions 
be linked to finding aids?

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Burt Altman, CA
Archivist/Librarian
Florida State University Libraries
Special Collections Department