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Michele,
I would have reply, but I was out of the office mid-July (not at the beach, sadly) and I must have missed your email. As a department, I would say we don't really use <revisiondesc>. However, I have a few specific cases where I can point to using it. We have a number of artificial collections here (culinary pamphlets, publication collections, and few other odd cases). Since most of these have occasional, if not frequent, editions, I use <revisiondesc> to track when I've added new materials (which I can usually trace to an accession record in Archivists' Toolkit, based on the date). I usually only include a note about what was generally added (new subseries and/or items, for example), since a detailed note could run very long. I don't use <revisiondesc> for fixing typos, adding links, or the like. At this point, we haven't been updating names enough to make this an issue.
Kira
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-----Original Message-----
From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michele R Combs
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:20 AM
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Subject: Re: Revision tracking
Wow, the silence on this has been deafening. Not one single reply, even offlist. Does nobody track revisions in their EAD, or is everybody but me lying on a beach somewhere, sipping a drink with a tiny umbrella in it?
Michele
-----Original Message-----
From: Michele R Combs
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 10:58 AM
To: Encoded Archival Description List ([log in to unmask])
Subject: Revision tracking
For those of you who track revisions to your EAD finding aid using <revisiondesc>, what guidelines do you follow as to when a change to the file qualifies as a "revision" ? For example, fixing a typo IMO doesn't qualify as a revision, whereas adding a bunch of new material obviously does. And then what about all the stuff in between, like updating a <persname> due to LCNAF changes?
Michele
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Lead Archivist
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University
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