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The Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Roundtable will meet at the SAA meeting in Birmingham on Saturday morning August 24th from 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. The program for this year's meeting will be an overview and update on the activities of the Archivist's Workbench project, kicked off in San Diego in February of this year. The project seeks to create "a workbench or suite of digital tools that would facilitate collection and management of information about archival materials at the various points along the life cycle of those collections. Ideally, a workbench would facilitate integration of the disparate filing systems and databases now used in most archival repositories for collecting and managing their archival information, and it would enable more efficient production of various outputs, ranging from encoded finding aids for use by end users to internal administrative reports." More information on the project is available at: http://www.diglib.org/collections/eadmtg1rep.htm The EAD Roundtable meeting will include updates on the world of EAD including the EAD Help Pages, EAD Working Group, EAD Cookbook, and RLG's EAD activities. Elections will also be held for vice-chair, and we are still accepting nominations and volunteers for this position. Please email Stephen Miller at [log in to unmask] or Gina Minks at [log in to unmask] We look forward to seeing you at this year's meeting! EAD Roundtable Agenda 2002 Welcome 8:00 - 8:05 Updates 8:05 - 8:25 * EAD Help Pages Website - Tim Young/Stephen Miller * EAD Working Group - Kris Kiesling * EAD Cookbook - Michael Fox * RLG - Merrilee Proffitt Elections 8:25 - 8:35 Program 8:35 - 9:20 Archivist's Workbench Project * Brad Westbrook - Overview of project and recent activities including the February meeting of the Archivist's Workbench working group * Elizabeth Shaw - Report on planning for second meeting of the Archivist's Workbench working group * Kelcy Shepherd - Implementing the Archivist's Workbench for testing at the Five Colleges Digital Archives Project New Business 9:20-9:30 * Announcements * Q & A Stephen Miller Director, Digital Library of Georgia University of Georgia Main Library 4th Floor Athens GA 30602 Ph: (706) 583-0213 Email: [log in to unmask]