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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 >