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Many thanks to the 170 people who joined us for the webinar today, on the EAD analysis from ArchiveGrid, and the work that Princeton has done to improve their EAD encoded finding aids. We had a lively discussion following the presentation and will post a list of questions and answers on our website, along with links to the webinar on YouTube and in iTunes.

 

In the mean time, I wanted to share the link to the WebEx recording which you can view at your leisure along with links to resources mentioned during the webinar.

 

Thanks to Dan Santamaria from Princeton for an excellent presentation, and to Bruce Washburn from OCLC Research for helping with notetaking and question answering!

 

Webinar: https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=66315737&rKey=ea8f79b63eb82cee

 

Here's the OCLC Research EAD tag analysis article in Code4Lib Journal: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8956

What is ArchiveGrid?  It's a freely available discovery system for archival materials provided by OCLC Research.  http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid

An article on EAD Tag Usage by Kathy Wisser and Jackie Dean has been published in the current issue of the American Archivist:
http://archivists.metapress.com/content/x4h78gx76780q072/

 

"Taking Our Pulse: The OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections and Archives" by Jackie Dooley and Katherine Luce: http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2010/2010-11.pdf


DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) is a set of rules for describing archives, personal papers, and manuscript collections, and can be applied to all material types. It is the U.S. implementation of international standards (i.e., ISAD[G] and ISAAR[CPF]) for the description of archival materials and their creators.
http://www2.archivists.org/standards/DACS

 

DACS Single-level Optimum level description -- more info here: http://www2.archivists.org/standards/DACS/part_I/chapter_1

What is FRBR?  Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.  Read more about it here, including a description of "FRBR user tasks": http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF

 

The Princeton University Library Finding Aids site: http://findingaids.princeton.edu/

What are XQuery and XSLT?  Languages for searching (XQuery) and transforming (both) XML documents.

Documentation for the EAD Revision work (aka EAD3) can be found on the SAA website:
http://www2.archivists.org/groups/technical-subcommittee-on-encoded-archival-description-ead/ead-revision

 

What is SKOS?  Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a W3C recommendation designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured controlled vocabulary. SKOS is part of the Semantic Web family of standards built upon RDF and RDFS, and its main objective is to enable easy publication and use of such vocabularies as linked data.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Knowledge_Organization_System

 

What is RDF? The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model. It has come to be used as a general method for conceptual description or modeling of information that is implemented in web resources, using a variety of syntax notations and data serialization formats.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework


What is Solr?  Solr is an open-source search platform from the Apache Lucene project. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solr

 

What is RelaxNG?  RelaxNG (REgular LAnguage for XML Next Generation) is a schema language for XML.  It's a relatively simple way to specify a pattern for the structure and content of an XML document.  More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RelaxNG

 

"Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get Into the Flow" by Ricky Erway and Jennifer Schaffner, for OCLC Research: http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2007/2007-02.pdf

The Metadata IS the Interface: Better Description for Better Discovery of Archives and Special Collections, Synthesized from User Studies http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-06.pdf

 

VIAF: the Virtual International Authority File: http://viaf.org/

 

Exist XML open source database: http://exist-db.org/exist/apps/homepage/index.html

 

 

Merrilee

 

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