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LITA Mobile Computing Interest Group Meeting – Call for Participation
When: Monday, July 1st, 2013 – 3 – 4pm
Where: Palmer House Hilton, Chicago Room
The LITA Mobile Computing IG seeks 4-5 short presentations (approximately 15
minutes) on mobile computing for
We are pleased to announce the release of IR+ 2.2
Major Changes to IR+:
- Checksum-Checker to automatically check files within the repository
periodically
- Updates for Google scholar indexing
- Ability to auto share folders and sub folders
- Ability to
Hello friendly Borg,
Does anyone have anything thoughts about using EAD for finding aids vs. HTML?
Or are both going the way of the dinosaurs?
Thanks!
Rachel
Rachel Shaevel
Electronic Resources Cataloger
Technical Services/Catalog Department
Chicago Public Library
Harold Washington Library
Rachel,
EAD is just a metadata schema, which can be made to be read via html web
pages though xslt, or some scripting that pulls out the relevant field data
and makes it displayed nicer, usually in an HTML wrapper. So I guess it
would be helpful if you could elaborate on your question a bit more
My apologies if my question didn't make sense. I'm speaking as a cataloger,
not a coder. :) Basically we have some of our finding aids as just plain old
HTML pages, like this one:
http://www.chipublib.org/cplbooksmovies/cplarchive/archivalcoll/abbott_seng1.php.
The choices presented by
Hi Rachel-
If you encode your finding aids in EAD you will have much more flexibility
to do other things with them in the future, including conversion to HTML
and crosswalking to other metadata formats as needed. Highly recommended
over simply marking them up as HTML.
-Trevor Thornton
On Fri,
I am not an archivist, but my understanding is, the term finding aid is used in
museums or archive collections. EAD, like Matt said, is a xml-based metadata
schema and can be used to describe finding aids. In other words, EAD is not
finding aids, but finding aids in EAD format are, just in
Create EAD files to describe the collections in your archives because EAD is
the MARC of the archives world. There are no two ways about it. --ELM
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 08:25:05PM -0400, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
Create EAD files to describe the collections in your archives
because EAD is the MARC of the archives world. There are no two ways
about it. --ELM
That might not be the best way of putting it given the full extent of
the
