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-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Ethan Gruber
Sent: 15 May 2009 19:12
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Encoded Archival
, 2009 10:05 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums
Hi,
I'm a developer in a library that deals with a lot of special
collections
objects. I've dealt with traditional museum-type objects, such as
ancient
coins
Gruber
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:05 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums
Hi,
I'm a developer in a library that deals with a lot of special
collections
objects. I've dealt with traditional museum-type objects
] On Behalf
Of Ethan Gruber
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:05 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums
Hi,
I'm a developer in a library that deals with a lot of special
collections
objects. I've dealt with traditional
Hi,
I'm a developer in a library that deals with a lot of special collections
objects. I've dealt with traditional museum-type objects, such as ancient
coins and the challenges in providing access to them online. I used Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) to describe them quite robustly in XML.
-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Ethan Gruber
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:05 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Encoded Archival Description in museums
Hi,
I'm a developer in a library that deals with a lot of special collections
objects. I've
Ethan,
I am not sure how widely used it is currently, but there was a
project some years ago that you might look into called the Museums
and the Online Archive of California (MOAC) project
(http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/classic), which started out to
encode museum collections using EAD.
