Friday, May 2, 2014

The making of a finding aid.

Having come across the Here and There blog elsewhere on this site, one of her posts caught my attention in relation to the investigation into EAD I've been doing lately.

In this case, it's her description of creating a finding aid for historical records about a N.J. landfill. In it, she goes through her process of encountering the problem and creating the aid. I thought it was interesting that she mentioned a different content standard which she used for finding aids. Apparently the standard DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), uses bits of MARC and bits of EAD encoding in it. It was interesting to read about and, best of all: she provides a link to the finished aid.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the mention. I'm glad the post was helpful to you.

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