Next generation finding aid

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• • Verwijderde gebruiker
  • 1207800360

  Een mededeling over archiefinventarissen in de vorm van een Wiki. Zojuist ontvangen bericht via de EAD list: "Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 07:36:20 -0700 From: Shannon Bohle Subject: Re: dreaming of EAD I have already created EAD finding aids in MediaWiki. I have also created EAD finding aids that have been distributed via RSS. WikiEAD: http://archivopedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_finding_aid. RSSEAD: http://www.bloglines.com/search?q=%22Sample+EAD+Finding+Aid+for+RSS%22&ql=en&s=f&pop=l&news=m. If you are interested in learning more, please contact me via email off list ONLY regarding copyright and other issues. Shannon Bohle" Ik heb er nog niet mee geëxperimenteerd, maar het ziet er uitdagend uit. Helaas is het sjabloon dat meegeleverd wordt geen valide EAD. Er moet dus wel e.e.a. aan geknutseld worden. Groeten, Henny van Schie

  
• • Verwijderde gebruiker
  • 1207897380

  Dit onderwerp staat uiteraard ook bij onze collega's in de VS in de belangstelling. Hieronder 2 reacties. ------------------------------ "Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:27:47 -0400 From: Michele R Combs Subject: Re: dreaming of EAD > From: Encoded Archival Description List > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:01 AM > Subject: dreaming of EAD > So let me dream: what would it take to make an EAD finding aid as mutable as a wiki? It is > possible to envision a platform where an EAD finding aid can be accepting of user-generated > content? Could there ever be a more wiki-like interface with EAD? I'm interested in this concept of "next generation finding aids" as well. Once you have finding aids in EAD you have immensely increased your power and control over how you use and/or display the content, and there are almost infinite ways you could take advantage of this. I'd like to see the ability to click a button and re-sort finding aid content in different orders -- by date, by box number, etc. Or what if, down the side of a finding aid, there was a "currently researching this collection" list where researchers could post their contact information if they wanted, to encourage cross-fertilization between researchers? I'm not sure how much you could change the finding aid itself without losing its basic purpose (to be a list of material in a collection) but having it XML means you can surely integrate it with other features. We've been kicking around the idea of a user interface to our collections in which EAD finding aids are only part of it, with other parts being user comments, links to (or thumbnail display of) digitized material, annotation capability for figures, displaying tag clouds, etc etc etc (kind of like the polar bear expedition site). The key question though is "What new capabilities will be truly useful to the researcher?" For example, if you want your site to include user-generated content, it's not enough just to add the technical capability. You also have to a) get users to visit your site and b) get them interested enough to add something, which hopefully results in c) getting them to come back repeatedly and look at what others have added. "If you build it, they will come" does not necessarily apply on the Internet. I'm sure at one time or another we've all experienced the annoyance of a site that indulged in technology for its own sake, with lots of bells and whistles but way too complicated/busy, with too many fancy features that no one uses, etc. What kind of studies have been done on what researchers themselves want in a finding aid or, more broadly, in an archives or special collections website? (My guess: they want everything fully digitized and freely accessible online!!) Michele Combs. Librarian for Manuscripts and Archives Processing. Special Collections Research Center. Syracuse University Library." ------------------------------ "Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:48:26 -0500 From: Dean DeBolt Subject: Re: dreaming of EAD I've been mulling the question of permitting user-generated content into online EADs. Frankly, my first feeling is no. I have been embroiled in too many disputes among families, amateur genealogists, and others who want to put information into our finding aids, claiming they are wrong, or the facts are wrong or some such. I've even had people dispute the publication dates of books even if I could show them the title page and copyright notice. On the other hand, I can see where users could generate their own indexes, guides, and incorporate them into an EAD, but I guess the question is monitoring. If user content first has to be reviewed locally before posting. That might solve the 'wikipedia" that I see in my mind. Dean DeBolt University Librarian, Special Collections John C. Pace Library, University of West Florida" ------------------------------ Groeten, Henny van Schie

  
• • Christian van der Ven
  • 1207903200

  Leuk discussie. Alleen lopen er wel twee dingen door elkaar, want nu lijkt het net alsof EAD en gebruikersparticipatie onlosmakelijk aan elkaar verbonden zijn, wat gelukkig niet zo is. Wel leuk om te zien nu hoe die discussie zich van de eventuele mogelijkheden van EAD laat afbuigen richting de wenselijkheid van de mogelijkheden, het omgaan met de uitwerking daarvan enzovoort.