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MIT’s SIMILE Project: Innovations in Metadata Interaction and Analysis
Well-formed Data’s post on Exhibit led me to explore what was available from MIT‘s Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments (SIMILE) project. I took a little time to...
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NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant News: Visualizing Archival Collections
As of August 22nd, 2008 it was official. There is even a blog post over on the NEH Office of Digital Humanities updates page to prove it. The University of Maryland was granted a Level I NEH Digital...
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Susa 2.0: Max Evans’ Finding Aid Prototype
As part of his portion of our SAA 2008 panel in San Francisco, Max Evans demonstrated his prototype for a new way to view an EAD finding aid. You can download his presentation from the SAA’s site:...
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ArchivesZ Data Challenges: Oregon State University Archives
The Oregon State University Archives has generously contributed 356 of their finding aids in EAD format for use in the development of version 2 of ArchivesZ. This is my first post in a what will likely...
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ArchivesZ Data Challenges: Syracuse University Special Collections Research...
The Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center has also been so kind as to provide the XML source files for their finding aids for use in the ArchivesZ project. I loaded 572 finding aids...
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ArchivesZ Data Challenges: Princeton University
I received a zip file of 1,771 EAD encoded finding aids from the kind EAD enthusiasts at the Seely G. Mudd Manuscript Library. These finding aids came from five divisions within Princeton’s Library:...
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ArchivesZ Data Challenges: Utah Government Archives & Records Service
Gina Strack of the Utah State Archives and Records Service provided me with access to the XML of 1,196 EAD encoded finding aids. These EAD 2.0 XML files are a product of a grant funded project...
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ArchivesZ Data Challenges: Forest History Society
Amanda Ross, project archivist for the Forest History Society, sent me 57 EAD finding aids to include in the ArchivesZ project. These are the data challenges that the current data extraction script...
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ArchivesZ Data Challenges: University of Texas at San Antonio
Mark Shelstad, head of Archives and Special Collections at University of Texas at San Antonio, sent me a link to the TARO (Texas Archival Resources Online) page for UTSA’s Archives and Special...
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In case you haven’t seen this request via other channels, please consider supporting the research effort described below into how different organizations encode finding aids using EAD. As someone who...
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