Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Every year we provide our contributors and potential contributors with free training on how to use our EAD editor software.
The days are great fun and we really enjoy the chance to meet archivists from around the UK and find out what they are working on.
The EAD editor has been developed so that archivists can create [...]
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
I have been reading with interest the post and comments on Mark Matienzo’s blog: http://thesecretmirror.com. He asks ‘Must contextual description be bound to records description?’
I tend to agree with his point of view that this is not a good thing. The Archives Hub uses EAD, and our contributors happily add very excellent biographical and [...]
Archival Management Software: A Report for the Council on Library and Information Resources. Lisa Spiro, January 2009.
The Archives Hub is not in the business of archival management systems, but this report provides a useful perspective on what systems have to offer, and also the current state of cataloguing, albeit essentially in the US. Recommended reading. [...]
The Archives Hub has been putting itself about a bit over the past couple of years…by which I mean that we are becoming distributed. We have around 150 contributors, who provide us with their archive descriptions, and through the medium of EAD and our search and retrieval software, Cheshire, we make these available for cross-searching.
The [...]
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
I’ve just come across the Smithsonian Archives of American Art online collections. This is a wonderful source, with all the archives digitised and available to view. The navigation available on the site is great, with an image viewer allowing the user to scroll through images, enlarge them and navigate through the folders. It [...]
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
The Archives Hub is holding a training day for contributors and potential contributors on Tuesday 25 September here at the University of Manchester.
The day is free and will run from 10.30 to 16.00 with a free lunch provided.
This is a great opportunity for anyone who would like to know more about EAD and about creating [...]
In yesterday’s keynote at the International Standards for Digital Archives conference Bill Stockting took a retrospective look at the development and methodolgy of the A2A programme led by The National Archives (TNA) in the UK. A2A (Access to Archives)
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Blogger knows I’m in Germany – the interface is all in German. Neat. And just a teeny bit creepy.
I’m here with Jane at the International Standards for Digital Archives conference. Lots of presentations about EAD, EAC, METS and related standards. I was talking about the Spokes software yesterday (the EAD day). The [...]
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Yesterday I was in London helping to run an ‘Introduction to EAD’ training day on behalf of the Data Standards Group and the London Region of the Society of Archivists. The last exercise I did with the delegates was to look at a randomly-selected set of resources based around EAD finding aids (courtesy of [...]
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Many Hub contributors have invested in proprietary XML editing software such as XMetaL or Oxygen, but if you haven’t yet done so you might be interested in a free program called XML Copy Editor. It comes in Linux and Windows versions and makes it easy to validate EAD files. It’s also easy [...]
