Collection Description Focus, Workshop 1
Collection Description Focus, Workshop 1
Discussion Group 3 : Collections, archives & EADCross-domain working is a reality : librarians using CLDs to improve access to archival holdings Subject-based "super-collections" CLDs as "sign posts" to more detailed, domain-specific descriptions Existing traditions of CLD under other names - "site records" etc CLD to disclose existence of huge numbers of uncatalogued items Use of EAD - flexible - can be used for range of material. N.B. use of EAD for non-archival collections does not "make them archival"! Content standards - AACR2 strict (too strict?); archival content standards typically loose Some standards still rooted in emphasis on print layout! Retrieval - keyword/free text vs controlled vocabularies Controlled vocabularies facilitate navigation - "canned searches" etc |
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