It's Complicated: Barriers to EAD Implementation

Yaco, Sonia

doi:10.17723/aarc.71.2.678t26623402p552

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“…Archivists in need found little support from campus IT units, which Yaco attributes to a general lack of understanding of the mission of the library and archives. 13 Participants in our discussion session "Working Together: Campus Digital Partnerships" reported that they often had to find creative, but not always efficient or sustainable, ways of working around IT in order to get technology-based projects done. They felt working with IT was not an option, usually because they had no formal relationship with IT and no means of establishing one.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working Together: A Literature Review of Campus Information Technology Partnerships

Exline

2009

Journal of Archival Organization

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This article reviews the recent literature about the essential but often uneasy alliances made between content experts (archivists and librarians) and technology experts. Differing professional cultures, misunderstandings of one another, limited abilities to envision change, and lack of support from top-level administrators are the most often cited reasons for the persistent difficulty in working together. Failure to collaborate may result in the marginalization or exclusion of content experts from projects where their professional skills are most needed. In spite of these problems, successful models for working together do exist. True collaborations are mutually beneficial, open opportunities for continuing relationships, and involve complex interpersonal connections. They are based on trust, mutual understanding, and respect for one another's skills and respective professions.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working Together: A Literature Review of Campus Information Technology Partnerships

Exline

2009

Journal of Archival Organization

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“…However it is unfair, as many authors did, to heap on EAD criticism that actually pertains to the deficiencies of the archival milieu at large. For instance, the subjective difficulty in appropriating EAD was and still is largely due to the lack of training (or interest) from archivists into computer matters (Shaw, 2001;Yaco, 2008;Dow, 2009). Lack of funding for the purchase of computers, software, training sessions, and other such spendings for the implementation of EAD cannot be seriously attributed to EAD itself either: technology always comes at a cost.…”

Section: Ddi and Eadmentioning

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Elaborating a Crosswalk Between Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for an Emerging Data Archive Service Provider

Peuch¹

2018

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Belgium has recently decided to integrate the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). The Social Sciences Data Archive (SODA) project aims at tackling the different challenges entailed by the setting up of a new research infrastructure in the form of a data archive. The SODA project involves an archival institution, the State Archives of Belgium, which, like most other large archival repositories around the world, work with Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for managing their metadata. There exists at the State Archives a large pipeline of programs and procedures that processes EAD documents and channels their content through different applications, such as the online catalog of the institution. Because there is a chance that the future Belgian data archive will be part of the State Archives and because DDI is the most widespread metadata standard in the social sciences as well as a requirement for joining CESSDA, the State Archives have developed a DDI-to-EAD crosswalk in order to re-use the State Archives' infrastructure for the needs of the future Belgian service provider. Technical illustrations highlight the conceptual differences between DDI and EAD and how these can be reconciled or escaped for the purpose of a data archive for the social sciences.

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“…In order to properly exploit annotations in the archival context we have to take into account the heterogeneous environment composed of digital archive systems and annotation systems which are often grounded on different methodological and technological approaches. The archival community has developed "content and data structure standards" [15] to facilitate the description, management and access to the archival resources; however, these standards can be difficult for archivists to use [19] and are often implemented in ways that can negatively affect their description activity [20]. Thus, there has been a proliferation of digital archival systems based on diversified descriptive methodologies and metadata; also from the annotation point-of-view a lot of research has been done that has led to the design and development of variegated annotation systems [4].…”

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Empowering Archives through Annotations

Ferro

Silvello

2013

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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The paper presents an integration and visualization service to enhance the use of annotations and to empower the role of the user and research community in the archival context. We show how this service allows us to address the interoperability between diversified digital archive and annotation systems. Furthermore, it propels the use of annotations to enhance the user experience and to exploit the archivists expertise both in the description and consultation phases.

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It's Complicated: Barriers to EAD Implementation

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Working Together: A Literature Review of Campus Information Technology Partnerships

Working Together: A Literature Review of Campus Information Technology Partnerships

Elaborating a Crosswalk Between Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for an Emerging Data Archive Service Provider

Empowering Archives through Annotations

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