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Description Section Meeting

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Description Section Meeting Agenda

Friday, August 31, 2007 12-2pm

Contents

[edit] Welcome and Section Reports (10 min.)

  • Newsletter Editor: Michelle Light
  • Description Expo: Mark Matienzo
  • Chair: Jane Rosario

[edit] Reports from SAA Committees, Liaisons, and Related Groups (50 min.)

  • SAA Council Representative: Ben Primer
  • American Archivist Editorial Board
  • EAD Working Group: Kris Kiesling
  • ALA Committee on Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI): Kris Kiesling
  • DA:CS Working Group: Bill Landis
  • ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA): Mary Lacy
  • ICA Section on Professional Standards and Best Practices: Claire Sibille
  • Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards (TSDS): Chris Prom
  • Archivists Toolkit: Brad Westbrook
  • Encoded Archival Context (EAC) Working Group: Kathy Wisser
  • OCLC/Research Libraries Group: Jennifer Schaffner
  • OCLC: Susan Westberg
  • RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee Manuscripts Working Group: Diane Ducharme
  • Program Committee Report/Discussion of Potential Session Ideas

[edit] New Business (20 min.)

  • Election for New Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
  • Announcements
  • Archivists' Toolkit: Brad Westbrook
  • Archon: Chris Prom

[edit] Program (40 min.)

Context-Schmontext: Contextual Information Innovations in Archival Description

  • Peter Hymas, State Library of North Carolina
  • Dennis Meissner, Minnesota Historical Society
  • Daniel Pitti, University of Virginia
  • Katherine M. Wisser, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chair)

This panel will examine the role of contextual information in archival description and focus on the theory and implementation of the beta standard Encoded Archival Context (EAC). The panel will begin with a presentation from Meissner on the importance of context information in assisting description and access activities, including to solutions implemented prior to the development of the EAC standard. Wisser will follow with a general introduction to the EAC standard, including an overview of the structure and elements in the beta standard. Pitti will explore XML functionality built into the beta standard that can be leveraged by EAC projects. Hymas will conclude by discussing the NCBHIO project, which seeks to create a union EAC repository for North Carolina.

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