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Encoded Archival Description Roundtable Meeting
From Saa2007
When: Wednesday, Aug. 29, 6-8 PM
Where: Fairmont Chicago, International Room (Level 2)
[edit] Agenda
I. Welcome and Chair Report
II. Reports and Updates
- SAA Council Liaison
- 2008 Program Committee
- TSDS Report
- EAD Working Group
- EAC Working Group
- RLG Programs
III. Presentation: “EAD and the Archivists’ Toolkit”
- A panel including members of the Archivists' Toolkit project team and an early implementer of the Toolkit will talk about the import of legacy EAD documents, the export of AT generated EADs, and the overall suitability of the application for archival description. Panelists will discuss how the AT import process supports diverse EAD encoding practices; how well the AT's record structure supports the description of archival materials; and the export of EAD documents, as well as several other standard metadata formats. Panelists are AT team members Arwen Hutt (Metadata Specialist) and Jason Varghese (Programmer, responsible for import and export functionality), as well as Dan Santamaria, Assistant University Archivist for Technical Services at Princeton University's Mudd Manuscript Library, an AT user.
IV. Vice Chair / Chair Elect Candidate Statements
See candidate statements included below
- Amelia Abreu
- Mary W. Elings
- Jill Katte
V. Presentation: "Opening Archives in Florida: Overview of Florida's Statewide EAD Training and Support Program”
- In 2005, the Florida Center for Library Automation initiated a statewide "Opening Archives" training program for libraries, museums, archives and other repositories in the state to learn and use EAD. Chuck Thomas will summarize the program's goals, accomplishments, partnership model, and issues that have surfaced with a growing network of organizations creating EAD finding aids throughout the state.
VI. Election Results
Minutes will be available at the EAD Help Pages: [1]
[edit] Candidate Statements
- Amelia Abreu is a first year doctoral student at the University of Washington Information School, where she is studying classification and description structures and practices, with particular interest in archives and cultural heritage materials. From 2005 to 2007 she was the Special Collections Archivist and History Subject Specialist at University of Houston Libraries, and has also worked at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin and as a project archivist. "At University of Texas and UH, I worked on large-scale EAD conversion and implementation projects, the latter of which I led. I also spearheaded the implementation of an open-source collection management system at UH. I believe that developing and furthering EAD is crucial for the future of access to archival materials. In serving on the EAD Roundtable, my particular interest is in promoting work towards metadata interoperability, and in highlighting innovative methods of production and delivery for EAD." Amelia has been a member of SAA since 2004. Outside of SAA, Amelia is a member of SSA, ALA, ASIS&T and REFORMA. She is a contributor to booktruck.org, a blog about libraries, archives and greater information issues.
- Mary W. Elings is the Archivist for Digital Collections at The Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley. At the Bancroft Library, Ms. Elings oversees all aspects of the digital collections including digitization of images, audio, and text; production of encoded and electronic text; creating EAD finding aids and METS digital objects; metadata standards; database development and management; grant and internal project management, including mass digitization; and online access strategies. Ms. Elings began working at The Bancroft Library in 1996 during the early years of EAD’s development where she focused on inclusion of digitized content within the EAD structure, as well as the development of METS digital objects. She has been active in the development of the UCB Library’s Project Control Database (webgenDB), a tool for creation of EAD and METS objects in use since 1995. Her interests in EAD now focus on challenging obstacles to implementation and making EAD more usable online. Ms. Elings also works as Adjunct Faculty for the Syracuse University School of Information Studies teaching an MLIS graduate course in digital collections.
- Jill Katte serves as Archivist for Metadata and Encoding at the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. She provides leadership and technical support for encoding activities and XML metadata creation for the Duke University Libraries, where she has worked since 2002. She has extensive experience with EAD, as well as with digital collections and with XSLT and XSL-FO style sheet development. She has been active in SAA as Web Liaison for the Privacy & Confidentiality Roundtable (2003-2007), and she contributes to both the NCEAD and the NCEAC working groups, which develop encoding standards and tools for North Carolina institutions state-wide. In 2005, Jill was awarded an NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellowship to fund her study on the archival implications of website content management systems. In addition to her work at Duke, she teaches the course "Archives and Technology" at North Carolina State University's Program in Public History. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an M.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[edit] Related Resources
EAD Help Pages - sponsored by the EAD Roundtable


