Karin Bredenberg: Records creators - Use of EAC-CPF in Archives Portal Europe
Abstract
The APEnet project successfully established, within the Archives Portal Europe network, a common profile for the use of the international archival standard EAD (Encoded Archival Description) as a basis for central data conversion, validation, indexing and presentation. Work Package 4 (WP4) of the APEx project has sought to improve on this achievement by advancing the Archives Portal Europe’s specific standards and guidelines. More specifically, WP4 has been adapting the Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Person, Families (EAC-CPF) used for describing an authority. The main focus was on establishing a profile so that the EAC-CPF standard could be used in the Archives Portal Europe. This article tries to give some insight on the benefits of using EAC-CPF in the portal. It also presents the progress made and the work completed so far, together with some information about the implementation in the portal.
Doreen Kelimes: The eastern and north-eastern European archives between digitisation, Web 2.0 and social media
Abstract:
It can be stated that the Northern and Eastern European countries are working on comprehensive digitization projects. The transformation process in the late 1980s in Eastern Europe not only led to an opening of the borders, but favored the gradual access to the archives in the eastern and north-eastern European countries. The use of Web 2.0 and social networks, as a new form of public relations and interaction with the users is looking so far received from the archives only hesitantly. Today, Web 2.0 and social media, a new range of public relations enable cultural institutions to communicate with both national and international user. In addition, many cultural institutions grab the opportunity to present their collections digitally and push more and more projects. The first major projects, based primarily on the digitization of civil status documents and church records, also offer the opportunity to preserve this cultural heritage and protect. Here, rather dominated the "classic" version of the home page. As already mentioned, the eastern and north-eastern European archives worked primarily on various digitization projects, which included in particular the "online status" comprehensive civil status documents and church records.
Kerstin Arnold: EAD3 and the consequences of the new version
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Encoded Archival Description (EAD) has been undergoing a major revision during the last three and a half years. The current article is trying to shed a light on the aims of this revision, on the steps undertaken as well as on some of the changes envisaged with EAD3. The article thereby covers the activities of the Technical Subcommittee on EAD (TS-EAD) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) until early February 2014 when the EAD3 gamma has been made available for final comments by the EAD community. The last part of the article also provides a first evaluation of the expected impact of a possible move from EAD 2002 to EAD3 with the example of the Archives Portal Europe.
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