Title
The Endangerment of Trees: A Provocative Look at the Future of the Finding Aid
Meeting name
EAD@10
Meeting location
San Francisco, CA
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-31-2008
Abstract
The author contemplates the future of the archival finding aid on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Encoded Archival Description, a standard for encoding archival finding aids for use in an online environment. The author posits that standards for multi-level, hierarchical description in archival finding aids may conflict with how web search engines index finding aids as well as the requirements for describing digital-born materials of the future.
Keywords
Archival description; Cataloging of archival materials; EAD; Encoded Archival Description (Document type definition); Finding aids; Information organization; Internet searching; Search engine optimization; Search engines
Disciplines
Archival Science | Cataloging and Metadata | Library and Information Science
Repository Citation
Light, M.
(2008, August).
The Endangerment of Trees: A Provocative Look at the Future of the Finding Aid.
Presentation at EAD@10,
San Francisco, CA.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/libfacpresentation/124