Re: [ARSCLIST] EAD and Audio Archives

["Vallier, John" <jvallier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Farris: We are about a year into making EAD finding aids for our 
collections. I highly recommend EAD as both a collection management 
tool and a destination for researchers (our UCLA Digital Library has 
developed an online EAD template which has enabled us to do this).  We 
have only a few finding aids mounted at this point, but if you want to 
check them out follow the link below to our home page and then select 
"click here to search select finding aids at the Online Archive of 
California." We will also be embedding streaming audio and video links 
within the finding aids over the next few years.  -John
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John Vallier, Archivist
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/
On Oct 27, 2005, at 9:00 PM, ARSCLIST automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:13:51 -0400
> From:    "Farris G. Wahbeh" <fwahbeh@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: EAD and Audio Archives
> I posted this question on the EAD listserve and I thought I'd post it 
> on here as well in hopes to get
> some insight and feedback on the feasibility of using EAD within an 
> audio archive setting.
> Our collection comprises three significant audio collections.  For 
> example, one collection holds
> 195 CD's that were reformatted from original materials.  That 
> particular collection includes 202
> artists/groups/ensembles, totalling to an approximate amount of 300 
> performers.  Since we are at
> a beginning stage in implementing archival standards, would EAD be an 
> appropriate tool for our
> particular collections?