Subject: Archival Resources -- a new RLG service
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:56:07 -0500
Message-Id: <v04011703b1f64c502609@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:56:07 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Archival Resources -- a new RLG service
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
August 12, 1998
NEW RLG SERVICE: "ARCHIVAL RESOURCES"
<http://www.rlg.org/demo/arr.html>
Following is an announcement from the Research Libraries Group about a new
fee-based service, "Archival Resources," that will provide union access to
finding aids from repositories throughout the world using the Encoding
Archival Description. Rather than mounting all finding aids on its own
server, RLG intends to provide a union index to finding aids distributed
around the Internet.
Institutions that have made material available to date include the
following (in addition to RLG's own Archival and Mixed Collections (AMC)
file that gives access to brief, high-level information for nearly half a
million collections of manuscripts and archives):
Brandeis University
Columbia University
Duke University
Harvard University
Library of Congress
Minnesota Historical Society
Public Record Office, United Kingdom
Stanford University
University of California at Berkeley
University of Durham
University of Iowa
University of Michigan
University of North Carolina
Yale University
There is an open invitation to try out this service for free until
September 1. To use the service you do not have to be a member of RLG.
Comments are actively encouraged and can be sent to Anne Van Camp at
<mailto: bl.ahv@rlg.org> or to Bruce Washburn at <mailto: bl.btw@rlg.org>.
David Green
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>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 98 08:25:19 PDT
>From: "Anne Van Camp" <BL.AHV@RLG.ORG>
>To: david@cni.org
>Subject: New RLG Archival Resources service - available for free trial
>preview
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New Archival Resources Access: August Preview
-- Single-point, integrated access to archival
collections' cataloging and full-text finding aids
-- Available on the Web through enhanced RLG Eureka system
-- Invitation to try out prior to September 1, 1998
The Research Libraries Group (RLG) would like to share information
about a new online resource and invites you to look at it.
To do so, go to the RLG Web site directory at
http://www.rlg.org/toc.html and click on the link under "Recent
Additions." (Use www.thames.rlg.org for access from the UK and
Europe; try www.ohio.rlg.org from other overseas locations.)
Archival Resources offers students, faculty, librarians, archivists,
and other scholars centralized, Web-based access to significant
primary sources located in repositories throughout the world. It
includes cataloging of collections of archives, manuscripts, oral
histories, rare books, and other difficult-to-locate materials,
_plus_ a continually growing set of finding aids -- the detailed
collection guides or inventories that reveal where a collection came
from, how it is organized, and what it contains.
These finding aids have been converted to online form and tagged
using the emerging standard for Encoded Archival Description (EAD),
an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
(Steps RLG has taken to help foster adoption of the EAD standard and
to foster archival research on the World Wide Web include its
Finding Aids SGML Training -- FAST -- workshops for members, receipt
of a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation grant supporting members'
finding aids conversion efforts, and an arrangement with Apex Data
Services, Inc. to provide quality text conversion and encoding of
finding aids.)
Archival Resources' content currently comes from institutions in
North America and the UK. Already a unique combination of
information from archives, universities, and the Library of
Congress, it will have additional finding aids when the service goes
into production in September, with continuing additions thereafter.
The cataloging in Archival Resources comes from RLG's Archival and
Mixed Collections (AMC) bibliographic file. The full-text finding
aids are indexed centrally at RLG but are not necessarily stored
there; some reside on an RLG server, others live on servers at
contributing institutions. The newest generation of the Eureka
searching interface enables users to work with both catalog records
and finding aids in a single search.
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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax
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