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Posts related to the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project
Emerging research on personal interest researchers in archives
Archives Month 2023 is coming to an end in the US. If you want to get caught up on our posts celebrating the interesting things we learned about archives and …
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Digitization and access in archives
In my last Archives Month post, I reflected on the shift in practice related to allowing researchers to use cameras in special collections reading rooms, and what this has meant …
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Cameras in the reading room and the arc of change in archival practice
One of the cool things about reaching mid-career is that I’ve now been around long enough to see patterns of change in the profession. I’ve recently been working on a …
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Science fiction, Smaug’s Lair, and the powerful skill of archivists
October is Archives Month in the US. All month, lots of different archives will be highlighting the cool, the weird, the interesting, and the important things in their collections and …
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Archives and Special Collections / Libraries Archives and Museums / Metadata / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis
Now available! Research findings from Building a National Finding Aid Network
I am excited to be sharing the outcomes of a major research project in service of archives, archival discovery, and archives researchers. For the last 2.5 years, OCLC has led …
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Progress on building a National Finding Aid Network
The following post is part of a series highlighting OCLC Research’s efforts for the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project. You can view the rest of the series …
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Encoded Archival Standards: a view from ArchiveGrid and NAFAN research
On August 3, Chela Weber and I had an opportunity to participate in the joint annual (and this year virtual) meeting of the Society of American Archivists Encoded Archival Standards …
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NAFAN focus groups: Aligning participant selection with project values
This post is one in a series detailing the research work OCLC is contributing to the Building a National Finding Aid Project (NAFAN). You can see the rest of the …
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Connecting EAD headings to controlled vocabularies
Are EAD content headings associated with controlled vocabularies, or can they be? For names of people, families, organizations, subjects, places, and genre forms, the EAD Tag Analysis conducted by OCLC …
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