EAD Tool Part 1.mp4

I am the Senior Archives Advisor for the History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. One of my responsibilities for the past couple of years has been to work with our Church History Library team to develop tools to improve access to the extensive holdings of our library, which includes published library materials and extensive archives and manuscript holdings.

We have opened our new Church History library catalog to the public. It is built upon two Ex Libris products: Aleph for the catalog and Primo for discovery. In addition, I am responsible for a new tool for the creation and delivery of finding aids.

We began the development of the EAD database as an improved, web-centric, public access tool. We had expected to use available EAD creation tools for authoring and editing each EAD finding aid. We soon found that we could develop an EAD tool with a single user interface, both for the staff (those who create, edit, and approve archival finding aids) and for researchers (those who will search and browse the finding aids).

The administrative view has been in production now for many months. The public view will be released within a few months. Until then, I have produced two YouTube videos to illustrate how the tool works. This one, EAD Tool Part 1, illustrates the public view. And the other, EAD Tool Part 2, shows the archivists' editor view.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Encoded Archival Description
• EAD
• Archives and Manuscripts
• Mormon Church
• LDS Church