This article provides an overview of the literature related to metadata in the context of
archives and museums. This article has several goals: to outline current practices, theories …

This article reports on a quantitative categorical analysis of metadata elements in the Dublin
Core, VRA Core, REACH, and EAD metadata schemas, all of which can be used for …

Eleven years after the release of Encoded Archival Description (EAD), archivists' reactions to
it range from wholehearted acceptance to outright rejection. In the middle of this spectrum …

Innovation diffusion theory explains different rates of adoption of new technologies as a
consequence of potential adopters' perceptions of the innovation's advantages compared to …

Increasingly, XML applications are appearing on the World Wide Web, from e‐commerce to
information management. In the case of libraries and archives, XML enables more flexible …

ABSTRACT Encoded Archival Description (EAD) was adopted as the first standard for
encoding finding aids using archival description in 1998. Since then, rapid changes in …

Today, as digital information storage, access and retrieval technologies are becoming the
expected norm, there is a wealth of research literature appearing about such technologies …

There has yet to be a consensus about what an ideal user interface might look like for online
archival finding aids, and certainly no proposed model has been adopted by the archival …

This paper examines the results of a usability study for finding aids from the Special
Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University. In 2005, the Special …

Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to honor one of the
great sons of Illinois, Senator Stan Weaver, who after selflessly donating forty-five years of …