Best practices training: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 10:12, 3 April 2008

Best Practices training was held at the Utah State Archives on March 7, 2008.

Slides from the LSTA Best Practice training are available here.
Topics not covered in the training slides are covered in the Best Practice Guidelines themselves, available at the UMA Report Card site.

For institutions using an XML editor or creating EAD by hand, you can use the native features in Excel and Word to speed up the process. A Flash movie has been created to walk people through data entry within a container list.
Sample flowchart for the encoding and conversion of legacy EAD documents prior to aggregation, with resources available for each step.

LSTA project sample flowchart.

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-For institutions using an XML editor or creating EAD by hand, you can use the native features in Excel and Word to speed up the process. A [http://archives.state.ut.us/containerlist/containerlist.html Flash movie] has been created to walk people through data entry within a container list.
+===Training Materials===
+Best Practices training was held at the Utah State Archives on March 7, 2008.
+* Slides from the LSTA Best Practice training are available [[media:UMA_EAD_Best_Practices_Training.pdf|here]].
+* Topics not covered in the training slides are covered in the Best Practice Guidelines themselves, available at the [http://umaead.lib.byu.edu UMA Report Card site].
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+===Additional Resources===
+* For institutions using an XML editor or creating EAD by hand, you can use the native features in Excel and Word to speed up the process. A [http://archives.state.ut.us/containerlist/containerlist.html Flash movie] has been created to walk people through data entry within a container list.
+* Sample flowchart for the encoding and conversion of legacy EAD documents prior to aggregation, with resources available for each step. [[Image:LSTA_flowchart.png|left|thumb|LSTA project sample flowchart.]]