EAD at the Brooklyn Museum Library and Archives

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EAD at the Brooklyn Museum Library and Archives

• Henry W. Baker
• Professor Rubenstein
• LIS 697.4

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• Libraries and Archives
• Main Reference Library
• Wilbour Library of Egyptology
• Museum Archives
• 7,700 square-feet of collection material
• Their first digital project, using EAD and HTML
  The Goodyear Archive.

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• Everyone doing this kind of work is feeling
  their way through the process.

Deborah Whyte, Chief Archivist, BMLA
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• No prior thought of digital access.
• Trusting consultants.
• EAD to HTML did not work.
• Hand coding left them without a template.

Paris, France Paris Exposition entrance gate,
Place de la Concorde. Image ID 1979 Lantern
slide info Exhibition of 1900 monumental door
and Concorde Square. The Place de la Concorde.
The main entrance gate to the expostion by
architect Binet.
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• Digital projects require forethought.
• Expert advice isnt always expert.
• Boxed solutions were not the solution.
• Mistakes multiple as the system expands.

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Where to Get More Information

• Brooklyn Museum Libraries
• www.brooklynmuseum.org/
• XML Editor XSLT Debugger (Windows, Mac,
  Eclipse, Unix)
• www.oxygenxml.com/

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• www.mellon.org/
• View full presentation
• http//pratt.edu/hbaker/index.htm